A statement in quantitative research in which the investigator makes a prediction about the outcome of a relationship among characteristics.
What is a hypothesis?
100
This is a measure on some characteristic that is assessed for participants in an experiment after a treatment.
What is a posttest?
100
The process in which the researcher gathers stories, analyzes them for key elements of the story, and then rewrites the story to place it in a chronological sequence.
What is restorying?
100
This is the number of standard deviations by which the raw score is above or below the mean.
What is the Z score?
200
A type of independent variable that researchers measure for the purposes of eliminating it as a possibility, but it's not a central variable of concern in explaining the dependent variable or outcomes.
What is a control variable?
200
These are problems that threaten our ability to draw correct inferences from the sample data to other persons, settings, treatment variables, and measures.
What are threats to external validity?
200
This is a guiding perspective or ideology that provides structure for advocating for groups or individuals in the written report.
What is a theoretical lens?
200
A conclusion that the results of a study would be unlikely if there were no association in the larger group you want to know about.
What is statistically significant?
300
This kind of research uses research questions instead of hypotheses.
What is qualitative research?
300
In this type of experiment, all participants in a single group participate in all experimental treatments, with each group becoming its own control.
What is a repeated measures design?
300
A form of narrative study in which the researcher writes and records the experiences of another person's life.
What is a biography?
300
A type of error in which you get a statistically significant result when in fact the research hypothesis is not true.
What is a Type 1 error?
400
In this kind of sampling, you choose every "nth" individual in the population until you reach your desired sample size.
What is systematic sampling?
400
This is a threat to internal validity when only the experimental group receives a treatment, therefore inequality exists.
What is compensatory equalization?
400
Stories gathered by the researcher through interviews or informal conversations which provide raw data for researchers to analyze.
What are field texts?
400
A hypothesis-testing procedure in which the population variance is unknown.