Original Methodologies
The study of documents and communication artifacts.
What is content analysis?
Vital for validity, this element of the dissertation discusses multiple researchers making observations or ratings about the same topic.
What is a literature review?
A piece of software that manages journal articles, automatically generating a bibliography.
What is Mendeley?
Creating a diagram to visually organise information
What is mind mapping?
The Google of Middlesex
What is Library Search?
A group interview involving a small number of demographically similar people
What are focus groups?
The process of testing data collection to assist in identifying both potential problems as well as possible solutions.
What is piloting?
Searching APA Psych tests and following the design of another study.
What is adapting a research instrument?
What you do in the literature review when an idea theory or idea itself in more than one source
What are multiple citations?
Where articles are written by experts and then reviewed by several other experts in the field
What is a peer reviewed journal?
A way of recording participant experiences in their natural contexts
What is journalling?
This data collection method is reliable because it fulfils the criteria of test-retest
What is a questionnaire?
Software that assists with coding and thematically analysing qualitative data
What is NVivo?
An example of this could be citing Vision 2021
What is including UAE based data?
The core text for PDT4044
What is Cohen et al's book Research Methods in Education?
A method of interview that uses visual images to elicit comments
What is photo elicitation?
Whether the test measures the concept that it's intended to measure.
What is construct validity?
The journal database that allows you to export your literature search into Microsoft Excel.
What is Education Research Complete?
Using words like may/might/can/could
What is tentative language?
When you add AND, NOT and OR to your search.
What is a boolean operator?
The systematic study of purposive change strategies
What is an intervention?
Whether your test covers all aspects of the concept being measured
A chart that allows a researcher to sort and categorize the different arguments presented on an issue
What is a synthesis matrix?
Piloting questionnaires by getting a partner to help you think through the reasons behind choosing your questions
What is cognitive interviewing?
A place you can search for other people's research instruments.
What is APA PsycTests