What is considered the best measure of the representative value of a group of scores. It can be found by adding the sum of all scores and dividing by the number of scores in the group
100
a process of steps used to collect and analyze information to increase our understanding of a topic or issue
What is research?
100
Experimental Design
What is a type of research in which you test an idea to determine if it influences an outcome?
200
Standard Deviation
What is calculated by finding the square root of the variance
200
Quantitative research
What is an inquiry approach useful for describing trends and explaining the relationship among variables found in the literature?
200
Ethnographic design
What are qualitative research procedures for describing, analyzing, and interpreting a culture-sharing group's shared patterns of belief, behavior, and languages that develop over time?
300
The number of standard deviations the actual score is above or below the mean
What is a z-score?
300
Qualitative Research
What is an inquiry approach useful for exploring and understanding a central phenomenon?
300
Narrative design
What is a type of research design in which researchers describe the lives of individuals, collect and tell stories about peoples lives, and write narratives of individual experiences?
400
The measure of how spread out a set of scores are
What is the definition of variance?
400
Research Problem
What is an educational issue, concern, or controversy that a researcher investigates?
400
Grounded theory design
What is a systematic, qualitative procedure used to generate a theory that explains a process, an action, or an interaction about a substantive topic?
500
An outlier
What is a score with an extreme value in relation to the other scores in a distribution?
500
Hypothesis
What is a statement of intent used in quantitative research that specifies goals that the investigator plans to achieve in a study?
500
Correlational research design
What is a statistical test that is used to describe and measure the degree of association between two or more variables or sets of scores?