Research Design
This type of design must have a control group and random assignment between groups and pretests and posttests.
What is experimental design?
Love, Compassion, Leadership, Positive Parenting, Soft Skills are all examples of these.
What are social constructs?
It has order and intervals are measurable and meaningful.
What is a continuous/ratio variable?
It is the outcome or result.
What is a dependent variable?
An increase in mentoring sessions results in a higher GPA amongst students is an example of this type of relationship.
What is positive?
This research design type has no control group and is sometimes designed with only one group pretest and one group posttest.
What is a non-experimental design?
When conceptualizing social constructs, researchers must define the number of dimensions. In addition, they must define something for each dimension.
What are indicators?
This type measurement has no ranking and can be placed into categories like male/female, young, adult, senior or freshman/sophomore/junior/senior.
What is Nominal variable?
Reflected on the y-axis, this type of variable is also referred to as the outcome variable.
What is dependent?
“As age increases, income increases” is an example of this type of relationship.
What is a positive relationship?
This type of study collects collects post-test data multiple times.
What is longitudinal?
When studying “non-real” ideas, this process is used to quantify social constructs.
What is conceptualization?
A Starbucks order of an Iced Blond Americano black and unsweetened is an example of this variable level of measurement.
What is nominal?
The levels of caffeine a person consumes in relation to their ability to fall asleep, in this example "levels of caffeine" is this type of variable.
What is an independent variable?
This relationship occurs when X moves in the opposite direction of Y.
What is a negative relationship?
The measurement that is taken before the intervention in an experimental design.
Pretest
This step defines the number of indicators.
What is operational definition?
These variables have an order, but there is no meaningful interval between values.
What are ordinal variables?
If a researcher wants to know if one-on-one mentoring will increase graduation rates, what is the dependent variable?
Graduation rates
This type of relationship is very common in the social sciences when stating a hypothesis between X and Y and is represented by a monotonically increasing or decreasing line between X and Y.
What is a linear relationship?
A research project that contains a pre and post test and a control group, but no randomization is an example of what type of research design?
Quasi-Experimental
When conceptualizing social constructs, start by defining these before moving on to indicators.
What are dimensions?
These elements make up the variable and are defined prior to collecting data.
What are attributes?
Also known as "nuisance" variables, you need to account for these in order to compare "apples to apples".
This is a statistic that is used to measure the numerical strength of the relationship between two variables.
What is correlation?