An interactive group setting where participants are encouraged to discuss their perceptions, opinions, beliefs, etc. about a given topic of study.
What are Focus Groups
100
A threat to internal validity when participants drop out of the research study
What is Experimental Mortality
100
Developing a theory based on inductive reasoning
What is Grounded Theory
100
The measure of usefulness and appropriate use of the program evaluation
What is Utility
200
Studying the interaction between group members such as the flow of conversation and nonverbal behaviors in a focus group.
What is Process
200
Variables used in correlational research that are not experimentally manipulated
What are Predictor Variables
200
The study of the nature of reality
What is Ontology
200
The absolute or relative quality of the study as a whole or in regards to a specific aspect
What is Merit
300
The first level of coding when a researcher begins to makes sense of the data by finding distinct concepts and categories
What is Open Coding
300
A measure of how the data distributes itself about the mean
What is Variance
300
The philosophical study of the nature of ethical behavior
What is Axiology
300
The value of a program within a specific context
What is Worth
400
A process of confirming that your concepts and categories accurately represent the interview responses and exploring how your concepts and categories are related
What is Axial Coding
400
A threat to external validity when participants alter their behavior due to their awareness of being observed
What is the Hawthorn Effect
400
BONUS POINTS :D
YOUR ARE A WINNER!!!
400
When a researcher independent from the study comes in and measures the stability and consistency of the inquiry processes used over time.
What is a Dependability Audit
500
BONUS QUESTION!
Points for you! you! and you! EVERYONE (in your group) GETS POINTS!!!!!! :D
500
A statistic used to measure the amount of variance that is accounted for by the explanatory variable in the response variable.
What is Coefficient of Determination
500
A probability sampling method using a chain referral system
What is Snowball Sampling
500
Incorporating the voices of those most likely to be impacted by the results of a study in an effort to promote positive social change