Research Methodology
& Design
& Design
This is a type of research design that uses components such as manipulation and control.
What is an experimental design?
This is what researchers are trying to predict.
What is a dependent variable?
A process and form to help human subjects decide if they want to participate in a research study.
What is Informed Consent?
This statistic is notated as r?
What is correlation?
The general formatting for research papers (i.e., font style, font size, and spacing).
What is size 10, 11, or 12 font; Times New Roman, Arial, Calibri, Lucida, or Georgia; and double-spacing.
The letter to notate the amount of participants in a study.
What is N?
This is the controlled changed to an independent variable.
What is manipulation?
An entity on a university's campus that makes decisions about whether a research study should be implemented.
What is the IRB?
This type of analysis compares the means of two independent groups in order to determine whether there is a statistical difference between them.
What is an (independent samples) t-test?
This specific part of the research paper includes a detailed description of what the researchers did.
What is the procedure section?
A measure's response format that may go from 1 through 5.
What is a Likert scale?
Participants are put into different conditions this way.
What is random assignment or randomization?
One example is to copy the work of another person or group without giving proper credit.
What is plagiarism?
The probability of obtaining observed results, or in other words, the statistic that you typically want less than .05.
What is a p-value or significant test?
The elements of a journal article citation that are italicized.
Caudill, L. E. (2024). A paper about research methods. Research Methods & Design Journal, 40(3), p. 1-20.
What are the journal title and journal volume number?
What is a 2 x 2 factorial design?
What is a control condition or comparison group?
A broad human subjects protection that provides people with privacy of their study materials.
What is confidentiality?
This type of analysis compares means and is relevant for multiple independent variables or an IV with more than 2 levels.
What is an ANOVA?
The general rule of using numbers in a research paper.
What is use numerals to express numbers 10 or greater and use words to express numbers less than 10?
This statistic helps us understand if a measure is reliable (and is noted by a fancy symbol similar to an x/infinity symbol).
What is Cronbach's alpha?
We use this to make claims about a population - a collection of participants.
What is a sample?
The act of misleading human subjects or providing false information.
What is deception?
These two important components allow us to make claims of the consistency of measures and the accuracy of measures.
What is reliability and validity?
The situation in which this in-text citation is correct:
(Caudill et al., 2024).
What is any source that includes 3 or more authors at any point in the paper?