Theory
An attempt to explain an event without any assumptions or clearly established relationships about it
What is a educated guess?
A collection of research findings and evidence used to support the relevance of an observation or phenomenon.
What is the Literature Review?
The broad research orientation including philosophical assumptions, data collection methods, and interpretation.
What is Research Methodology?
A survey item that provides both a psychological and a numerical scale for ratings.
What is a Likert Style Item
A research tool for organizing, analyzing, and decision making,
What is Statistics?
A set of statements that attempts to explain a phenomenon or observation
What is a theory?
A resource frequently used to locate and filter articles for research.
What is the Library?
The research approach that stresses the analysis of numeric data, and large sample sizes.
What is quantitative research?
The most prominent feature of Likert Scales.
What is balance scale options?
Any measurable factor that has an effect on phenomenam
What is a vairable
Creswell says you can visualize how a theory operates by using this metapor.
What is the Rainbow Bridge?
A single layer approach that centrally locates a key idea and hooks related ideas to it.
What is a Concept Map?
Research understanding thru the participants' aims, perspectives, assumptions: and how their everyday life is grasped.
What is Qualitative Epistemology?
An apparent double negative Likert Stem item.
What is stating the stem in the negative.
A data value denoted by the use of a capital letter.
What is a Raw Score
The process of explaining; researchers use a term to express why happen?
What it is a cause?
Organizing the literature review according to the date of the studies.
What is the Chronological Organization of the Literature Review?
The common, overall strategy to carryout a research study.
What is the Research Design?
A response option scale that begins at zero and ascends to some maximum value point.
What is a Linear Scale?
The statistical expression (X-M) =
What is a Deviation Score?
Dr. Gene said that causes must precede effects, when the effect is observed the cause must also be present, and there can be only one cause.
What are the Three Rules to establish cause?
Using the conclusions found in research articles as a way to organize the literature review.
What is Denouement?
What are Research Controls
A scale that assess attitudes, beliefs, and opinions.
What is a Likert Scale?
An extreme score value that distorts a distribution from normality.
What is an Outlier?