The research design that learns about the characteristics of a population, like their opinions and behaviors, conducted through interviews and questionnaires.
What is a survey design?
100
The number that appears the most in a data set
What is the mode?
100
Selecting participants so that any individual has equal probability of being selected from the population.
What is simple random sampling?
100
Intentionally selecting individuals and sites to learn or understand the central phenomenon.
What is purposeful sampling?
100
The act of using someone else's work without giving them credit for information.
What is plagiarism?
200
This research design is used to determine the degree of relationship between two or more variables.
What is a correlational research design?
200
X = ΣX/N
What is the mean?
200
1- Who to study
2- Permission to study
3- What types of information to collect
4- Locating and collecting instruments
5- Administrating the data collection
What are the steps of collecting quantitative data?
200
The researcher purposefully selects individuals or sites based on membership in a subgroup the has defining characteristics.
What is homogeneous sampling?
200
A statement that participants must sign before they participate in research.
What is an informed consent?
300
This research design provides the most conclusive and clear cut interpretations of data.
What is an experimental research design?
300
How spread out scores are from the mean
What is the variance?
300
The difference between the sample estimate and the true population score.
What is the sampling error?
300
Purposeful sampling strategy in which the researcher samples people or sites because they can help the researcher generate or discover a theory or specific concepts within the theory.
What is theory/concept sampling?
300
the committee made up of faculty members who review and approve research to protect the rights of the participants.
What is the institutional review board?
400
Used to collect and retell stories of individuals.
What is a narrative research design?
400
The square root of the variance
What is standard deviation?
400
The specification of how you will define and measure the variable in your study.
What is the operational definition?
400
A form of purposeful sampling that in which you study an outlier case or one that display extreme characteristics.
What is extreme sampling
400
The process of gathering open-ended, firsthand information by observing people and places at a research site.
What is observation?
500
A collection, analysis, and mixing of quantitative and qualitative research methods.
What is a mixed method design?
500
The process of taking a score, subtracting it from the mean, and dividing it by the the standard deviation.
What is a Z Score?
500
The procedure that examines the extent to which scores from one sample are stable over time from one test administration to another.
What is test-retest reliability?
500
~Observations
~Interviews and questionnaires
~Documents
~Audiovisual materials
What are types of qualitative data collected?
500
The development of sound evidence to demonstrate that the test interpretation matches its proposed use.