Research
Research Designs
Reliability and Validity
Scales of Measurement
100
Adds to our knowledge, improves practice informs policy debates
What is the importance of research
100
administer a survey to a sample to identify trends in attitudes, opinions, behaviors, or characteristics of a large group of people/population
What is survey design
100
stable and consistent scores from an instrument
What is reliability
100
lowest level of measurement in which numbers are used to represent different categories
What is nominal
200
Access to participants and sites, time, resources, and personal research skills
What are factors that affect researcher's ability to perform research
200
seek to relate two or more different variable to see if they influence each other
What is correlational design
200
the degree to which all of the evidence points to the intended interpretation of test scores for the proposed purpose
What is validity
200
level of measurement that represents categories by ranks
What is ordinal
300
specify a problem, justify it, suggest the need to study it for audiences
What is identifying a research problem?
300
determine whether an activity/materials make a difference in results
What is experimental design
300
level of measurement that organizes data like the ordinal scale but also has equal intervals between items
What is interval
400
independent variable, dependent variable, confounding/intervening variable
What are the types of research variables
400
when you have individuals willing to tell their stories and you want to report their stories
What is narrative design
400
level of measure that organizes data in ranked categories with equal intervals between items, and they have an absolute zero
What is ratio
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