The ability to apply the results of research in one context to another similar context. Also, the extent to which a study invites readers to make connections between elements of the study and their own experiences.
What is Transferability?
100
The relationship established that shows that an independent variable, and nothing else, causes a change in a dependent variable. Establishes, also, how much of a change is shown in the dependent variable.
What is a Causal Relationship?
100
The center score in a distribution.
What is Median?
200
The average score within a distribution.
What is the mean?
200
A measure of variation within a distribution, determined by averaging the squared deviations from the mean of a distribution.
What is a Variance?
200
The extent to which a measure, procedure or instrument yields the same result on repeated trials.
What is Reliability?
200
1) A common statistical analysis, usually abbreviated as r, that measures the degree of relationship between pairs of interval variables in a sample. The range of correlation is from -1.00 to zero to +1.00. 2) A non-cause and effect relationship between two variables.
What is a Correlation?
200
A variable that is part of the situation that exist from which originates the stimulus given to a dependent variable. Includes treatment, state of variable, such as age, size, weight, etc.
What is an Independent Variable?
300
A research tool that includes at least one question which is either open-ended or close-ended and employs an oral or written method for asking these questions. The goal of a survey is to gain specific information about either a specific group or a representative sample of a particular group. Results are typically used to understand the attitudes, beliefs, or knowledge of a particular group.
What is a survey?
300
The range of values of a particular variable.
What is a Distribution?
300
The most frequent score in a distribution.
What is Mode?
300
A variable that receives stimulus and measured for the effect the treatment has had upon it.
What is a Dependent Variable?
300
The degree to which the results from the sample deviate from those that would be obtained from the entire population, because of random error in the selection of respondent and the corresponding reduction in reliability.
What is a Sampling Error?
400
A term used in survey research to refer to the match between the target population and the sample.
What is accuracy?
400
The chance that a phenomenon has of occurring randomly. As a statistical measure, it shown as p (the "p" factor).
What is Probability?
400
The target group under investigation, as in all students enrolled in first-year composition courses taught in traditional classrooms. The population is the entire set under consideration. Samples are drawn from populations.
What is Population?
400
The difference between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution.
What is Range?
400
A group in an experiment that receives no treatment in order to compare the treated group against a norm.
What is a Control Group?
500
A frequency distribution statistics. Normal distribution is shaped like a bell.
What is a Bell Curve?
500
A researcher's ability to demonstrate that the object of a study is accurately identified and described, based on the way in which the study was conducted.
What is Credibility?
500
Recorded observations, usually in numeric or textual form.
What is Data?
500
The most frequent score in a distribution.
What is Mode?
500
A form of reasoning in which conclusions are formulated about particulars from general or universal premises.