Research General
A systematic investigation to contribute to generalizable knowledge.
What is research?
An objective of qualitative methods
To explore or explain a phenomena
An objective of quantitative methods
To test a theory
Leverages the strengths of these approaches
What are quantitative and qualitative methods?
Refers to the administrative body established to protect study participants
What is the institutional review board (IRB)?
A summary of previously published works on a specific topic.
What is a literature review?
Most common way to assess how people make meaning.
What are interviews?
Data collected by researcher
What is primary data?
These types of questions are well suited for MM
What are "how" and "why" questions?
The Tuskegee Study prompted the development of these principles
What are the Belmont Principles (Principles of Ethical Research)?
Rachel Cannady
Who is our UTSA librarian?
Used to index data, useful for storing and retrieving it during analysis.
What is coding?
Design that allows for causal inference
What is an experiment?
MM are informed by this worldview
What is a practical, or pragmatist, worldview?
Principle describing the need for informed consent
The process of assessing the quality of a manuscript before it is published.
What is the peer-review process?
What is "reflexivity"?
Refers to a characteristic of a sample describing how comparable it is to the population.
What is sample representativeness?
What is explanatory sequential design?
A living individual about whom a researcher obtains data
What is a human subject?
Data that is based on direct experience or observation
What is empirical?
This is achieved when adding more data will not reveal new findings.
What is theoretical saturation?
A variable or trait that is not directly observable.
What is a latent trait (variable)?
What is exploratory sequential design?
Research that is not considered to be under IRB oversight
What is "IRB-exempt"? Also ok: What is research not dealing with humans