Ew. Research Methods?
Systematic processes, frameworks, and steps or procedures that are used to conduct social science research
What are research methods?
Norms for behavior distinguishing what is and is not acceptable moral behavior in society
What are ethics?
_________ research describes a topic.
What is descriptive research?
A process of defining what is meant by a particular concept
What is conceptualization?
A committee that reviews many elements of the proposed research and has the authority to approve, require modifications, or disapprove any proposed research
What is the Internal Review Board committee (IRB)?
Guides research designed to increase understanding and generate knowledge about a topic
What is a research question?
The principles of the Belmont Report
What are beneficence, justice, and respect for persons?
_______ is an explanation about how things work. A set of interrelated propositions, assumptions, and definitions about how the world is expected to work living in it are supposed to behave.
What is theory?
Level of measurement that indicates that attributes of a measure have an inherent order to them. A level of measurement in which attributes can be rank-ordered.
What is ordinal?
Sought-after characteristics in research that indicate that one’s measures and variables correspond as accurately as possible to the underlying concepts they represent.
What is validity?
A powerful source of non-scientific and non-research based knowledge
What is personal experience?
A requirement for subjects who voluntarily participate in a study after receiving sufficient information about the experiment, and expectations
What is informed consent?
Name the four purposes of research
What are exploratory, descriptive, explanatory, and evaluation research?
Studying the consumption of alcohol on midterm grades. Midterm grades is the ___________?
What is the dependent variable?
Fraud and theft of another person’s words, thoughts, ideas, or other creations (e.g., songs, artwork), and the presentation of that material as one’s own.
What is plagiarism?
Information that takes a variety of forms, such as words, observations, measurements, descriptions, and numbers. The individual pieces of information or evidence gathered, analyzed, and used to answer the research question.
Pregnant women, human fetuses, neonates, incarcerated folks and children are all __________________?
What are vulnerable populations?
___________ research is the systematic assessment of the need for, implementation of, or output of a program based on objective criteria.
What is Evaluation research?
Type of variable that is believed to influence- be associated with- or cause the variation in an outcome or dependent variable
What is an independent variable?
Published articles that go through a rigorous process before being published in an academic journal. These are an excellent source of information used in a literature review.
What are peer-reviewed journal articles?
The typical stages of research
What are develop a research question; conduct a literature review; design the research; collect data; select an analytic approach; generate findings, conclusions, and policy implications?
It was created in 1947 and outlines the ethical principles that guide research. It identifies ten points of guidance.
What is the Nuremberg code?
Research that provides explanations about a topic by addressing questions such as, “Why is it?” “How is it?” “What is the effect of it?” “What causes it?” and “What predicts it?”
What is explanatory research?
Level of measurement that indicates that attributes of a measure can be rank-ordered, have known and equal differences between categories, and be nonarbitrary and meaningful zero.
What is ratio level data?
What is "MEAL?"
What is a writing strategy in which one begins with a main point, offers evidence, analyzes the evidence, and then links that material to the main point.