SPSS
In SPSS, there is a data view and a __________ view
What is a variable view?
The influencing variable
What is an Independent Variable?
IRB
What is Institutional Review Board?
In any type of research design, the optimal type of sampling method
What is random sampling?
The Minnesota Vikings
What is Dr. Culclasure's favorite NFL team?
Zero (when looking at SPSS output)
What is the null's favorite number?
Mean, median, and mode
What are measures of central tendency?
The step that comes after defining the concepts used in a hypothesis...deciding how to measure these concepts in the real world.
What is operationalization?
In designing survey research, designing this type of question and forcing respondents to answer two questions at once. It is the most common survey mistake.
What is a double-barreled question?
Research in which data are not in numerical form but text, photographs, and so on...typically interviews, focus groups, etc.
What is qualitative research?
Appropriate test for "strength of association" when you are testing a hypothesis with ordinal level variables
What is Somer's d
The measure of how spread out numbers are
What is standard deviation?
A ____________ is a subset of the population you are researching
What is a sample?
The gold standard of research designs
What is a randomized control trial/randomized experimental design?
Mean, median, and mode
What are measures of central tendency?
The value you use to determine statistical significance in hypothesis testing
What is a p-value?
A step beyond saying variables are associated with each other or correlated.
What is causality or causation?
The extent to which an experiment yields the same results on repeated trials
What is reliability?
In experimental research designs, it is the group that is compared with the group that receives the treatment or intervention
What is a control group?
A synthesis of the research that has been done related to your topic
What is a literature review?
Statistical test used when you are comparing two groups and the dependent variable is interval and independent variable is nominal or ordinal
What is Independent Samples T Test
Think about the relationship between the following variables...Shoe size and reading performance of elementary school students.
This is an example of a _____________ relationship
What is spurious?
Type of sampling where elements are selected from each strata in proportion to each strata’s representation in the entire population
What is a stratified sample?
Research designs that have several key features of a randomized experimental design, but lack random assignment to groups
What is a quasi-experimental design?
The degree to which the conclusions in your study would hold for other persons in other places and at other times (extent to which results are generalizable to the entire population)
What is external validity?