Experimental Research
What is causation (or causality)?
Documentation for a data set that explains details about the data structure, measured variables, etc.
What is a codebook?
When participants, during online and mobile surveys, sign up to be part of a survey panel just for the incentives offered.
What is survey fraud?
Designed to give the respondent the opportunity to answer in their own words.
What is an open-ended question?
Group of subjects or other unit of interest that receives the treatment in experimental research.
What is experimental group?
Data containing spatially referenced information (e.g., latitude & longitude, block groups, etc.)
What is geospatial data?
Written, printed, or electronic survey instruments that a respondent completes.
*Opposite is "interviews"
What is a Questionnaire?
The most basic and most important data recording technique used in qualitative research. This should include everything a researcher observes.
What is a fieldnote?
Occur outside of laboratories or other artificial locations and in the natural world.
What is a natural experiment?
Occurs when no data are recorded for a particular variable.
What is Missing data?
Ways in which surveys can be administered. There are four primary types of this.
What are survey modes?
Role conception in which the researcher only observes and does not participate or conduct interviews at all.
What is a complete observer?
Research design that has three defining characteristics: 1) experimental & control group, 2) random assignment, 3) manipulation of treatment.
What is true experiment?
Local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement program that provides one of the two national measures of crime in the United States. (Reported crime data collected via law enforcement agencies)
What is Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR)?
Proportion of surveys returned relative to the total number of surveys fielded.
What is Response rate?
A type of systematic qualitative research in which the researcher's goal is to gather a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the culture, environment, and social phenomenon associated with a group or with individuals in a group.
What is Ethnography?
Related to the degree to which a researcher can conclude a causal relationship among variables in an experiment. (Is the causal relationship really from IV's influence?)
Most often used online source for secondary data, located at the University of Michigan.
It includes the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data.
What is ICPSR?
Occurs when the ordering of questions on a survey influences the responses given to later questions.
What is question-order effect?
Systematic collection, review, evaluation, synthesis, and interpretation of documents to gain meaning and understanding.
What is a document analysis?