General tendencies in the data (mean, mode, median), the spread of scores (variance, standard deviation and range), or a comparison of how one score relates to all others.
What is descriptive statistics?
100
This design provides an opportunity for the researcher to predict scores and explain the relationship among variables.
What is correlational research?
100
Describing a research problem through a description of trends or a need for explanation of the relationship among variables.
What is quantative research?
100
Statements in quantitative research in which the investigator makes a prediction or a conjecture about the outcome of a relationship among attributes or characteristics.
What is a hypothesis?
100
Specifying an issue to study, developing a justification for studying it, and suggesting the importance of the study for select audiences that will read the report.
What is identifying a reasearch problem?
200
Analyzing data from a sample to draw conclusions about an unknown population.
What is inferential statistics?
200
A systematic, qualitative procedure used to generate a theory that explains, at a broad conceptual level, a process, an action, or an interaction about a substantive topic.
What is grounded theory design?
200
A tool for measuring, observing, or documenting quantitative data.
What is an instrument?
200
Statement that advances the overall direction or focus for a study.
What is a purpose statement?
200
Six steps
What is the number of steps in the process of research?
300
A score that appears most frequently in a list of scores.
What is mode?
300
Procedures in quantative research in which investigators administer a survey to sample or to the entire poplulation of people to descibe the attitiudes, opinions, behaviors or characteristics of the population.
What is survey research?
300
Exploring a problem and developing a detailed understanding of a central phenomenon.
What is qualitative research?
300
An attribute or characteristic that is dependent on or influenced by the independent variable.
What is a dependent variable?
300
Past literature or practical experiences of the researchers does not adequately address the research problem.
What is a deficiency in the evidence?
400
A procedure for making decisions about results by comparing an observed value of a sample with a population value to determine if no difference or relationship exists between the value.
What is hypothesis testing?
400
Qualitative research procedures for describing, analyzing, and interpreting a culture-shared groups, shared patterns of behavior, beliefs and language that develop over time
What is ethnographic research?
400
A key concept, idea, or process studied.
What is central phenomenon in quantitative research?
400
Researchers attempt to establish a likely cause-and-effect relationship among variables
What is probable causation?
400
Literature reports by the individual(s) who actually conducted the research or who originated the ideas.
What is primary source literature?
500
A calulated score that enables a researcher to compare scores from different scales
What is a standard score?
500
Researchers describe the lives of individuals, collect and tell stories about people's lives, and write narratives of individual experiences.
What is narrative research?
500
Investigator relies on statistical analysis of the data.
What is quantitative research?
500
An attribute or characteristic expressed in an abstract, general way.
What is a construct?
500
A style guide that offers academic authors guidance on various subjects for the submission of papers to the publications of The American Psychological Association.