General Principles
This type of research focuses on the collection of word data either spoken or written.
What is qualitative research?
This type of research is a quantitative study to explore the degree of relationship between variables.
What is correlation research?
This data collection technique is generally considered to be the most common type of quantitative research instrument.
What is a survey or a questionnaire?
This is a representative subset of a larger population.
What is sampling?
This measure of central tendency is calculated by adding up all the numbers in a data set and dividing it by how many numbers there are.
What is the mean?
This type of research is original research where data is collected.
What is primary research?
This type of investigation is usually done by teachers to help them solve problems in their own work context.
What is action research?
This is when researchers combine data collection techniques from both qualitative and quantitative research.
What is mixed methods research?
This type of sampling is when researchers use people in their sample that are easy to access or they have ready access to.
What is convenience sampling?
This value occurs most frequently in a data set.
What is mode?
All researchers must explain their research to their participants and obtain permission for their study to be deemed ethical.
What is informed consent?
This type of research involves a detailed analysis of a person, group, or thing over a long period of time.
What is case study research?
This type of data collection technique is very common in ethnographic research.
What is observation?
This type of sampling is where everyone in the population has an equal opportunity to be part of the sample.
What is random sampling?
This number represents the mid point of a data set.
What is the median?
This property relates to the degree or how well the research instrument measures what it is supposed to measure.
What is validity?
This type of research deals with the study of behavior within a society and generally involves observation and field notes.
What is ethnography?
This type of interview is one where researchers follow a general script but have the flexibility of asking follow-up off script questions.
What is a semi-structured interview?
This sampling technique is where a researcher sub divides the total population into different- equally sized groups.
What is stratified sampling?
This is a statistical procedure that shows how dispersed the measurement is from the mean as a point of reference.
What is standard deviation?
Researchers use this to give credit to the secondary research they have consulted to inform their own research.
What is citation and referencing?
This reflective process is done by the researcher on various aspects of the research.
What is introspection?
In this type of data collection, researchers gather quantitative data for the purpose of testing hypotheses.
What is experimental data collection?
This type of sampling is generally recognized as the most powerful sampling technique in research.
What is random sampling or probability sampling?
This statistical procedure is used to compare the mean differences among two or more levels of an independent variable.
What is ANOVA?