Quantitative
The estimated year that quantitative research began.
What is 1250 AD?
Qualitative research requires this primary type of data.
What is narrative data?
The time period the mixed methods approach to research first emerged.
What is the mid-to-late 1900s?
A quantitative design that compares two different groups in the same parameters over one period of time.
What is a cross-sectional study?
The scientific fields in quantitative research originally rooted, specfically chemistry and physics.
What are the physical sciences?
The type of logical reasoning that qualitative research builds its premises on.
What is inductive reasoning?
The assumption that governs claims about what is knowledge in mixed resarch methods.
What is pragmatic assumptions?
A qualitative research method focused on exploring an intact cultural group in its natural environment over a long period of time.
What is an ethnography?
The paradigm maintained by quantitative research, where the research is measured independent of the researcher.
What is the empiricist paradigm?
The setting that qualitative research naturally occurs to allow high involvement in real experiences.
What is natural setting?
Mixed methods research was developed as an extension, rather than a replacement, to show that quantitative and qualitative approaches can be this.
What is complementary?
Method when a researcher explores in depth a program, an event, an activity, a process, or one or more individuals.
What is a case study?
The three classifications of quantitative research.
What are descriptive, experimental, and causal comparative research?
The discipline required of researchers to set aside all prejudgments in a situation.
What is bracketing?
The goal for researchers using the mixed methods approach.
What is to draw from the strengths and minimize the weaknesses of the quantitative and qualitative research approaches?
Quantitative design that involves nonrandom selection of study participants, which limits control and can sacrifice validity
What is a quasi experimental design?
The standard test statistic for correlation reported with a decimal numeral, named after Karl Pearson.
What is the Pearson Correlation Coefficient (or "r")?
The three coding steps in a grounded theory data analysis.
What are open coding, axial coding, and selective coding?
A way to gather numerical data through questions and narrative data through interviews.
What is a survey and an interview?
Type of study that examines human communication using frequency tables and statistical analysis.
What is content analysis?