Design Madness
Working for Social Justice
Words not Numbers
Numbers not Words
Hodgepodge
100
Studies in which the researcher is interested in looking at the relationship between variables
What are Correlation studies
100
research paradigm that believes multiple realities shaped by social, political, cultural, economic, gender, and disability values exist; the relationship between researcher and participant is interactive; methodology is often qualitative, often describing contextual factors, especially as they relate to oppression
What is the Transformative Paradigm
100
Is a situated activity that located the observer in the world. researchers study things in their natural settings, attempting to make sense of, or to interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them
What is Qualitative Research
100
if the observed difference between the groups is too large to occur plausibly as a result of chance alone; results are _________ at the 0.05 or 0.01 level
What is Statistical Significance
100
A way of looking at the world composed of certain philosophical assumptions that guide and direct thinking and action…. a philosophical and theoretical framework or a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the research performed in support of them are formulated.
What is a Paradigm
200
A research method designed to describe and analyze practices and beliefs of cultures and communities …. the study and systematic recording of human cultures.
What is Ethnography
200
A type of research that specifically involves members of the community in the entire research process, from research question to design etc..Also has a goal of transforming society
Transformative Participatory action Research
200
The ability to utilize results from a study in other situations by looking at total context
What is Transferability
200
Statistics whose function it is to describe or indicate several characteristics common to the entire sample and summarize data on a single variable (e.g., mean, median, mode, standard deviation)
What are Descriptive statistics
200
Each person in a population has an equal and independent chance of being selected
What is Simple Random Sampling
300
Study represented by X O X X X
Pretest Posttest Control Group Design
300
Inquiries that are based on social transformation, often in developing countries, in the program evaluation context
What is Transformative participatory evaluation
300
Involves the use of multiple methods and multiple data sources to support the strength of interpretations and conclusions in qualitative research ... Checking info that has been collected from different sources or methods for consistency of evidence across sources of data
What is Triangulation
300
This kind of statistics makes conclusions about a population based on information gained from a sample
Inferential Statistics
300
Committee that reviews proposals to ensure the ethical treatment of participants
What is an Institutional Review Board/Human Subjects Committee
400
A participatory methodology (not limited to use in rural areas) that includes a number of different techniques (i.e. structured interviewing, mapping techniques, ranking exercises, and trend analysis are used) that are aimed at sharing learning between local people and outsiders.
What is Participatory Rural Appraisal
400
A research method where participants take pictures to show and talk about their experiences... It is a methodology that builds on the power and potential of photography as a flexible and empowering tool that is at once, accessible, therapeutic, influential and communicative.
What is PhotoVoice
400
Combination of sampling strategies where subgroups are chosen based on specific criteria, and a sample of cases are selected within those strata
Stratified Purposeful Sampling
400
A standardized measurement of the impact of a treatment; allows for comparisons of studies using different outcome measures
Effect size
400
This coefficient is used to show the internal consistency reliability of a psychological measure
Chronbach's alpha
500
includes judgments of merit and worth, application of social science methods to determine effectiveness, and achievement of program goals as well as tools related to social justice for the oppressed, especially, although not exclusively women
What is feminist evaluation
500
a theoretical framework that allows scholars to interrogate social, educational, and political issues by prioritizing the voices of participants and respecting multiple roles held by scholars of color when conducting research. Data collected and analyzed through a race-based epistemological lens
What is Critical Race Theory
500
A process in phenomenological research where the researcher attempts to set aside his or her preconceived notions, assumptions, and knowledge of the experience or phenomenon under consideration
What is Epoche or Bracketing
500
This statistical test is used when you have one or more independent variables and more than one dependent variables
What is a MANOVA
500
People, primarily leaders in communities, who are selected for interviewing in a community mapping project
Grass Tops
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