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Research
Qualitative VS. Quantitative
Statistics
Sampling
Mixed Methods
100
a Topic
What is a broad subject matter addressed by the study?
100
Quantitative
What is the research method that addresses variables and numbers?
100
Nominal
What is the lowest level of measurement?
100
Population
What is a group of individuals who have the same characteristics?
100
Qualitative and Quantitative
What are the two methods utilized in a mixed method research design?
200
a Purpose
What is a major intent or objective of the study used to address the problem?
200
Qualitative
What is the research method that addresses a central phenomenon and/or context?
200
Skewness
What is the degree to which a distribution departs from symmetry?
200
Sample
What is a subgroup of the target population that the researcher plans to study for generalizing about the target population?
200
Convergent Parallel Design
What is a mixed method type of design where you collect data at the same time and merge the results?
300
a Question
What is something that narrows the purpose into specific questions that the researcher would like answered in the study?
300
Dependent Variable
What is a characteristic that is influenced by the independent variable? Also called the Outcome.
300
Kurtosis
What is the "peakedness" of a distribution?
300
Snowball Sampling
What is a sampling where the researcher asks participants to identify others to join the study?
300
Exploratory Sequential Design
What is a mixed method design where the emphasis is on qualitative data?
400
a Problem
What is a general educational issue, concern, or controversy addressed in research that narrows the topic?
400
Intervening Variable
What is the variable that comes between the independent and dependent variables?
400
Mesokurtic
What is a normal, kurtosis distribution called?
400
Informed Consent
What is the most important thing to obtain to protect the privacy and confidentiality of the participants?
400
the Transformative Design
What is the mixed method design that addresses a social issue and aims to bring about change in society?
500
Qualitative and Quantitative.
What are the two types of research?
500
Confounding Variables
What is a variable that you cannot directly measure? Also called a Spurious Variable.
500
Leptokurtic
What is a positively skewed, kurtosis distribution called?
500
Systematic Sampling
What is a sampling where you choose every nth individual or site until your sample size is completed?
500
the Multiphase Design
What is the most time-consuming, and difficult, mixed method design that examines a problem through multiple phases?