Describes the procedures for conducting a study, including when, what, how, and from whom data will be collected.
What is research design?
100
This section of a research study is where you will find information about participants, settings, instruments, and procedures.
What is Methodology?
100
These types of quantitative research designs seek to establish causal relationships.
What is experimental designs?
100
This refers to the issue or concern that is the central focus of a research study.
What is the research problem or question?
100
This is a noun that describes a key factor examined in most quantitative research.
What is a variable?
200
What separates a true experimental design from a quasi-experimental design.
What is random assignment
200
This summarizes the research study and is usually found at the beginning
What is the abstract?
200
These types of quantitative research designs have no direct control over causation
What is non-experimental designs?
200
This desribes how a variable is being conceptualized in a given study.
What is an operational definition?
200
This variable is affected by the intervention.
What is dependent variable?
300
This type of research design involves a statistical measure of the degree of relationship between two or more variables
What is correlational research?
300
In quantitative studies, you are likely to find statistical language, tables, and charts in this section of the study.
What is the Results or Findings section?
300
This type of design seeks to establish a causal link between an intervention and outcome but does not include a random assignment of subjects to groups
What is quasi-experimental research?
300
This is an informed prediction about the relationship between two variables in a study.
What is an hypothesis?
300
This is a variable controlled by the researcher - in experimental designs it is the intervention
What is the independent variable?
400
A qualitative research design that examines a bounded system in depth.
What is case study research
400
This section of a research study grounds the research in a broader context demonstrating how it extends or clarifies knowledge in a particular area.
What is the Literature or Review or Review of Literature?
400
This research design is used in a study that examines the effect of extrinsic rewards on the motivation of randomly assigned children to play groups.
What is experimental?
400
This statement predicts no "statistically significant" relationship between two variables in a study.
What is the null hypothesis?
400
These variables, which a researcher attempts to eliminate, can "mess up" a study.
What is extraneous variables?
500
This approach to research combines quantitative and qualitative methods.
What is mixed methods designs?
500
In most education journals this section uses APA format and lists sources cited in the paper.
What is the Reference section?
500
Quantitative research that uses an experimental or quasi-experimental design is likely to fall in this research paradigm.
What is positivist/ post-positivisit?
500
This is a function of research that is concerned with the application and development of research-based knowledge about a particular field of practice.
What is applied research?
500
These variables can interact with the independent variable to affect research outcomes. Researchers anticipate and seek to account for these types of variables in their study designs.