Research Methods
Research that uses both qualitative and quantitative research designs.
What is mixed-methods research?
Taking credit for work that is not one's own.
What is plagiarism?
Search terms in a database search.
What are key words?
A tool or instrument that is used to gather data.
What is a measure?
A group of elements selected from the larger population.
What is a sample?
A research design that is used to learn more about understudied topics.
What is an exploratory design?
Assurance that a researcher provides to participants that no one outside the research process will have access to their information.
What is confidentiality?
A brief summary of an article.
What is an abstract?
Characteristics of a population/sample such as gender and race are examples of this kind of variable.
What are demographic variables?
When characteristics of the sample are similar to those of the population.
What is representativeness?
A type of qualitative research design that is centered on understanding culture.
What is ethnography?
"Consent" for those who do not have the legal authority to agree to participate in research.
What is assent?
An alphabetical list of the studies you include in your writing that is formatted according to certain guidelines.
What is the reference page?
How you define and measure your variables.
What is operationalizing?
A type of probability sampling where every nth number is selected for the sample.
What is systematic random sampling?
A type of quantitative research design that a) has a comparison group and b) does not use random assignment.
What is a quasi-experimental design?
A committee mandated by the federal government to oversee the protection of human and animal subjects in research.
What is the Institutional Review Board?
What is peer review?
A type of variable that obscures the effects of another variable.
What is a confounding variable?
When research participants refer other potential participants to the study.
What is snowball sampling?
A relationship between variables where a) the IV comes before the DV, b) the IV and DV are correlated, and c) the relationship cannot be explained by other factors.
What is a causal relationship?
A study done with mostly poor AA men w/ syphilis who were not offered the treatment (penicillin) so researchers could study the progression of the disease.
What is the Tuskegee experiment?
A model that makes assumptions, attempts to integrate information, gives meaning to what we see and experience, focuses on relationships and connections, and has benefits and consequences.
What is a theoretical perspective?
A word used to describe the stability and consistency of a measure.
What is reliability?
Sometimes referred to as generalizability, this words refers to a study's applicability or relevance to groups outside of the research group.
What is external validity?