This type of research focuses on meaning and detail.
What is qualitative
100
Examines the content of documents.
What is document (or content) analysis.
100
This is a group of people that reviews research projects to make sure ethical standards are met.
What is the Institutional Review Board.
100
This characteristic of written reports means that everything that readers need to know is included.
What is self contained
200
Common practical concerns in social science research could include
What is cost and access to locations
200
This type of research focuses on broader summaries of data or on statistical relationships between variables.
What is quantitative.
200
The only method capable of directly assessing causal relationships.
What is experiment.
200
The form that participants sign before the data collection begins.
What is Informed Consent.
200
This characteristic of high-quality reports means that irrelevant information is excluded.
What is narrowly focused.
300
Research design is often a process that involves
What is reading literature, thought, creativity, or flexibility
300
These provide logical explanations for our data.
What is theory.
300
Requires asking questions that will likely be understood in the same way by a large number of people.
What is fixed-question survey.
300
Ensuring that you will do your best to protect your participants' identity
What is confidentiality
300
This refers to the specific reason why the study was necessary.
What is the research mandate.
400
Good research questions
What is are based on the literature, are capable of being empirically studied, and are practical.
400
This involves deciding how to measure key concepts.
What is operationalization.
400
Are often viewed as extended conversations.
What is in-depth interviews.
400
Asking an entire class to do a research project may violate the standard of
What is voluntary participation.
400
Research questions, data, concepts, data generation techniques, samples, findings, and conclusions should fit together as a ____ .
What is a rational, reasonable, and consistent whole.
500
Understanding the range of theories and the range of findings on your topic is the goal of
What is reviewing existing literature
500
Involves making decisions about what people, places, times, questions, and documents will be a part of the study; the process of narrowing the population down to those actually included in the study.
What is sampling
500
Allows the study of how people act.
What is observation.
500
Written research reports could violate what ethical standards?
What is no harm or openness and honesty.
500
This can be described as a tool kit containing ways to think about and explore the mysteries of social life.