Correlational/Causal-Comparative/ or Experimental Research?
Descriptive Statistics
Qualitative Methods
Wild Card
100
The two primary ways to collect survey data.
What are interviews and questionnaires?
100
Is this a Correlational, Causal-Comparative, or Experimental research question?
"Does the intervention increase coping skills?"
Experimental
100
The type of relationship shown by a scatterplot showing dots that are close to forming a line going from upper left to lower right.
What is a strong, negative relationship?
100
The process of listening to audio from an interview and typing it verbatim into a computer.
What is transcribing?
100
The independent and dependent variables from the study that showed that:
High school dropouts tend to earn lower salaries at age 25 than high-school completers.
What is Independent Variable = graduation status, Dependent Variable = Salary
200
Categorical data (e.g. gender).
What is nominal data?
200
Is this a Correlational, Causal-Comparative, or Experimental research question?
"Is there a relationship between aptitude for math and language skills?"
Correlational
200
The skewness of data whose mean is much higher than the mode (the high point of the data is to the left).
What is positively skewed?
200
A researcher's role when (s)he is observing and taking notes in a situation but also taking part in the activities with the participants of the study.
What is a participant observer?
200
The population of the following study: A researcher wishes to determine whether people with high blood pressure can reduce their blood pressure by following a particular diet. He randomly selects 152 men and 150 women to participate in the study.
What are people with high blood pressure?
300
A type of survey question in which the respondent indicates their level of agreement or disagreement with a series of statements.
What is a Likert scale?
300
Is this a Correlational, Causal-Comparative, or Experimental research question?
"Are there gender differences in students’ SAT math scores?"
Causal-comparative
300
The range and the mode of the data: 50, 54, 57, 57 , 61, 88, 90, 91, 91, 91, 93, 96, 106
What is Range = 56 and Mode = 91?
300
The final step of an Action Research study.
What is action planning (change)?
300
The part of the research proposal in which the participants are described.
What is the Method?
400
The main benefit of cross-sectional survey designs, as opposed to longitudinal designs.
What is speed/convenience?
400
Is this a Correlational, Causal-Comparative, or Experimental research question?
"Is having higher self-esteem associated with having a higher GPA?"
Correlational
400
The best measure of central tendency to report for the data: 100, 100, 98, 98, 95, 94, 93, 92, 92, 91, 89, 89, 89, 42
What is the median?
400
Research that is conducted by practitioners to improve practice.
What is Action Research?
400
A way to improve the credibility of qualitative research by ensuring all steps are well documented.
What is establishing an audit trail?
500
The type of survey research that involves the same group and the same sample over time.
What is a Panel Survey?
500
Is this a Correlational, Causal-Comparative, or Experimental research question?
"Is there a difference in school attendance rates based upon school size (small compared to large)?"
Causal-comparative
500
The best relative score of the following: A score of 85 on a psychology test (where scores have a mean of 90 and a standard deviation of 10) or a score of 45 on an economics test (where scores have a mean of 55 and a standard deviation of 5)?
What is the 85 on the Psychology test?
500
A method for ensuring confirmability of research findings by using multiple sources of data for comparison and verification.
What is triangulation?
500
Jordan’s study examines the benefits of extra tutoring on mathematics achievement. Some of the students in the control group notice that the tutored students are improving and so they form a study group of their own in order to improve their grades. This is an example of…
What is Compensatory Rivalry (or Reactive Arrangements) - a threat to the validity of the experiment.