This section of a research article is where you will find information about participants, settings, instruments, and procedures.
What is Methodology?
100
In an experimental study, this variable is affected by the intervention.
What is a dependent variable?
100
Three types of validity in quantitative research.
What are internal validity, external validity, and measurement validity?
100
This type of systematic inquiry (research) does not rely on numerical data or statistical analysis.
What is qualitative research?
200
This ethical requirement assures that prospective human subjects will understand the nature of the research and can knowledgeably and voluntarily decide whether or not to participate.
What is informed consent?
200
This is a summary of the research article and is usually found at the very beginning.
What is the abstract?
200
This is a variable controlled by the researcher - in experimental designs it is the intervention
What is an independent variable?
200
This refers to the consistency of a measure.
What is reliability?
200
The component of a research paradigm that deals with ethical concerns.
What is axiology?
300
If a researcher reveals identifiable information about a participant in her study, she has violated this ethical principle of respect.
What is privacy and confidentiality?
300
In quantitative research articles, you are likely to find statistical language, tables, and charts in this section of the study.
What is the Results or Findings section?
300
A tentative prediction about the relationship between one or more independent and dependent variables
What is a hypothesis or research hypothesis?
300
A measure or instrument that is able to predict something it should theoretically be able to predict has this type of validity.
What is predictive validity?
300
This component of a research paradigm refers to beliefs about what is knowable about reality.
What is epistemology?
400
A report summarizing the ethical principles and guidelines for research involving human subjects that was issued in 1978.
What is the Belmont Report?
400
This section of a research article grounds the research in a broader context and cites multiple sources.
What is the Literature or Review or Review of Literature?
400
This is a prediction that there is no relationship between two variables in a study.
What is the null hypothesis?
400
This type of non-statistical measurement validity relies on what appears to be reasonable.
What is face validity?
400
A research paradigm characterized by the ontological belief that there is an objective reality that is guided by universal principles and is also dynamic.
What is post-positivist (post-positivism)?
500
Respect for persons, beneficence, and justice
What are the 3 core principles of ethical human subjects research?
500
This section comes at the end of a research article and lists sources cited in the paper.
What is the Reference section?
500
If a researcher measures the effect of study time on student GPA, this is the dependent variable.
What is GPA or grade point average?
500
Strategies to select a research population that reduce sampling error and increase the generalizability of a study.
What is probability sampling?
500
These strategies produce research samples that may or may not represent the population.
What are nonprobability sampling methods/techniques?