lessoon one vocabulary
what is data?
what is an interview?
an interview in which a trained
what is case study?
intensive study of a group incident, or comunity.
what is a quantitative variable?
a characteristic that can be measured numerically.
what is an investigation?
investigating an action taken to influence the outcome of a particular conection, event, or process.
what is a survey?
research methods where people answer questions.
what is a close ended question?
questions a person must answer by checking something from s limited set of risponses.
whhat is praticepant observation?
a case study in which the resercher becomes a member of the group been studied.
what is a quantitative variable?
a characteristic that is defined by a presence or abundance in a quality.
what is an intervention?
interesting action taken to influence the outcome of a particular event, condition, or process.
what is a population?
a group of people with certain specific characteristics.
what is an open ended question?
a question that a person must answer in their own words.
what is causation?
the belief that events occurred in periodic order and that one event causes another.
what is an independent variable?
a characteristic that causes something to occur.
what is a correlation?
a measure of the relationship between two variables.
what is a sample?
a group of people that represents a larger population
what is sacundary analysis?
using pre collected information for data and reserch perpouses
what are multiple causations?
the belief that events occur as a result of several factors working in a combination.
what is a deoendent varible?
a characteristic that reflects the change.
what is a spirious corlation?
a relationship between two varibles that is activly created by a third factor.
what is a representative sample?
a sample that accurately reflects the characteristics of a population as a whole.
what is field reserch?
reserch that takes place in a natural (non labaratory) setting.
what is a variable?
a characteristic that subjects to change.
what is an intervening variable?
a variable that changes the relationship between a dependent and an independent variable.
what is a scientific mathood?
the recognization and formulation of a problem the collection of data through observation and experement and the formulation and testing of a theory and a hypopisis.