DATA COLLECTION
This method involves verbally asking participants a set list of open or closed questions.
What is an interview?
Names are drawn from a hat.
What is random sampling?
Researchers must not let their personal opinions effect the research.
What is bias?
This is when results remain consistent after repeated trials.
What is reliability?
A proposed explanation that the researcher tests.
What is a hypothesis?
A detailed study of one individual or group over time.
What is a case study?
Selecting your 10 family members you live with.
What is convenience sampling?
This principle protects a participant's personal identity.
What is privacy?
This means the research measures what it claims to measure.
What is validity?
The group a researcher wishes to generalise findings to.
What is the population?
Watching and recording behaviour in a natural setting.
What is observation?
Choosing every 5th student from the roll.
What is systematic sampling?
What is integrity?
Using multiple sources of data increases this.
What is validity?
A smaller group chosen to represent the population.
What is a sample?
Collecting numerical data such as statistics is called this data type.
What is quantitative data?
Dividing the population into subgroups and selecting individuals.
What is stratefied sampling?
This principal ensures participants are continuously willing to participate.
What is respect?
Another word for reliability started with c is.
What is consistency?
The first step to the research process.
What is planning for research?
This secondary research method involves analysing existing studies and journal articles.
What is a literature review?
Dividing the population into subgroups and selecting entire subgroups.
What is cluster sampling?
Participants must be told the purpose and procedures of the research and THEN agree.
What is informed consent?
Another word for validity starting with a is.
Data collection involves recording actions and ...
What is issues?