Paper+3+Mark+Scheme

=** 1. Explain considerations involved before conducting the semi-structured interviews in this study. [10 marks] **= **Explain**: The command term “explain” requires that candidates give a detailed account, including reasons, for the considerations that the researcher could have taken both before conducting the semi-structured interview in this study.
 * Relevant methodological AND ethical considerations should be discussed and might include:


 * Methodological**


 * Recording the interview: decisions about whether to use a tape recorder or taking notes when interviewing.
 * Transcription of the data: decisions about how to analyze the data (for example, inductive content analysis). Relevant explanation could be that inductive content analysis is very useful when analyzing large amounts of data in order to discover strategies used by the young students to construct their profiles.


 * Ethical**


 * confidentiality since participants were discussing their personal feelings about treating obese patients.


 * You may refer to the considerations taken by the researcher in the study in the stimulus material and/or considerations that could have been taken. Both approaches are equally acceptable.
 * Responses may explain a smaller number of considerations in order to demonstrate depth of knowledge, or may explain a larger number of considerations in order to demonstrate breadth of knowledge. Both approaches are equally acceptable.
 * Responses that do not address methodological considerations and provide only ethical considerations will be awarded up to a maximum of 5 marks.

=**2. Describe how the researchers in this study could use inductive content analysis (thematic analysis) on the interview transcripts. [10 marks] **=

**Describe**: give a detailed account of the process as it relates to this stimulus.
 * Example**: Inductive content analysis generally consists of two stages: analysis and interpretation of the data.


 * Analysis**:


 * a systematic search for themes in the transcript that emerge after several readings.
 * Subsequent readings to find further themes
 * Connect the themes in meaningful ways to see how they relate to each other and thereby establish hierarchies of themes.
 * Continue the readings until there is no more information in the data.

**Interpretation**:


 * Make a summary table of subordinate themes and higher-order themes.
 * The interpretation of the data is based on the identified themes.
 * You should also mention that it is important that the researchers are able to understand how the participants themselves think.
 * The researchers’ interpretations are then used to form the basis for the findings of the research report.
 * Knowledge and understanding of inductive content analysis must be applied to the stimulus material in order to gain high marks.

=** 3. To what extent can findings from this study be generalized? [10 marks] **=
 * Although the number of doctors in the sample was small, sufficient data has been produced to make some generalization possible.
 * The sample indicates that the doctors were:
 * from various cultural backgrounds
 * approximately balanced in gender
 * with a broad range of ages covering much of a practitioner´s career.
 * Their responses were sufficiently similar for the researchers to identify raw data themes that were common to the doctors.

You must justify the extent to which generalization occurs for example it would be legitimate to claim that:
 * findings from this study could be applied to the population of family practitioners from:
 * various backgrounds
 * both genders
 * Wide age range
 * Because: the sample and the general population of this professional group would have similar characteristics.


 * High marks are awarded based on the relevant arguments for the extent to which generalizations are possible.
 * No marks will be awarded if it is claimed that no way of generalization is possible, regardless of reason
 * Or that the claim that generalization is limited to London or the U.K.