Things Students Must Do and Must Take Actions For As A Doctoral Scholar
Major Parts of Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods and Techniques
Terms and Techniques in Dissertation Study and Experience
Things Researchers Do
Odds and Ends of Academic Research and Scholarly Work in Higher Education
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This is what the student must do to fundamentally survive the dissertating process.
What is "attentively listening to the faculty advisor and following his/her guidance?”
100
This is primarily what the researcher looks for in the analysis and findings for qualitative research.
What are "common themes and threads?”
100
This term sounds like the name of a famous historically Black university in the Deep South.
What is "Sampling (Grambling)”
100
Researchers use these to frame or test their research questions, assumptions or inquiries.
What is "a hypothesis?”
100
This term describes a concept map, like the theory it represents, and is a picture of the territory the researcher wants to study.
What is "a conceptual framework?”
200
These are the things the student must do to keep track of planning and documenting the dissertating process.
What is "developing a logic model, an information data matrix, and a calendar with timelines?”
200
This is primarily what the researcher looks for in the analysis and findings for quantitative research.
What is "statistical significance?”
200
This is term sounds like the word to describe someone taking a nap after studying dissertation research.
What is "testing (resting)?”
200
This national foundation is often referenced as a repository for research findings in the sciences.
What is "the National Science Foundation?”
200
This term describes a visual display of the current working theory – a picture of what the researcher thinks is going on with the phenomenon under the study.
What is "a conceptual framework?”
300
These three personal attributes describe the characteristics of the doctoral student scholar as a researcher
What are "integrity, honesty and credibility?”
300
This is also what the researcher looks for in the analysis and findings for quantitative research.
What are generalizations?”
300
This term sounds like the word credible and begins with a “V”.
What is "variable?”
300
This is institute is often referenced as a repository for research findings in the arts.
What is "the National Humanities Institute?"
300
This term is used to describe a research that includes both qualitative and quantitative methods.
What is "mixed methods?”
400
These describe ways to gauge progress, performance and productivity during the dissertating process.
What are "benchmarked indicators with targeted milestones?”
400
This is also what the researcher looks for in the analysis and findings for qualitative research.
What is "contextualization?”
400
These types of experiences are examined during phenomenological studies in dissertation research.
What are "lived experiences?”
400
This federal department is often referenced for as repository for research findings in schools and colleges.
What is "the U.S. Department of Education?”
400
This term sounds like the word comparative and is often used to describe the result from researchers being storytellers.
What is "narrative?”
500
What the doctoral student scholar and the faculty member must to during the dissertating journey
What is "maintaining the highest of standards?”
500
This term is used to describe the participants in the research study.
What are "human subjects?”
500
This term describes a kind of theory and sounds like the word used to put a doctoral degree diploma on a wall in the past tense.
What is "grounded theory?”
500
These words sound like the words deja vu and is used to describe academic journals published by fellow academicians within an academic discipline.
What is "peer review?”
500
By filling in the blanks for the second word in the following, the research understands the true essence and importance of scholarly research: greater_______; bigger_______; and larger________