A type of reasoning that emphasizes a "top-down" approach towards research.
What is deductive reasoning?
100
A design that empowers people to bring about change through their research.
What is a critical research design?
100
Numeric data from the 2010 census
What is an example of quantitative data? or What is an example of demographic data?
100
Statistics that describes the distribution of the sample.
What is descriptive statistics?
100
The variable that is being explained through research.
What is dependent variable?
200
A detailed summary of previous research that has been published on any particular topic.
What is "literature review"?
200
The knowledge that certain people have more than others.
What is expert knowledge?
200
A method of gathering data from a large number of people.
What is a survey?
200
This level of data cannot be ordered in a meaningful way and does not have any direction.
What is nominal level data?
200
When a measure provides consistent results.
What is the reliability of a measure?
300
Institutional Review Boards
Who are the boards or organizations that approve research projects?
300
The process through which multiple sources may be used to answer a research question.
What is Triangulation?
300
Information about the structure of the organization, statements about organizational mission and vision, and the objective results of the organization's operation
What are the different ways to measure a organization's behavior?
300
Margin of error and sample size are _______ related to one another.
What is inversely?
300
It is a variable that can be coded as 1 (shows attribute) and 0 (no attribute).
What is a dummy variable? or What is a binary variable? of What is a dichotomous variable?
400
Beneficence, respect for persons and justice are its core principles.
What are the core principles of Belmont Report?
400
This type of research uses evidence instead of moral arguments to support hypothesis.
What is empirical research?
400
Gallup, Princeton and Pew
What are some of the organizations that conduct surveys?
400
The extent to which two numerical variables, x and y have a linear relationship. But, this does not mean that x causes y.
What is correlation? And, how is it different from causation?
400
While conducting a particular research, a group that provides a baseline for comparison, but does not receive the critical treatment or the independent variable.
What is a control group?
500
To develop an understanding of and gather knowledge about political phenomenon.
What is political science research?
500
A summary that addresses the different pieces of literature relevant for a particular research topic.
What is an annotated bibliography?
500
Nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio.
What are the different levels of measurement?
500
The extent to which a distribution differs from a normal distribution.
What is skewness?
500
A relationship in which two variables appear correlated, but are not.