Process of Conducting Research
Experimental Designs
Survey Designs
Grounded Theory Designs
Narrative & Ethnographic Designs
100
A process of steps used to collect and analyze information to increase our understanding of a topic or issue.
What is research?
100
Researchers use these to equate the characteristics of groups before and after an experiment.
What are pretests and posttests?
100
You use this to describe trends.
What is survey research design?
100
This process involves the researcher posing a question that relate to the categories and returning to the data to look for evidence, incidents, and events to develop a theory.
What is discriminant sampling?
100
These represent information from different sources collected by researcher.
What are field texts?
200
To name a few, identifying a research problem, reviewing the literature, and specifying a purpose for research are steps in this.
What is process of research?
200
Variables that a researcher controls for using statistics and that relate to the dependent variable but do not relate to the independent variable.
What are covariates?
200
A longitudinal survey design in which a researcher identifies a subpopulation based on some specific characteristic and then studies that subpopulation over time.
What is a cohort study?
200
A statement that indicate the relationship among categories that include causal conditions, a core category, the context, intervening conditions, strategies, and consequences.
What is a theoretical proposition?
200
Qualitative research procedure for describing, analyzing, and interpreting a culture-sharing group's shared patterns of behavior.
What is ethnographic design?
300
In this form of data analysis, one would analyze the data using mathematical procedures called statistics.
What is quantitative data analysis?
300
During this, a researcher physically intervenes to alter the conditions experienced by the experimental unit.
What is experimental treatment?
300
A target population is a synonym.
What is a sampling frame?
300
An abstract explanation or understanding of a process about a substantive topic grounded in data.
What is theory in grounded theory research?
300
These are the most recurring, apparent categories of ethnographic designs.
What are realist ethnography, case study, and critical ethnography?
400
A key concept, idea, or process studied in qualitative research.
What is central phenomenon?
400
A process in which an experimental researcher manipulates one or more of the treatment variable conditions.
What is intervention?
400
A procedure to check for response bias in which investigators group returns by intervals and check to see if the answers to a few select questions change from the first week to the final week in a study.
What is wave analysis?
400
Systematic, Emerging, and Constructivist are all this.
What are types of grounded theory designs?
400
This form captures an everyday, normal form of data while remaining focused on individual stories.
What is narrative research?
500
Experimental, correlation, survey, grounded theory, ethnographic, narrative, mixed methods, and action research are all different types of this.
What are research designs?
500
The smallest unit treated by the researcher during an experiment.
What is an experimental unit of analysis?
500
Survey researchers emphasize this of a sample from a population to which they can generalize results.
What is sample selection?
500
The most likely reason grounded theory is used over other existing theories.
What is little applicability to special populations?
500
In narrative research there are 7 of these. Can you name them? :-D
What are characteristics central to the research? 1. Individual experiences, 2. chronology of experiences, 3. collecting individual stories, 4. restorying, 5. coding for themes, 6. context or setting, 7. collaborating with participants.
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