Basic concepts
The concept of an instrument measuring what it says it is measuring
What is validity?
A research methodology that involves considerable interactions with participants and is used to gain an understanding of underlying reasons, opinions, and motivations
What is qualitative research?
Systematic empirical investigation, used to quantify a problem using numerical data
What is quantitative research?
Type of study where the researcher manipulates the independent variable
What is an experimental research study?
The previous literature on the topic and the specific aims of a study are discussed in this section
What is the introduction section of the research article?
Acronym for a research question
What is PICO/PICOT?
A group where 6-12 people come together to discuss a topic
What is a focus group?
Exploring the mean, median, mode, standard deviations in your study is called this
In a research article, a description of the participants, materials, and procedures used in a study is typically found in this section
What is the methods section?
Test used to compare the means of two groups
What is a t-test?
Treatment studies in CSD are often structured this way, where the groupings and /or treatment are not truly random
What are quasi-experimental studies?
This is a example of a kind of sampling is used in qualitative studies ( Bilingual students with the great potential to succeed as SLPs)
What is purposive sample?
Exploring how large is the difference between the groups can be done using this
What is effect size?
Type of experiment where there is always more than one independent variable
What is a parametric experiment?
Design where one or a small number of subjects are evaluated as separate individuals
What are single subject design studies?
Type of group design where performance of two separate groups are measured
What are between subject designs?
What is phenomenological approach?
The statistical technique that allows to compare the performance of groups before and after treatment
What is an ANOVA?
In this type of study, the researcher does not manipulate the IV
What is a descriptive study?
The section of the article where the results are summarized/ interpreted and evaluated against other literature
What is the discussion section of an article?
Type of analysis you do when you want to explore the association between two variables; i.e. do they move together? (e.g. relationship between MLU & sentence length)
What is correlational analysis?
Asking your participant a set of questions but allowing for followup requests for information
What are semi-structured interviews?
a general statement or default position that there is nothing new happening, like there is no association among groups, or no relationship between two measured phenomena.
What is the null hypothesis?
Type of developmental study where you look at change within the same group of participants over time
What are longitudinal studies?
Type of Tx design where you complete baseline analysis, provide treatment and then check for any change (after withdrawing Tx)
What is an ABA treatment design?