This research design includes qualitative and quantitative methods
What is mixed methods
100
Meaning of IRB
What is Institutional Review Board?
100
This type of validity is concerned with the generalizability of findings to other situations and specified populations.
What is external validity?
100
This is a prediction that no relationship exists between two variables in a study.
What is the null hypothesis?
100
Kurt Lewin.
Who is a key founder of action research?
200
This research design has high internal validity
What is experimental?
200
This ethical requirement assures that prospective human subjects will understand the nature of the research and can knowledgeably and voluntarily decide whether or not to participate.
What is informed consent?
200
This type of validity refers to whether there is a causal relationship between the independent and dependent variables in a study.
What is internal validity?
200
In quantitative research articles, you are likely to find statistical language, tables, and charts in this section of the study.
What is Results or Findings?
200
1. Identify an Issue
2. Investigate
3. Plan
4. Collect Data
5. Reflect
What is the action research cycle?
300
A qualitative research design that is interested in understanding the cultural norms of a group or organization.
What is ethnography?
300
If a researcher reveals identifiable information about a participant in her study, she has violated this ethical principle of respect.
What is confidentiality and anonymity?
300
This type of validity refers to the extent to which a test measures what it claims to be measuring.
What is construct validity?
300
This is a variable controlled by the researcher - in experimental designs it is the intervention.
What is the independent variable?
300
This type of validity in Action Research is concerned with whether the study led to a successful resolution of a problem or addressed an important issue.
What is Outcome Validity?
400
This quantitative design seeks to understand relationships between variables but cannot establish causality.
What is correlational?
400
A report summarizing the ethical principles and guidelines for research involving human subjects that was issued in 1978.
What is the Belmont Report?
400
This threat to internal validity occurs when subjects drop out of or miss large portions of a study.
What is experimental mortality?
400
A research paradigm characterized by the ontological belief that there is an objective reality that is guided by universal principles.
What is Positivist?
400
This type of validity in action research refers to whether the study was influenced, reviewed by, and its results shared with peers.
What is Dialogic Validity?
500
Also referred to as ex-post facto, this quantitative design is interested in cause-effect relationships between groups that have already been formed.
What is causal comparative?
500
Respect for persons, beneficence, and justice.
What are the 3 core principles of ethical research established in the Belmont Report?
500
This strategy of using different methods to collect data increases the validity (credibility) of qualitative research.
What is methodological triangulation?
500
Strategies to select a research population that reduce sampling error and increase the generalizability of a study.
What is probability sampling?
500
This value indicates the probability that you can correctly reject the null hypothesis when conducting an action research study (or any study) generating tests of significance.