Questions that narrow the purpose statement to specific questions that researchers seek to answer.
What is research question
100
The degree of relationship or association between two variables.
What is correlation?
100
Procedure includes assignment, but not random assignment of participants to groups.
What is a quasi-experiment?
100
A longitudinal survey design in which a researcher identifies a subpopulation based on some specific characteristic and then studies that subpopulation over time.
What is a cohort study?
100
A form of purposeful sampling in which the researcher studies an outlier case or one that displays extreme characteristics.
What is extreme case sampling?
200
Attributes or characteristics that the researcher cannot directly measure because their effects cannot be easily separated from those of other variables, even though they may influence the relation between the independent and the dependent variable.
What is confounding variable
200
Demonstrating that the test results matches its proposed use.
What is validity?
200
Experimental design where all participants in a single group participate in all experimental treatments, with each group becoming its own control.
What is a repeated measures design?
200
A type of question that asks a closed-ended question and then asks for additional responses in an open-ended question.
What is a semi-closed-ended question?
200
Subquestions under each question that the researcher asks to elicit more information.
What are probes?
300
The method of data collection when researchers divide the population on some specific characteristic (e.g. gender) and then, using simple random sampling, sample from each subgroup of the population.
What is stratified sampling?
300
The probability that a result could have been produced by chance if the null hypothesis were true.
What is p value?
300
A correlational design with the purpose of identifying variables that will predict an outcome or criterion.
What is a prediction research design?
300
A form of action research with the purpose of researching a specific situation with a view toward improving practice.
What is practical action research?
300
Similar codes aggregated together to form a major idea in the database.
What are themes?
400
This type of reliability involves using two instruments, both measuring the same variables and relating the scores for the same group of individuals to the two instruments.
What is alternative forms reliability.
400
Error that occurs when the null hypothesis is rejected by the research when it is actually true?
What is Type I error?
400
A pictorial image displayed on a graph of two sets of scores for participants.
What is a scatterplot?
400
A form of action research with the purpose to improve the quality of people's organizations, communities, and family lives.
What is participatory action research?
400
The validation process of corroborating evidence from different individuals, types of data, or methods of data collection in descriptions and themes in qualitative research.
What is triangulation?
500
The square root of variance and is an indicator of the dispersion or spread of the scores.
What is standard deviation?
500
The procedure for making decisions about results by comparing an observed value of a sample with a population value to determine if no difference or relationship exists between the values.
What is hypothesis testing?
500
A method of participant assignment in which one or more personal characteristics that influence the outcome and assigning individuals with that characteristic equally to the experimental and control groups.
What is matching?
500
Systematic procedures done by teachers (or other educators) to gather information about, and subsequently improve, the ways their particular educational setting operates, their teaching, and their student learning.
What is action research?
500
Information that does not support or confirm the themes and provides contradictory information about a theme.