General
An organized and systematic way to find answers to questions
What is research?
Questions that make respondents answer with a simple yes or no
What are dichotomous questions?
Types of sources
What is primary and secondary?
A method by which data is collected
What is a data collection instrument?
The types of research
What is primary and secondary?
Questions that allow the target audience to voice their feelings and opinions freely.
What are open-ended questions?
Original or first-hand accounts or evidence
What is primary source?
A research design used for studying social and behavioural sciences of a subject or group of subjects
What is ethnography?
An example of a quantitative method of data collection: document review OR questionnaire OR in depth interview
What is a questionnaire?
Based on information findings taken from observation, interviewing and tracing patterns of behaviour
What is qualitative research?
Which of the following would be most suitable as the intended audience of a questionnaire about electricity prices? children, homeowners, teachers or students
What is homeowners?
Memoirs, buildings, diaries, autobiographies
What are examples of primary sources?
a framework of protocols and procedures created to conduct research with a scientific approach using two sets of variables.
What is experimental research?
What is a case study?
Types of qualitative research
what is ethnographic or historical?
Questions that force the respondents to answer according to the beliefs of the surveyor
What is a leading question?
Determining the trustworthiness of the information by checking different sources to ensure the similarities of data
What is reliability?
Five criteria of the CRAAP test
what is Currency, relevance, authority. accuracy, purpose?
Type of research that requires the use of survey to feed the statistical analysis
What is quantitative research?
What is respondents are more likely to answer short questionnaires?
Determining if a source is credible by checking for flaws
What is validity?