Parts of the Research Process
______________ always helps to test a theory.
What is a Hypothesis?
__________ and __________ are the different types of case studies.
What are Single and Comparative?
The ____________ is the expected mean value of Y, when X=0.
What is the intercept/ constant?
____________ is a form of observation in which a researcher witnesses a process or event, but is not directly involved.
What is direct observation?
A p-value of _____ means that you can reject the null hypothesis.
What does a p-value of <= 0.05 signify?
A set of concepts that are linked together to propose an explanation of how and why phenomena exist.
What is a theory?
Ethnographers must make sure that their field notes are not used to harm ______________.
What are Participants?
A __________ relationship is when two variables appear correlated but are not.
What is a spurious relationship?
_________ is a type of coding where the researcher reads through the data first to identify themes.
What is inductive coding?
In the statement, "government funding decreases non-profit advocacy", _________ is the dependent variable.
What is Non-profit advocacy?
Content Analysis is an example of a _________ research method.
What is Qualitative?
A __________ __________ is an intensive study of a single unit for the purpose of understanding a larger class of similar units.
What is a case study?
The _____ is used to compare a sample mean to a population mean to determine how many standard errors away from the mean the sample is.
What is the t-score?
Coding transcripts help to locate __________.
What are "patterns"?
__________ and _________ are the two ways that help you determine whether you can reject the null hypothesis.
What is the importance of a t-test and p-value?
_____________ level of measurement is needed in order to use a graph.
What are ordinal, continuous, or categorical?
An _____________ is a type of interview in which the researcher asks open-ended questions that allows the respondent to guide most of the interview process or conversation.
What is an "unstructured interview"?
The __________ of a line can be determined by knowing the mean values of X and Y, and the slope.
What is the "equation" of a line?
The reason you ask your interviewees to fill out informed consent documents is ________________.
What is "to avoid harm"?
A regression line of Y= -3.54+5.00 X shows that the ______ is 5.00.
What is the Slope?
______________ is used to refer to the process through which multiple sources are consulted to answer a research question.
What is Triangulation?
____________ and __________ are the two different types of interview methods.
What are Structured and Unstructured?
A ____________ measures the number of standard deviations a case is located above/ below the mean.
What is a z-score?
__________ interviews are most appropriate for understanding group customs and interviews.
What are Cultural Interviews?
The hypothesis shows that there is a positive relationship between name recognition and campaign spending. Name recognition is the _________ variable, and campaign spending is the _____ variable.
What are Dependent variable and Independent variable?