This is confirmed or rejected in the research process.
What is a hypothesis?
100
The reason ethical codes, such as the Nuremburg Code, exist.
What is to protect subjects.
100
These two descriptive statistics should be reported for every data set.
What are mean and standard deviation?
100
This occurs when a researcher makes up data.
What is fabrication?
100
These two forces have allowed data analytics to emerge.
What are massive data sets and faster computing?
200
This is measured in the research.
What is the dependent variable?
200
The name of the body that reviews all research proposals for ethical violations?
What is the institutional review board (IRB)?
200
Test used to determine if there is a relationship between hours of sleep and GPA in college students?
What is a correlation?
200
These types of statistics are used with ordinal and nominal data.
What are non-parametric statistics?
200
These are the main benefits of using data analytics.
What are saving time and improving decision making?
300
These are the five steps of the research process.
What are- Identify the problem/question; Formulate the hypothesis; Develop the research plan; Collect & analyze data; Interpret results & present conclusions.
300
This exists when the results of a study apply to and/or exist in the broader population.
What is external validity?
300
Test used to determine if there is a difference between the opinions of athletes and non-athletes about paying college athletes.
What is an independent t-test?
300
The major difference between the writing style in the results and discussion section.
What is including the author's expertise?
300
These are the three components of a data analytics system used by a decision maker.
What are data management, information system, and analytical models
400
A gap in the literature or conducting research on a new sample are examples of this component of the research process.
What is justification for a study?
400
The type of sample in which random samples are selected from several sub-groups in proportion to their percentage in the population, such as freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors.
What is stratified sample?
400
Statistic used to predict college success from SAT score.
What is linear regression?
400
The four steps of qualitative data analysis
What are perception; categorization; establishing linkages and relationships; speculation?
400
A data management system standardizes, centralizes, and integrates data to provide the organization with this.
What is an inventory of data?
500
This type of research plan is exemplified when there is a control group and a group that receives a treatment.
What is experimental design?
500
Looking at old footage of Jesse Owens, Bob Beamon, Carl Lewis, and Usain Bolt to determine if their running mechanics are similar is an example of this form of research.
What is an archival study?
500
Statistic used to determine if there is a difference in recovery time between athletes who have had ACL repairs using a cadaver ligament, a tendon graft, or a hamstring graft.
What is an ANOVA?
500
Flexible design, collecting data in the natural setting, and researcher as instrument of data collection.
What are defining attributes of qualitative research?
500
The core function of analytic models is to reduce this for decision makers.