Research methods
General Research Design
Quantitative Research Designs
Qualitative Research Designs
Mixed Method Research Designs
100
Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed
What are the three types of research methods?
100
Applied research
What is research that helps to shape social life?
100
True experimental design
What is a quantitative design that researchers use to test cause-and-effect relationships and randomly assign participants to groups?
100
Ethnographic research design
What is a qualitative research design that involves an in-depth analytical descriptions of current systems, processes, and phenomena and/or understandings of the shared beliefs and practices of a particular group or culture?
100
Explanatory sequential mixed method design
What is a mixed method design where collection and analysis of quantitative data is followed by a collection and analysis of qualitative data?
200
Mixed method
Which research method has both qualitative and quantitative components?
200
Hypotheses
What is a statement describing a researcher's expectation regarding what results he or she anticipates finding?
200
Quasi-experimental design
What is a quantitative design that researchers use to test cause-and-effect relationships without randomly assigning participants to groups?
200
Narrative research design
What is a qualitative research design that involves studying a single person and gathering data through the collection of stories that are used to construct a narrative about the individual’s experience and the meanings he/she attributes to them?
200
Exploratory sequential mixed method design
What is a mixed method design where collection and analysis of qualitative data is followed by a collection and analysis of quantitative data?
300
Positivism and post-positivism
What are two popular social science paradigms?
300
Unit of Analysis
What is the entity, or unit of observation, a researcher hopes to be able to same something about at the end of his/her study?
300
Descriptive research design
What is a quantitative research design that seeks to describe the current status of a variable?
300
Case study design
What is a qualitative research design that involves a detailed examination of a single group, individual, situation, or site?
300
Convergent parallel mixed methods
What is a mixed method design where collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data occurs simultaneously?
400
Deductive
What is a type of research where we test hypotheses?
400
Causal-comparative research design
What is a quantitative research design that attempts to determine cause-and-effect relationships, without random assignment, and with more than one pre-existing group?
400
Phenomenology
What is a qualitative research design that involves exploring the essence of human experiences?
400
By combining both statistical trends and stories, a researcher can have a better understanding of the problem he/she is studying
What is the core assumption of mixed method research?
500
Ontology
What is our assumptions about how we see the world?
500
Ecological fallacy
What are claims a researcher makes about a lower-level unit of analysis based on data collected from a higher-level unit of analysis?
500
Correlational research design
What is a quantitative research design that attempts to determine the extent of a non-causal relationship between two or more variables?
500
A flexible and perhaps most widely used research design
What is case study
500
Having just quantitative and qualitative data available from a study.
What mixed method research is not!
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