Small-n Quantitative
Small-n Qualitative
Characteristics of Small-n designs
Quasi Experimental Designs
Threats to Internal Validity
100
The A phase...
What is behavior tracked/recorded at baseline phase?
100
Study of a intact cultural group in a natural setting.
What is ethnography?
100
The ability to study rare phenomenon
What is one of the advantages of small-n designs?
100
The hallmark of the quasi experimental design
What is the lack of random assignment?
100
When comparing the impact of a new teaching method on academic performance between high schools, and one high school experiences an event such as a tornado, the researcher's ability to evaluate the impact of the teaching method is impacted by this threat to this nonequivalent control group design
What is a selection history?
200
The B phase
What is Behavior tracked/recorded after the intervention?
200
Researcher uses a theory of a process grounded in the views of the participants....
What is Grounded theory?
200
Small-n designs allow the researcher to innovate
What is one of the advantages of small-n designs?
200
When self efficacy among the elderly in one nursing home is assessed by the number of people guessing the number of jellybeans in a jar, before and after they are given a plant to look after, is an example of the ____quasi experimental design
What is the one-group pre test post test design?
200
The extent to which changes in the Dependent variable can be attributed to the manipulation of the Independent variable (e.g., the impact of exercise classes on weight loss)
What is Internal Validity?
300
When a researcher tries to change the same behaviors (self-help) of different participants (3 autistic children)
What is the multiple baseline method-different participants same behaviors
300
Exploration of an individual, activity, event, process, over a period of time
What is a Case study?
300
The totality of cues providing information about the hypothesis are called...
What are demand characteristics?
300
When self efficacy among the elderly in two nursing homes is assessed by the number of people guessing the number of jellybeans in a jar, before and after they are given a plant to look after, and comparing to the number of people in another home not given a plant, is an example of the ____quasi experimental design
What is nonequivalent control group design?
300
When a researcher tests the effect of a new birth control information session on number of births in a community, and evaluates the birth rate 3 months before and 3 months after the information session, the threat caused by the participants becoming more experienced, is called
What is Maturation?
400
The ACBCBC method; A= baseline; B= placebo control; C=intervention
What is placebo control multiple baseline method?
400
Researcher studies the experience of human phenomenon
What is Phenomenological research?
400
Experimenter effects
What is one of the disadvantages of small-n designs
400
When self efficacy among the elderly in one nursing home is assessed by the number of people guessing the number of jellybeans in a jar three times before and three times after they are given a plant to look after, is an example of the ____quasi experimental design
What is a interrupted time-series design?
400
When a researcher uses multiple measures before and after an intervention, such as assessing the criminal behaviors several times before and after the Therapeutic community intervention, the multiple measures have the advantage of correcting for the following threats to internal validity
What are maturation, statistical regression, testing?
500
By introducing the intervention in a step-wise fashion in a multiple baseline design.
How is the reversal in AB designs achieved?
500
Researcher studies the 'stories' of peoples lives
What is narrative research?
500
Use of reports from significant others whether intervention has made a difference
What is subjective evaluations?
500
When self efficacy among the elderly in two nursing homes is assessed by the number of people guessing the number of jellybeans in a jar, two times before and two times after they are given a plant to look after, and comparing to the number of people in another home not given a plant, is an example of the ____quasi experimental design
What is the interrupted time series with a non-equivalent control group design?
500
The most common threats to internal validity of quasi experimental designs using non equivalent control groups is:
What are selection interactions?
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