Research methods
Three distinct research methods
What are qualitative, quantitative, and mixed?
The application of research to shape life and society
What is applied research?
A quantitative design that researchers use to test cause-and-effect relationships by randomly assigning participants to groups.
What is a true experimental design?
A qualitative research design that involves 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
What is ethnography?
A mixed method design where the collection and analysis of quantitative data is followed by the collection and analysis of qualitative data
What is explanatory sequential mixed method design?
Research methods using both qualitative and quantitative components
What is mixed method?
A statement describing a researcher's expectation regarding their anticipated findings
What is a hypothesis?
A quantitative design that researchers use to test cause-and-effect relationships without randomly assigning participants to groups.
What is a quasi-experimental design?
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
What is narrative research?
A mixed method design where the collection and analysis of qualitative data is followed by the collection and analysis of quantitative data
What is exploratory sequential mixed method design?
Two popular social science paradigms
What are positivism and post-positivism?
The term for the entity or unit of observation that a researcher aims to draw conclusions about at the end of a study
What is a unit of analysis?
A quantitative research design that seeks to describe the current status of a variable
What is a descriptive research design?
A qualitative research design that involves a detailed examination of a single group, individual, situation, or site
What is a case study?
A mixed method design where the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data occurs simultaneously
What is convergent parallel mixed methods?
Type of research where in a research tests a hypothesis
What is deductive?
Research design where participants are assigned to different groups based on chance, helping to eliminate bias and establish causation?
What is a randomized controlled trial (RCT)?
A quantitative research design that attempts to determine cause-and-effect relationships, without random assignment, and with more than one pre-existing group
What is a quasi-experimental design with a non-equivalent groups design?
A qualitative research design that involves exploring the essence of human experiences.
What is phenomenology?
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?
Our assumptions about how we see the world
What is ontology?
Claims a researcher makes about a lower-level unit of analysis based on data collected from a higher-level unit of analysis.
What is ecological fallacy?
A quantitative research design that attempts to determine the extent of a non-causal relationship between two or more variables
What is a correlational research design?
A flexible and perhaps most widely used research design
What is case study research?
A research approach that requires both quantitative and qualitative data to be systematically combined to answer complex questions that cannot be addressed by either type of data alone
What is the purpose of mixed method research?