Research Proposal
A clear statement about an area of concern that exists in theory or within existing practice.
What is a problem statement?
Experiences and reasoning
What are sources of knowledge?
Applied research focused on solving practitioners' local problems
What is Action Research?
Attempts to understand how one or more individuals experience a phenomenon
What is phenomenology?
In an experiment, this is the variable being measured.
What is the dependent variable?
Thoughtful, critical analysis of literature and local perspectives and its connection to the research problem/questions/purpose
What is a literature review?
The scope and limitations of the work is clearly defined.
What is high quality research?
Empowers practitioners and integrates theory and practice
What are strengths of action research?
Select participants that differ on an important characteristic
What is Maximum Variation Sampling?
In an experiment to determine the effects of exercise on motivation, exercise is this.
What is the independent variable?
A technique to select a group of people taken from a larger population
What is the sampling technique?
Drawing this kind of sample of people means everyone has the same probability of being chosen for the study.
What is random sample?
Difficult to generalize and lacks limited amount of knowledge
What are weaknesses of action research?
Moderator leads a discussion with a small group of people
What is focus group?
A non-experimental research that involves a
categorical independent variable
What is causal-comparative research?
Review research studies to ensure that they comply with applicable regulations, meet commonly accepted ethical standards, follow institutional policies, and adequately protect research participants.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
State the hypothesis. Collect data. Accept or reject hypothesis.
What is confirmatory or deductive approach?
Founded by Kurt Lewin that emphasized that research and theory be connected and lead to action
What is Force Field Theory and Change Theory?
Explain new idea
What is Grounded Theory?
An extraneous variable that was not controlled for and altered the relationship between the IV and DV
What is a confounding variable?
A predefined procedural method in the design and implementation of an experiment
What is a protocol?
Dr. Phan decided to study the video game playing habits of her students and therefore demanded that they complete and return a survey regarding their gaming habits. This ethical principle was clearly violated in this study.
What is the right to refuse to participate?
An openly transparent form of ideology-drive research designed to emancipate and reduce oppression of disadvantage groups in society
What is Critical Action Research?
An analytical technique where you sort and organize excerpts of raw data into groups according to attributes, and organize those groups in a structured way to formulate a new theory
What is constant comparative analysis?
In a normal distribution of test scores, this is the percentage of scores that fall at or below the mean score.
What is 50%?