Research done to develop or improve a specific product, procedure, or program.
What is action research?
100
Summarized reports of performance.
What are records?
100
A structured procedure for questioning respondents.
What is a survey or a questionnaire?
100
Each individual in a population has an equal chance to be selected as a participant.
What is random sampling?
100
Relationships among variables.
What is correlation?
200
Research that yields extensive narrative data.
What is qualitative research?
200
Formalized ways of operating in the educational setting.
What are procedures?
200
Usually conducted face to face or by telephone with a limited number of individuals to obtain more in-depth information.
What is an interview?
200
The data are what they are purported to be; what was measured was what was intended to be measured.
What is validity?
200
Depicted through percentile rankings, grade or age equivalents, and stanines.
What is relative standing?
300
Research that explores traits and situations from which numerical data are obtained and analysis is statistical.
What is quantitative research?
300
Also known as subjects, they are specially selected to be researched.
What are participants?
300
A well used educational tool. The two main types are criterion-referenced and norm-referenced.
What is a test?
300
Taking a group of participants simply because they are available.
What is convenience sampling?
300
The amount of spread or dispersion in the scores.
What is variability?
400
Research that combines qualitative and quantitative methods.
What is mixed methods?
400
Include written papers, journal articles, curriculum guides, photos, drawings, and illustrations.
What are documents?
400
Measurement obtains information by comparing participants' performance against an established scale. These are common type of scales.
What is interval scale, ordinal scale, or nominal scale?
400
Use this to categorize qualitative data to simplify analysis.
What is a coding scheme?
400
Used to make estimates about the population based on what has been learned from the sample.
What are inferential statistics?
500
The research method that would be used to assess the HSA data.
What is the quantitative method?
500
Books, supplies, materials, and artifacts.
What are objects?
500
A popular software program for analyzing quantitative data.
What is SPSS?
500
The numerical indices that describe a population, such as the number of individuals included, the measurements made of them, and the descriptions of averages and relationships among those measurements.
What are parameters?
500
The disparity between a given statistic and its corresponding parameter value.