A process of steps used to collect and analyze information to increase our understanding of a topic or issue?
What is research?
100
What are educational issues, controversies, or concerns that guide the need for conducting a study?
What is a research problem?
100
A written summary of journal articles, books, and other documents that describes the past and current state of information on the topic of one's research study is called what?
What is a literature review?
100
What type of interviewing questions allow for respondents to create the options for responding?
What is an open ended question?
100
When one testes and idea to determine whether it influences an outcome or dependent variable, one is conducting what?
What is an experiment?
200
What are the six steps in the process of research?
What is identifying a research problem, reviewing the literature, specifying a purpose for research, collecting data, interpreting data, and reporting and evaluating research?
200
What is the first sentence called in writing a research topic?
What is the narrative hook?
200
Literature reported by the individuals that actually conducted the research or who originated the ideas for particular research is called what?
What is primary source literature?
200
What is an observational role adopted by researchers when they take part in activities in the settings they observe for a particular study?
What is a participant observer?
200
This provides a measure on some attribute or characteristic that one assess for participants in a study before they receive a treatment?
What is a pretest?
300
What kind of research involves the investigator identifying a research problem based on trends in the field or on the need to explain why something occurs?
What is quantitative research?
300
What term is used in describing that the past literature or practice experiences of researchers does not adequately address the research problem?
What is a deficiency in the evidence?
300
What is a summary of the major aspects of a study or article conveyed in a concise way and written with specific components that describe a study?
What is an abstract?
300
What records a description of the events, activities, and people involved in a study?
What are descriptive fieldnotes?
300
What is the dependent variable that is the presumed effect of the treatment variable?