Statistics
Qualitative Study
Evaluating Research
Experimental Design
Correlational Design
100
mean
What is the average?
100
fieldnotes
What is text recorded by the researcher during a qualitative study?
100
linking device
What is the word or phrase used to tie together sections of a report?
100
homogeneous sample
What is a group of people that vary little in their personal characteristics?
100
product-moment correlation coefficient
What is the statistic that expresses a correlation statistic as a linear relationship?
200
mode
What is the score that appears most frequently?
200
focus group interview
What is the process of collecting data by interviewing a group of 4-6 people?
200
encoding
What is the intentional use by an author of specific terms to convey ideas?
200
outcome
What is the dependent variable that is the presumed effect of the treatment variable?
200
Co-vary
What is the means to predict a score on one variable with knowledge about another variable?
300
standard deviation
What is the square root of the variance?
300
probes
What is a subquestion under each question that the researcher asks to elicit more information?
300
research report
What is a completed study that reports an investigation of a problem?
300
true experiment
What is it when a researcher randomly assigns participants to different conditions of the experimental variable?
300
correlation matrix
What is a visual display of the correlation coefficients for all variables in a study?
400
z score
What is a popular form of standard score?
400
Transcription
What is process of converting audiotape or fieldnotes into text data?
400
journal article
What is a short research report that is submitted to an editor of a journal?
400
Quasi-experiment
What is the assignment,but not random assignment of participants to a group?
400
phi coefficient
What is the coefficient used to determine the degree and direction of association when both variable measures are dichotomous?
500
Type I Error
What is the error that occurs when the null hypothesis is rejected, when actually true?
500
coding process
What is process that translates text data into meaningful information?
500
conference paper
What is a research report presented to an audience at a conference?
500
times series design
What is the process of studying one group, over time, with multiple pretest and posttest measures or observations?
500
regression line
What is the line of "best fit" for all points of score on a graph?
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