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Qualitative Methods
Quantitative Research
100
The primary measures of central tendency
What are mean, median and mode?
100
Grounded theory, narrative theory, ethnographic theory, action research, survey research, program evaluation
What are the primary qualitative research methods?
100
Two commonly used quantitative research methods
What is experimental research and correlational research?
200
Statistics that describe and summarize data
What are descriptive statistics?
200
The most applied and practical research method where teachers, counselors, or administrators become researchers through self-inquiry or program inquiry
What is action research?
200
Benefits: produces more accurate results and helps determine whether a true cause-and-effect relationship exists Flaws: time-consuming and potentially more expensive
What are flaws and benefits to experimental research?
300
Measures of variability
What is are range, variance and standard deviation?
300
This method incorporates a needs assessment, a systematic assessment of how things are and how they could be, to evaluate, modify, create, or eliminate programs
What is program evaluation?
300
An experimental research study that showed participants were more willing than expected to give electric shocks to test takers for wrong answers.
What is Milgram's Obedience to Authority experiment?
400
Statistics that extrapolate or generalize date from a sample to a population
What are inferential statistics?
400
1)determine the degree to which clients are being helped, 2)understand clients' satisfaction with services, 3)distinguish between effective and ineffective treatments, 4)determine if services have influence on social problems, 5)understand the use of staff/program resources
What are some goals of program evaluation?
400
An alternative to experimental research, this method helps researchers understand the relationship or association between variables; however, it does not allow inference of cause-and-effect relationship among variables.
What is correlational research?
500
A continuation of the status quo, or what is commonly believed; the hypothesis a researcher wishes to disprove.
What is a null hypothesis?
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