The Research Process
This is a group of of ideas that aims to explain something about the social world.
What is THEORY.
A set of criteria advocated for assessing quality of qualitative research.
This term is definied by take and use of another person's writings as one's own.
What is plagiarism.
The distortion in the representativeness of the sample that arises when some members of the population stand little or no chance of being selected for inclusion in the sample.
What is sampling bias.
These are labels that we give to aspects of the social world.
What are concepts.
This is causally influenced by their characteristics.
What is the dependent variable.
This review involves adopting a defined set of procedures.
What is a systematic review.
A factor in when researchers decide to stop collecting data (usually in qualitative studies).
What is saturation.
When respondents are asked a question and can reply however they want.
What is an open-ended question.
Defined as explicit statements of what the researcher intends to find out.
What is the research question.
This is the process of devising measures of the concepts a researcher wants to study.
What is operationalization.
This type of review summarizes the key works selected by the author.
What is a narrative review.
This is the listing of all units in the population from which the sample will be selected.
What is the sampling frame.
This is a device used that specifies the categories of behaviors that are to be observed and how behavior should be allocated to those categories.
Observation schedule
This is a philosophical approach that focuses on how individuals make sense of the world around them, and how the researcher overcomes their preconceptions to understand the phenomena.
What is phenomenology.
This is the degree to which results of a study can be reproduced by following the same research process.
What is replication.
These are conducted to establish what is already known about a topic and. to provide a background and justification for the research.
What is a literature review.
These are differences between a random sample and the population from which it is selected.
What is sampling error.
This is the degree to which a measure of a concepts is stable.
What is reliability.
This is an informed speculation, which is set up to be tested, about the relationship between two or more variables.
This is an assessment of the integrity of the research conclusions.
What is validity.
A relationship between two variables whereby as one increases the other increases as well.
What is a positive relationship.
This is a sample implies that some units in the population are more more likely to be selected than others.
What is a non-probability sample.
When ethngraphers lose their sense of being a researcher and become wrapped up in the worldview of the people they are studying.
What is going native.