Used to predict scores and/or explain the relationship among variables
What is a correlational design?
100
Used when there is a culture sharing group to study
What is an ethnographic design?
100
Mixed methods and action research
What are combined designs?
100
This type of research is the collection and analysis of numerical data to describe, explain, predict or control phenomena of interest
What is quantitative research?
200
Locating the literature to know who has studied the research problem you plan to examine
What is reviewing the literature?
200
Used when you want to establish possible cause and effect between your independent and dependent variables
What is an experimental design?
200
Researchers describe the lives of individuals and collect and tell stories about people's lives
What is a narrative design?
200
Used when an individual wants to gather information about, and subsequently improve the ways his/her educational setting operates
What is an action research design?
200
This type of research consists of descriptive approaches to data collection to understand what the research problem means from the perspective of participants
What is qualitative research?
300
Specifying the issue to study
What is identifying a research problem?
300
Used to describe the attitudes, opinions, behaviors, or characteristics of the population
What is a survey design?
300
Used when you want to study a particular situation, event, program, or phenomenon that is bounded
What is a case study design?
300
A research design for collecting, analyzing, and mixing both quantitative and qualitative data in a single study
What is a mixed methods design?
300
The Dream is Now
What is an example of a narrative design?
400
Focusing the research problem, identifying the objective of a study
What is specifying the purpose?
400
With this type of correlational design the researcher's purpose is to identify variables that will predict an outcome
What is a prediction design?
400
This type of ethnographic design is used when the researcher wants to advocate for a marginalized group
What is a critical ethnography?
400
This type of action research design involves a small scale research project
What is practical action research?
400
With this type of survey design, the researcher collects data at one point in time.
What is a cross-sectional survey design?
500
Gathering information to address the research question
What is collecting data?
500
The only one that has random assignment
What is a true experiment?
500
Refers to the researcher being aware of and openly discussing his or her role in the study
What is a reflexivity?
500
In this type of mixed methods design, the researcher gives equal priority to both quantitative and qualitative data and collects both types of data concurrently
What is a convergent (parallel or concurrent) design?
500
This type of action research design has a social and community orientation and an emphasis on research that contributes to change in society