The method used to describe, explain, predict, and/or control phenomena.
What is the scientific method?
100
The type of research most likely to be used in the classroom.
What is action research?
100
An instrument to collect data that describes one or more characteristics of a specific population.
What is a survey?
100
The top right-hand corner of each page.
What is where do page numbers appear?
100
The type of research where researchers are more likely to construct their review after starting their study.
What is qualitative research?
200
The formal, systematic application of the scientific method to the study of educational problems.
What is educational research?
200
Research involving past events as it relates to a potential cause, effect, or trend.
What is historical research?
200
Research which seeks to determine whether, and to what degree, a relationship exists between two or more variables.
What is correlational research?
200
Alphabetically.
What is how references are cited on the References page?
200
The process of creating summaries by locating, reviewing, summarizing, and classifying your references.
What is abstracting?
300
The collection and analysis of numerical data to explain, predict, and/or control phenomena of interest.
What is quantitative research?
300
The neutrality or objectivity of the data collected.
What is confirmability?
300
A decimal number between -1.00 and +1.00 that describes both the size and direction of the relation between two variables.
What is a correlation coefficient?
300
Firsthand information, such as the testimony of an eyewitness, an original document, a relic, or a description of a study written by the person who conducted it.
What is a primary source?
300
A statistical approach to summarizing the results of many quantitative studies addressing the same topic.
What is meta-analysis?
400
The collection, analysis, and interpretation of comprehensive narrative and visual data to gain insights into a particular phenomenon of interest.
What is qualitative research?
400
The stability of the data.
What is dependability?
400
Research that attempts to explain the cause, or reason, for existing differences in the behavior or status of groups.
What is causal-comparative research?
400
Secondhand information, such as a brief description of a study written by someone other than the person who conducted it.
What is a secondary source?
400
A numerical way of expressing the strength or magnitude of a reported relation.
What is an effect size?
500
The overall strategy followed in collecting and analyzing data.
What is a research method?
500
The researcher's belief that everything is context-bound.
What is transferability?
500
The degree to which observed differences on the dependent variable are a direct result of manipulation of the independent variable, not some other variable.
What is internal validity?
500
The part of a research study which identifies, locates, and analyzes documents containing information related to the research problem.