Chapter 13
This is referred to as the non-numerical examination and interpretation of observations for the purpose of discovering underlying meanings and patterns of relationship.
What is qualitative analysis?
The document used in data processing and analysis that tells the location of different data items in a data file.
What is a codebook?
Statistical computations describing either the characteristics of a sample or the relationship among variables in a sample.
What are descriptive statistics?
A summary of a research article.
What is an abstract?
This citation style is the most commonly used format for manuscripts in the social sciences.
What is APA?
The study of signs and the meanings associated with them; “the science of signs.”
What is semiotics?
The analysis of a single variable, for purposes of description (examples: frequency distribution, averages, and measures of dispersion).
What is univariate analysis?
The body of statistical computations relevant to making inferences from findings based on sample observations to some larger population.
What are inferential statistics?
Presenting someone else’s words or thoughts as though they were your own, constituting intellectual theft.
What is plagiarism?
This is the current version of APA style guide.
What is version 7?
A meticulous analysis of the details of conversation, based on a complete transcript that includes pauses, hems, and haws.
What is conversation analysis?
An ambiguous term generally suggesting typical or normal; a central tendency (examples: mean, median, mode).
What is an average?
A general term referring to the likelihood that the relationship observed in a sample could be attributed to sampling error alone.
What is statistical significance?
Asking questions such as, "Who/what is the author of the website?" and "Are the data up-to-date?"?
What is evaluating the quality of internet materials?
In APA 7, student papers are no longer required to have what?
What is a running header?
This is the process of classifying and categorizing raw qualitative data.
What is coding?
A number that represents how spread out all values are from the mean.
What is a standard deviation?
There are no relationships between the categorical variables. If you know the value of one variable, it does not help you predict the value of another variable.
What is the null hypothesis?
One should be aware of audience, form, and aim when doing this.
What is consideration of writing social research?
These help readers locate the cited source in the References section of the paper, and follow either a parenthetical format or a narrative format.
What are in-text citations?
The initial classification and labeling of concepts in qualitative data analysis. This involves reading and rereading the data to identify key concepts.
What is open coding?
The analysis of two variables simultaneously for the purpose of determining the empirical relationship between them.
What is bivariate analysis?
Incorrect rejection of the null hypothesis.
What is a Type 1 error?
Publication in scholarly journals typically involves the ____ review process.
What is peer?
This is the latin phrase used when citing a work with three or more authors.
What is et al.?