The researcher identifies this based on trends in the field or on the need to explain why something occurs.
What is a research problem?
100
The key concept, idea, or process studied.
What is a central phenomenon?
100
The broad subject matter addressed by a study.
What is a research topic?
100
Research used to test activities, practices, or procedures to determine whether they influence an outcome or dependent variable.
What is an experiment?
100
The total of the scores divided by the number of scores.
What is a mean?
200
An attribute or characteristic of individuals that researchers study.
What is a variable?
200
A declarative statement that advances the overall direction or focus of a study.
What is a purpose statement?
200
Narrows the purpose into specific questions that the researcher would like answered or addressed in the study.
What is a research question?
200
Systematic, qualitative procedures that researchers use to generate a theory that explains, at a broad conceptual level, a process, action, or interaction about a substantive topic.
What is a grounded theory design?
200
The score that appears most frequently in a list of scores.
What is the mode?
300
A declarative statement in which an investigator makes a prediction about the outcomes of a relationship.
What is a hypothesis?
300
Labels used to describe a segment of text or an image.
What is codes?
300
The first sentences in a research report that draw readers into a study, cause readers to pay attention, elicit an emotional or attitudinal response from readers, and encourage readers to continue reading.
What is a narrative hook?
300
A quantitative design in which investigators use a type of statistical technique to describe and measure the degree of association (or relationship) between two or more variables or sets of scores.
What is a correlational design?
300
The dispersion of scores around the mean.
What is the variance?
400
A tool for measuring, observing, or documenting data.
What is an instrument?
400
Similar codes aggregated together to form a major idea in the database.
What is themes?
400
An attribute or characteristic expressed in an abstract, general way.
What is a construct?
400
An informal process of research in which educators engage in study of their own practices.
What is action research?
400
A means for identifying the strength of the conclusions about group differences or about the relationship among variables in a quantitative study.
What is the effect size?
500
The numbers derived from formulas to measure aspects of a set of data.
What is statistics?
500
The process of corroborating evidence from different individuals.
What is triangulation?
500
Prediction that there will be no statistically significant difference between the independent variable and the dependent variable.
What is a null hypothesis?
500
A procedure for collecting and analyzing both quantitative and qualitative methods in a single study or a series of studies to understand a research problem.
What is mixed method research?
500
The null hypothesis is rejected by the researcher when it is actually true.