Can I have a sample?
Selecting a subset of elements from the larger population
What is a sample?
Stages of the grounded theory approach to coding qualitative data
What is open coding, axial coding, and selective coding
Name the four ways a survey can be distributed.
What are mail/written, telephone, online & mobile, and in-person/face-to-face?
A ______ evaluation provides information about planning and improving the program.
What is a formative evaluation?
_____ is when surveys ask respondents to provide more information than is necessary, which increases the time and energy respondents need to complete a survey.
What is respondent burden?
The two major types of sampling
What are probability and non-probability sampling?
The process of ordering and arranging data into categories based on manageable themes and concepts is called ______.
What is coding?
_____ is the best way to ensure that a researcher gathers useful respondent data.
What is Pre-testing?
Type of formative evaluation that is conducted when a program is in operation. Focus on whether a program has been implemented and is being delivered as it was designed
What is process evaluation
Jacobs (1996) relied on _____ as the sampling approach.
What is snowball sampling
A comprehensive list that includes all elements of the population is referred to as a ______.
What is a sampling frame?
A researcher hiding their identity and observing subjects while participating in the subjects’ setting is known as ______.
complete participant
A written, printed, or electronic survey instruments respondents fill out themselves.
What is a questionnaire?
The ability to generalize experimental research findings to the population of interest in the “real world” is referred to as ______.
What is external validity
A group of descriptive statistics that numerically describe the “typical” case and include the mean, median, and mode are referred to as ______.
What are measures of central tendancy?
Being able to use the findings from samples to make statements about the general population is called ______.
What is generalizability?
The systematic gathering of qualitative data that offers a holistic and comprehensive understanding of the culture, environment, and social traits of individuals or individuals in a group is called ______.
What is ethnography?
Questions that ask about more than one topic per question, making it unclear which question is being answered, are called ______.
What are double-barreled questions?
___________ are used when random assignment is not possible, impractical, or unethical
What are quasi-experiments
The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data database is maintained by the ______.
What is Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research
Dr. Wright is interested in asking students about their perceptions of the police. He designs a survey and distributes it to students at his university where he collects his data. What type of sample is this?
What is convenience sampling?
When the researcher becomes a group member unbeknownst to the group, but known to the researcher’s primary contacts, this role conception is called ______.
What is participant as observer?
The proportion of surveys returned relative to the total number of surveys fielded is
What is a response rate?
Criteria that must be met for a researcher to demonstrate evidence of a causal relationship
What is association, temporal ordering, and lack of spurious relationships
Name the four measures of dispersion.
What are the range, interquartile range, variance, and standard deviation?