A process used to collect and analyze information to increase our understanding of a topic or issue.
What is research?
100
Issues, controversies, or concerns that guide the need for conducting a study.
What are research problems?
100
Researchers follow specific procedures during the research process.
What are research designs?
100
A characteristic of an individual or an organization that researchers can measure or observe and varies among individuals or organizations.
What is a variable?
100
The act of using someone’s work without giving credit to the original author.
What is plagiarism?
200
A step in the process of research where the researcher specifies an issue to be examined.
What is identifying a research problem?
200
A written summary of journal articles, books, and other documents that describe the past and current state of information on the topic of your research study.
What is a literature review?
200
A form of quantitative research in which researcher measures the degree of relation between two or more variables.
What is Correlational Designs?
200
An attribute or characteristic that is influenced by another variable.
What is a dependent variable?
200
Statements participants sign before they participate in the research study. The form states the participant’s rights, voluntary participation, and right to know the purpose of the study.
What is an informed consent form?
300
A type of research that requires the researcher to describe a trend or an explanation of a relationship among variables.
What is Quantitative Research?
300
Statements in quantitative research in which the researcher makes a prediction about the outcome of a relationship among characteristics.
What are hypotheses statements?
300
A form of quantitative research that allows the researcher to administer questionnaires to a sample of people in efforts to identify attitudes, opinions, or behaviors.
What is Survey Designs?
300
A characteristic that influences or affects the outcome.
What is an independent variable?
300
An organization that reviews all research involving human participants in an effort to protect the rights and welfare of participants involved in research.
What is the Internal Review Board?
400
A type or research that requires the researcher to explore and develop a detailed understanding of a central phenomenon.
What is Qualitative Research?
400
Statements that provide the overall focus of a study.
What are purpose statements?
400
A form of qualitative research used to generate a general explanation
What is Grounded Theory Designs?
400
An attribute or characteristic that mediates or transmits the effects of the independent variable onto the dependent variable.
What is an intervening variable?
400
Efforts taken by researchers to recognize various cultural or ethnic groups within a society.
What are multicultural considerations?
500
A term used in quantitative or qualitative research that narrows the purpose statement and provides answers to researcher’s inquiries.
What are research questions?
500
A form of qualitative research used by researchers to tell the stories of one or two individuals.
What is Narrative Research Designs?
500
An attribute or characteristic that the researcher cannot directly measure because their effects cannot be easily separated from those of other variables.