Recognizing educational issues, controversies, or concerns that guide the need for conducting a study.
What is identifying a research problem?
100
Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, and Ratio
What are the 4 Scales of Measurement?
100
The prediction about the population that is typically stated using the language of "no difference"
What is a null hypothesis?
100
Experimental, Correlational, Survey, Grounded Theory, Ethnographic, Narrative Research, Mixed Methods and Action Research Designs.
What are the eight different research designs?
100
A group of individuals who have the same characteristic.
What is a population?
200
Making known the major intent or objective of the study used to address the problem.
What is stating the purpose?
200
The summary numbers that represent a single value in a distribution of scores (Mean, median, and mode)
What are measures of central tendency?
200
Making decisions about results by comparing an observed value of a sample with a population value to determine if no difference or relationship exists between the values.
What is hypothesis testing?
200
Random assignment, control over extraneous variables, manipulation of the treatment condition, outcome measures, group comparisons, threats to validity.
What are the characteristics of the experimental design?
200
when a researcher selects individuals from the population who are representative of that population.
What is probability sampling?
300
Locating, selecting and summarizing resources.
What is reviewing the literature?
300
The spread of the scores in a distribution as indicated by the range, variance, and standard deviation.
What are the measures of variability?
300
The critical region for rejection of a null hypothesis that is divided into two areas at the tails of the sampling distribution.
What is a two-tailed test?
300
The explanatory design and the prediction design.
What are the different correlational designs?
300
Institutions or organizational, specific sites, a participant or group of participants, parents of participants, the university or college institutional review board.
What are the different types of permissions?
400
Selecting individuals to study, obtaining permissions and gathering information.
What is collecting data?
400
A calculated score that enables a researcher to compare scores from different scales.
What is a standard score?
400
When the p value of the observed scores is less than the predetermined alpha level set by the researcher.
What is statistical significance?
400
A systematic, qualitative procedure used to generate a theory that explains, at a broad conceptual level, a process, an action, or an interaction about a substantive topic.
What is a grounded theory design?
400
Examines the extent to which scores from one sample are stable over time from one test administration to another.
What is the test-retest reliability?
500
Breaking down, representing, and explaining the data
What is analyzing and interpreting data?
500
Statistics that describe one score relative to a group of scores.
What are measures of relative standing?
500
When the researcher fails to reject the null hypothesis.
What is a Type II error?
500
Social and personal experiences of an individual, Chronology of experiences, Life stories, restorying, themes or categories, context or place, collaboration.
What are the major characteristics of a narrative research design?
500
a statement that participants sign before they participate in research.