Studies in quantitative research in which the investigation determines an activity or materials makes a difference in results for participants.
What is Experimental Design (p. 21)
100
The most rigorous form of sampling in quantitative research because the research can claim it is representative of the population.
What is Probability sampling (p. 142)
100
A research study’s statement or conjecture about the outcome of a relationship among attributes or characteristics.
What is Hypotheses (p. 111)
100
The total of the scores divided by the number of the scores.
What is Mean (p.184)
100
The 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 (p. 423)
200
Collection of both quantitative and qualitative data provides a better understanding of a research problem than either one would by itself?
What is Mixed Methods Research (p. 22)
200
Type of sampling where the researcher chooses every nth individual or site in the population until they reach the desired sample size.
What is Systematic sampling (p. 143)
200
Attributes or characteristics that the researcher cannot directly measure because their effect cannot be easily separated from those of other variables.
What is Confounding variables (p. 119)
200
The score that appears most frequently in a list of scores.
What is Mode (p. 185)
200
Qualitative research procedure for describing, analyzing, and interpreting a culture-sharing group’s shared patterns of behavior, beliefs, and language that develops over time.
What is Ethnographic Design Research (p. 462)
300
Data should be reported honestly, without changing or altering the findings to satisify certain predictions or interest groups.
What is Ethics
300
Type of sampling where the researcher selects participants because they are willing and available to be studied.
What is Convenience sampling (p. 145)
300
An attribute or characteristic that “stands between” the independent and dependent variables and exercises an influence on the dependent variable apart from the independent variable.
What is Intervening variable (p. 118)
300
Divides the scores in half, fifty percent are above this point and fifty percent are below this point.
What is Median (p. 185)
300
A quantitative research procedure which investigates and administers a questioner to a sample or to an entire population of people to describe the attitudes, opinions, behaviors, or characteristics of the population,
What is Survey (p. 376)
400
The organization responsible for the approving the study of individuals.
What is Institutional review board (p. 22)
400
Type of sampling where the researcher asks participants to identify other members to become members of the sampling.
What is Snowball sampling (p. 146)
400
Researchers attempt to establish a likely cause-and-effect relationship between variables, rather than prove the relationship.
What is Probably causation (p. 120)
400
The dispersion of scores around the mean.
What is Variance (p. 186)
400
Research that describes the lives of individuals, collect and tell stories about people’s lives, and write narratives of individual experiences.
What is Narrative Research (p. 502)
500
A 1978 Report from the National Commission for the protection of Human Services on Biomedical and Behavioral Research.
What is Belmont Report (p. 22)
500
A group of individuals with some defining characteristics that the researcher can identify and study.
What is Target population or sampling frame (p. 142)
500
Makes predictions that of all possible people whom researchers might study there is no relationship between the independent and dependent variables or no difference between groups of an independent or a dependent variable.
What is Null hypothesis (p. 126)
500
The summary of numbers that represent a single value in a distribution of scores.
What is Central tendency (p. 184)
500
Research which test an idea (or practice or procedure) to determine whether it influences an outcome or dependent variable.