This is one of the most challenging aspects of conducting research.
What is clearly identifying the "problem" that leads to a need for a study?
100
To describe trends or to determine individual opinions about policy issues are reasons for this.
What is when to use a survey design?
100
The research problem, the questions, and the literature review help steer the researcher toward either of these.
What is the qualitative or quantitative track?
100
The mean, median, and mode.
What are the measures of central tendency?
100
When a write-up includes statements about causation rather than relationships, there is this problem in this type of research.
What is an ethical issue in correlational research?
200
To better understand research problems, they need to be distinguished from these three other parts of the research process.
What are the research topic, purpose, and questions?
200
In this type of research design, a treatment is given to participants by the researcher.
What is experimental research?
200
In qualitative research, a major characteristic is exploring a problem and developing a detailed understanding of this.
What is a central phenomenon?
200
These three measures indicate the variability in a distribution of scores.
What is the range, variance, and standard deviation?
200
This process of selecting participants in experimental research can raise ethical concerns centered around withholding treatments from individuals in control groups.
What is random assignment?
300
Reasons for this include 1) if the study contributes to educational knowledge or 2) adds to the effectiveness of practice.
What are the two reasons a researcher SHOULD research a problem?
300
The systematic design, the emerging design, and the constructivist design are all types of this.
What are grounded theory designs?
300
In quantitative research, a major characteristic involves creating purpose statements, research questions, and hypotheses described with these four words.
What are specific, narrow, measurable, and observable?
300
This is a form of the standard score that has a mean of "0" and a standard deviation of "1".
What is a z score?
300
Placing data collectors at risk for their safety is an ethical violation of this type of research.
What is survey research?
400
This is a written summary of journal articles, books, and other documents that describe the past and current state of information on the topic of a research study.
What is a literature review?
400
Displays of scores, associations between scores, and multiple variable analysis are all characteristics of this research design.
What is correlational design?
400
Experimental, correlational, and survey research designs are used in this category of research design.
What is quantitative research?
400
This is the probability that a result could have been produced by chance if the null hypothesis were true.
What is a p value?
400
Ethical issues in ethnographic research relate to this.
What are fieldwork concerns?
500
This is a statement of intent used in quantitative research that specifies goals that the investigator plans to achieve in a study.
What is a research objective?
500
Collecting the experiences of an individual and restorying are major characteristics of this type of research.
What is narrative research?
500
Grounded theory, ethnographic, and narrative research designs are used in this category of research design.
What is qualitative research design?
500
This statistical test of significance is said to have more power, meaning its more likely that the null hypothesis will be rejected.
What is a one-tailed test of significance?
500
Questioning the authenticity of a story and determining who owns the told story are ethical concerns for this type of research design.