Research DesignZ
Research Terms
Odds and Ends
Evaluations and Stuff
Reliability and Validity
100
Which research method is most appropriate if you are looking for a causal relationship?
True Experimental Design
100
Identify one section of a formal research paper and tell me what a person might find in that section?Introduction
Literature Review Methods Results or Findings Discussion
100
What is one of the roles of the Institution Review Board
The risk to human subjects is minimized The benefits of the research outweighs the costs The selection of subjects is equal-meaning everyone gets a fair chance of participating
100
Did the program work? Did it have the intended results? Are both questions that could be answered with which type of program evaluation?
Outcome Evaluation
100
When a test measures the variable or dimension it is supposed to measure, then it has...
Validity
200
Open-ended interview questions are often used in this type of research.
Qualitative Research
200
The variable or behavior that is measured for change in a research study or question is known as?
The dependent variable
200
______________ type of research tends to use more numerical data or data that can be reduced to numbers.
Quantitative Research
200
Which type of evaluation is used to measure how much a program costs to achieve a given effect?
Cost-Benefit Analysis
200
the degree to which a questionnaire will produce the same result if administered again, or the “test-retest” concept is known as _____________________.
Reliability
300
_______________ is a type of research that attempts to Investigate if social Programs are effective or not.
Program Evaluation
300
The mean, medium, and mode are all measures of __________.
Central Tendency
300
The _____________________ is a report created by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research to ensure that research participants are treated ethically by researchers.
The Belmont Report
300
A ___________ is a one-page diagram that explains how the program should work theoretically to achieve the desired inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes that capture the logical flow and linkages that exist within the program?
Logic Model
300
In qualitative research the term _________ is when a researcher is honest and open about his/her own biases, how she/he interacted with researcher participants in the field, problems encountered, and how these problems were resolved or not resolved. This process helps others evaluate the findings.
Reflexivity
400
An experiment in which subjects are assigned randomly to an experimental group that receives a treatment or other manipulation of the independent variable and a comparison group that does not receive the treatment or receives some other manipulation is an example of a ________________.
A True Experimental Design
400
___________ type of research tends to use more Words (interview) Photographs, Videos, Sound recordings
Qualitative
400
Length in inches would be an example of what type of level of measurement?
Ratio
400
What type of program evaluation is used to help shape and refine the programs.
Formative Evaluation
400
The best way to get a representative sample of the target population is to....
Randomly sample from the target population.
500
Name at least two benefits and one limitation of a using a single subject research design.
Benefits: Helps develop effective practices The flexibility, simplicity, and low cost of this study design are also beneficial Much easier to plan Much smaller in scale than forms of experimental and quasi-experimental research Take less time and money to conduct than other forms of experimental research High Internal Validity Limitation: Low External Validity
500
A logically interrelated set of propositions about empirical reality or a general statement intended to explain facts.
Theory
500
Analysis of data that was collected by someone else is known as?
Secondary Data Analysis
500
A type of program evaluation that looks at what is actually happening in the program and the process of the service delivery is known as?
Process Evaluation
500
Single Subject Research Designs have high levels of what type of validity?
Internal
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