Data Sources
Research Design
Measurement
Sampling
Selection
100
Existing data that is collected from old client records, newspapers, etc. is called:
What is Archival Data
100
Measurement is taken only one time. Provides a snapshot
What is Cross-sectional
100
The degree to which an instrument accurately measures a concept is
What is validity
100
Samples in which each person has an equal chance of being selected are called:
What is Probability Sampling
100
The people selected to participate in the study
What is Sample
200
Existing data that had been collected by another researcher is called:
What is Secondary Data
200
Data is collected on several different occasions over a period of time.
What is Longitudinal
200
The degree to which an instrument measures a concept the same way each time is
What is reliability
200
When participants are recruited by asking existing participants to refer others to the study, it is called:
What is Snowball Sampling
200
The actual people who choose to be involved in your research
What are Respondents
300
A data collection method where people are brought together to discuss a topic is called:
What is Focus Group
300
Individuals are randomly assigned to treatment or control group. Change is measured from pre- to post-test for both groups.
What is Experimental
300
The ability to detect subtle differences between groups or changes over time is
What is sensitivity
300
The extent to which the results of a study can be generalized to other situations and to other people.
What is External Validity
300
The group to which the results of the study could be generalized
What is the Population
400
Data in which participants are asked to report on experiences or feelings from their own past is called:
What is Retrospective Data
400
In a quasi-experimental design, this is the name for the group that does not get the intervention.
What is Comparison Group
400
The change in a dependent variable due to the research methods is
What is reactivity
400
A sampling strategy that selects a sample to mirror the characteristics of the population is:
What is Quota Sampling
400
All of the people that could be selected to participate in your research study
What is the Sampling Frame
500
Which type of data collection has the lowest response rate? Online, Mailed, In Person, or Telephone Surveys
What is Mailed Surveys
500
Longitudinal design where data is collected from the same people at several different time periods
What is a Cohort Design
500
The tendency to agree or disagree with most statements regardless of the content is:
What is acquiescent response bias
500
A sampling strategy that selects every 10th person on a list of the sampling frame is called:
What is Systematic Sampling
500
It is used to calculate the minimum sample size required so that one can be reasonably likely to detect an effect of a given size.
What is Power Analysis
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