This is an advantage the experimental design has over non-experimental approaches.
What is controlling the effects of other variables?
100
This type of research involves the same set of questions administered to a large number of individuals.
What is survey research?
100
In this type of observation the goal is to remain aloof.
What is non-participant observation?
100
These are advantages of using available data.
What are cheap, convenient, and not requiring IRB and informed consent?
100
These are the units about which information is collected.
What are units of analysis?
200
These are the time points at which you measure control and experimental groups in experimental designs.
What is before and after treatment?
200
This is when those who respond to a survey are different from those who do not respond.
What is nonresponse bias?
200
This is the type of situation in which observation is most useful.
What is when you do not know much about the subject under investigation?
200
The “Garbage Project” included an example of this type of measure.
What is an erosion measure?
200
It is important for researchers to be aware of this when conducting qualitative interviews.
What are reactions to respondent’s answers?
300
When it is impossible to measure a condition before an experiment is conducted, one can employ this research design.
What is a post-test only design?
300
This is the phenomenon when answers to the same question will vary depending on how the question is asked.
What is the interviewer effect?
300
This is the type of sampling most used for participant observation.
What is purposive sampling?
300
This is what distinguishes evaluation research from basic research.
What are immediate usefulness and specific practical implications?
300
This is original data a researcher collects for her own purposes.
What is primary data?
400
This is the type of experiment when neither the subjects nor the researchers know who is in experimental and control groups.
What is a double-blind experiment?
400
This is the key difference between a group interview and a focus group.
What is a moderator’s management of the discussion?
400
This is the role of a researcher who primarily observes and takes field notes but occasionally interacts directly with participants.
What is observer as participant?
400
Census data is an example of this.
What are statistics that summarize data at the aggregate level?
400
These are the types of sampling that can be used in content analysis.
What are simple, random, or stratified?
500
These are threats to internal validity which experimental designs can prevent.
What are maturation, history, and testing effect?
500
An unstructured interview is used to do this.
What is gather in depth and detailed stories from individuals about their experiences?
500
This is when an research finds that interviewees or settings seem very similar to interviewees or settings a researcher observed previously.
What is theory saturation?
500
This is when people misleadingly make inferences about certain types of individuals from information about groups that might not be exclusively composed of those individuals.
What is an ecological fallacy?
500
This displays the number of cases that fall in each category.