The level of confidence that a study is reliable and valid.
What is trustworthiness?
100
Another word for the average of a series of numbers.
What is mean?
100
She led the Expert Study among literacy researchers.
Who is Rona Flippo?
200
An investigation in which one group receives a treatment and is compared with a group that does not receive a treatment.
What is an experiment?
200
A statement that there is no relationship between two variables.
What is a null hypothesis?
200
These are used to create categories which are sometimes developed into themes and theories.
What are codes?
200
The "spread" of scores on the bell curve.
What is the standard deviation?
200
This philosophy of literacy learning was supported by research demonstrating the value of engaging children with meaningful texts and only teaching subskills as needed.
What is whole language?
300
An extended study of a situation over a period of many months or years, for the purpose of understanding the culture or other complex characteristics of the situation.
What is ethnography?
300
The act of putting labels on units of meaning found in textual data.
What is coding?
300
An extended piece of text which gives a detailed view of the situation being studied in an ethnography.
What is a thick description?
300
A check to see how likely it is that the null hypothesis is true.
What is a p-value.
300
Bond and Dykstra coordinated this series of 27 studies.
What are the First Grade Studies?
400
Research that includes brain scans.
What is neuroimaging research?
400
A theory developed by ensuring that every component of the theory is grounded in the data.
What is grounded theory?
400
The process of looking at textual data for specific kinds of information.
What is selective coding?
400
Process used to determine whether the mean scores of two groups are the same.
What is analysis of variance.
400
This significant report emphasized the value of strategic reading, parent support of children's reading, careful use of basal reading programs, and well-prepared teachers.
What is Becoming a Nation of Readers?
500
Research that attempts to determine whether two variables have a relationship.
What is correlational research?
500
A statistical process for determining the needed sample size in an experimental study.
What is power analysis?
500
The recursive process of alternately looking at textual data, coding it, and drawing conclusions.
What is constant comparison?
500
Process of determining whether the mean scores for two groups are affected by variables other than the treatment variable.
What is analysis of covariance.
500
He led the Center for the Study of Reading at the University of Illinois.