General Terms
A clear, focused, concise, and arguable question around which you center your research.
What is a Research Question?
First-hand, which means the author or researcher obtains the data or information themselves. Means going directly to the source, rather than relying on pre-existing data samples.
What is Primary Research?
These are approaches and techniques used to collect and analyze data to answer research questions, test hypotheses, or explore phenomena.
What are Research Methods?
A subset of individuals, items, or data selected from a larger population for the purpose of conducting research. Allows researchers to gather data and make inferences about the entire population without having to study every member of that population.
What is a Sample?
A fundamental ethical and legal requirement in research and clinical practice, ensuring that participants are fully aware of the nature of the study or treatment, including any potential risks and benefits, before agreeing to take part.
What is Informed Consent?
An educated guess that proposes a possible explanation for an observable phenomenon or a prediction of a possible causal correlation among multiple phenomena.
What is a Hypothesis?
Involves the summary, collation and/or synthesis of existing research. Uses primary research sources as a source of data for analysis.
What is Secondary Research?
Methods involve the collection and analysis of non-numerical data to understand concepts, experiences, or social phenomena.
What is Qualitative Research?
Any characteristic, number, or quantity that can be measured or quantified and that can vary or change among individuals or over time. Are essential because they help to define and quantify the phenomena under study.
What is a Variable?
The ethical and legal duty to protect the privacy of individuals by ensuring that information shared in a trusted environment is not disclosed to unauthorized parties.
What is Confidentiality?
A concise summary of the main point or claim of an essay, research paper, or other piece of writing. It is usually one or two sentences long and appears near the end of the introduction.
What is a Thesis Statement?
A systematic sequence of steps used to collect, analyze, and interpret information to answer a research question or solve a problem.
What is a Research Process?
Methods involve the collection and analysis of numerical data to identify patterns, relationships, or trends.
What is Quantitative Research?
Group in an experimental study that does not receive the treatment or intervention being tested. Group serves as a baseline or standard of comparison for evaluating the effect of the treatment or intervention on the experimental group.
What is a Control Group?
Participants must be provided with all necessary information clearly and understandably. This includes details about the purpose, procedures, risks, benefits, and alternative options related to the study or treatment.
What is Comprehensive Information?
What are the 5 characteristics of Research Question?
What is....
Clear and Specific
Focused
Researchable
Complex
Relevant
A document or section of a document that collects key sources on a topic and discusses those sources in conversation with each other (also called synthesis).
What is a Literature Review?
Combine both quantitative and qualitative approaches to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the research problem
What are Mixed Methods?
The process of systematically applying statistical, logical, or computational techniques to describe, illustrate, condense, recap, and evaluate data. It involves inspecting, cleaning, transforming, and modeling data to discover useful information, concluding, and supporting decision-making.
What is Data Analysis?
Fosters trust between individuals and professionals, such as researchers, healthcare providers, or counselors, by respecting the confidentiality of shared information.
What is Trust and Ethical Responsibility?
This states that there is no effect or no relationship between variables. It is the hypothesis that researchers typically try to disprove or reject. Example: "There is no significant difference in test scores between students who study with music and those who study in silence."
This states that there is an effect or a relationship between variables. It is what researchers hope to support. Example: "Students who study with music have significantly different test scores compared to those who study in silence."
What is a Null Hypothesis (H0)?
What is a Alternative Hypothesis (H1 or Ha)?
What are the steps of a research process?
What is....
Identifying and Defining the Research Problem
Reviewing the Literature
Formulating a Hypothesis or Research Question
Designing the Research
Collecting Data
Analyzing Data
Interpreting Results
Reporting and Disseminating Findings
Reflecting and Evaluating