QUALITATIVE DESIGNS
QUANTITATIVE DESIGNS
DATA ANALYSIS
RESEARCH PAPERS AND POSTERS
MISCELLANEOUS
100

A study that seeks to develop a theory.

What is grounded theory?

100
This type of study uses randomization, a control group, and manipulation.

What is an RCT or true experiment?

100

The data analysis method most commonly used in qualitative research

What is coding?

100

This section of a research paper includes the findings of the data analysis.

What is Results?

100

The type of evidence synthesis tool that provides recommendations for treating specific conditions

What are clinical practice guidelines or CPGs?

200

The type of study that explores a concept or seeks to understand an experience--for example, being a graduate student during the COVID-19 pandemic.

What is phenomenology?

200
In an example of this type of study, researchers want to compare two classes of 4th graders, one of which is participating in a new social-emotional learning program (the other class is getting the standard curriculum). 

What is quasi-experimental?

200

This step in the coding process involves first identifying simple categories from the data.

What is open coding?

200

A section that is not required on an academic poster.

What is an Abstract?

200

The threat to internal validity that this represents: During a trial of a new assistive technology device, several participants leave the study due to the difficulty of using the device.

What is attrition?

300
A study that aims to describe a culture--for example, that of diehard Lakers or Clippers fans.

What is ethnography?

300

This type of design is also called a case experiment.

What is single-subject?

300

The purpose of inferential statistics

What is to statistically reject the null hypothesis?

300

Where researchers describe what they did when they conducted their study

What is Methods or Methodology?

300

The type of research that involves both qualitative and quantitative approaches.

What is mixed methods or mixed methodology?

400

A study that uses self-reflection to explore the researcher's personal experiences.

What is auto-ethnography?

400

A single cohort receives a novel peer-assisted learning intervention. Their test performance is recorded before and after the intervention.

What is a pre/post or pre-experimental design?

400

This type of hypothesis explains why we may see a difference between groups.

What is an alternative hypothesis?

400

What researchers must already have when they propose to present their research at an academic conference

What is data?

400
The strategy for promoting trustworthiness that this represents: Researchers use surveys, interviews, and artifacts to support their conclusions.

What is triangulation?

500

This type of qualitative design seeks to tell a story.

What is narrative?

500

A study investigates the relationship between cases of COVID-19 and rates of mask-wearing across states.

What is correlational?

500
The meaning of an alpha level of 0.05

What is 95% confidence that the observed difference is a true difference?

500

The purpose of an academic poster presentation

What is to exchange ideas with colleagues (and/or facilitate dialogue with colleagues)?

500

Control groups limit these threats to internal validity.

What are history and maturation?

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