Research Designs
Research and Literature
Statistics
Qualitative Studies
100
This research design includes both qualitative and quantitative methods in a single study.
What is mixed methods designs?
100
A summary of the major aspects of an article.
What is an abstract?
100
These are the three measures of central tendency.
What is mean, median, and mode?
100
This is when researchers select participants intentionally to learn or understand the central phenomenon.
What is purposeful sampling?
200
This design studies groups and their behaviors, culture, and language in their environment or in the field.
What is an ethnographic design?
200
A characteristic of an individual or group that can be measured or observed.
What is a variable?
200
The square root of the variance.
What is standard deviation?
200
An individual at a site that provides entrance to the site, helping the researcher locate participants and identify the places to study.
What is a gatekeeper?
300
This design helps researchers compare two or more groups and establishes a cause and effect between variables.
What is an experimental design?
300
This is used when evaluating an instrument. This means that scores are stable and consistent.
What is reliability?
300
This occurs when a null hypothesis is rejected by the researcher when it is actually true.
What is a type 1 error?
300
Text recorded by a researcher during observation.
What are fieldnotes?
400
This design relates two or more variables to explain their relationship and can make use of many statistical formulas.
What is a correlational design?
400
A statement in quantitative research that makes a prediction about the outcome of a relationship between variables.
What is a hypothesis?
400
The probability level that reflects the maximum risk you are willing to take that any observed differences in data are due to chance.
What is a significance (or alpha) level?
400
Subquestions that can be used in an interview to elicit more information.
What is a probe?
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