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QUAL v. QUANT
Ethics
Define It
The Steps of Research
Speaking of Stats
100
Using probes to obtain additional information.
What is qualitative research?
100
A committee of faculty who reviews and approves research so that the rights of humans are protected.
What is Institutional Review Board?
100
Refers to the "peakness" of a distribution.
What is kurtosis?
100
Identifying the major intent of a study and also narrowing it into specific research questions or hypotheses.
What is the purpose for research?
100
Enables the researcher to compare scores from instrument to scores from another instrument. It has a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
What is a z score?
200
Using instruments to measure the variables in the study.
What is quantitative research?
200
A statement that participants sign before they participate in research that includes language that will garauntee them certain rights. When they sign it, they agree to be involved in the study and acknowledge that their rights are protected.
What is an informed consent form?
200
A declarative statement in quantitative research where the researchers makes a prediction about the outcomes of a correlation.
What is a hypothesis?
200
Assessing the quality of a study.
What is evaluation of research?
200
An indicator of the dispersion of spread of the scores. It is equal to the the square root of the variance.
What is the standard deviation?
300
The use of purposeful sampling.
What is qualitative research?
300
When researchers intentionally mislead participants by witholding or omitting information.
What is deception?
300
An attribute ot characteristic that is dependent on or influenced by the the independent variable.
What is a dependent variable?
300
Selecting participants for study, getting their permission to do so, and gathering data by observation or questioning.
What is collecting data?
300
Summary numbers that represent a single value in a distribution. Includes mean, median, and mode.
What are measures of central tendency?
400
Analyzing data using mathematical formulas.
What is quantitative research?
400
Using someone else's work without giving proper credit for the information
What is plagiarism?
400
The process of assigning individuals at random to groups or to different conditions of a group in an experiment. It is a characteristic of a true experiment in research.
What is random assignment?
400
Specifying an issue to study, developing justification for studying it, and suggesting the importance of the study.
What is identifying a research problem?
400
Gives the variable that is directly related to the dependent variable.
What is the coefficient of determination?
500
Identifying a research problem based on trends in the field or on the need to explain why something occurs.
What is quantitative research?
500
Modifying research data to achieve a desired outcome or result.
What is falsification?
500
The second level of measurement that orders or ranks categories without indicating the degree of separation.
What is ordinal measurement?
500
Locating various materials such as books and journals on a specific topic relevant to the research problem.
What is reviewing the literature?
500
This percentage of scores falls between -3 and +3 on a normal distribution curve.
What is 99.7%?