There is a major role for this in quantitative research, used to justify your research problem, and give sufficient background.
Literature Review
100
Explores a problem and develops a detailed understanding of a central phenomenon.
What is Qualitative Research?
100
Use this type of research design when you want to establish possible cause and effect relationships between variables.
What is Experimental Design?
100
In this type of curve, 68% of the sample fall in one standard deviation from the mean.
What is a normal curve?
200
It's important that researcher's use this type of sampling, selecting "information rich" participants and sites.
What is purposeful sampling?
200
This is only needed in quantitative research, and predicts the relationship (if any) between variables.
Hypothesis
200
This doesn't play as large of a role as it does in Quantitative Research, but it is still needed to justify the research problem.
What is Literature Review?
200
This procedure for assigning groups is experimental research is the most rigorous, but also the best for a "true" experiment.
What is random assignment?
200
If a researcher were comparing two sets of scores, for example one set from a group of students who received a specialized tutor program, to a set from a group of students who did not, he or she would want to look at this score.
What is the t test for independent means?
300
In this type of sampling, one participant leads to other participants and so on.
What is snowball sampling?
300
"There will be no correlation between reading teacher and achievement scores in the 8th grade population of KC Middle School"
What is a null hypothesis
300
In qualitative research, you may have difficulty defining these, so you need to explore more freely than quantitative research will allow.
What are variables?
300
This type of research design will ask questions to a sample or entire population to describe attitudes, opinions, behaviors, or characteristics.
What is a survey design?
300
A hypothesis testing procedure in which there are two scores for each person and the population variance is not known.
What is t test for dependent means?
400
A population may consist of many of these, that the researcher intends to use to make generalizations about the entire population.
What is a sample?
400
"Based on growth percentages in the previous two years, 8th grade students who are in Mrs. Cusac's Language Arts class in KC Middle School will score higher on achievement tests than 8th grade students who have other Language Arts teachers at KC middle school" is an example of this.
What is an Alternative Hypothesis?
400
Interviewing all middle school reading teachers who have tried a particular teaching strategy would be an example of this.
What is homogeneous sampling?
400
In this design, three phases of coding exist: open coding, axial coding, and selection coding.
What is grounded theory?
400
The mean, median, and mode are referred to as this.
What are measures of central tendency?
500
An attribute or characteristic that is abstract, while variables are more concrete and measurable.
What is a construct.
500
"There is a difference in standardized test scores between children who's parents read to them as toddlers, and those who's parents did not" is an example of this.
What is a non-directional hypothesis?
500
Asking these should lead participants to clarify their responses.
What are clarifying probes?
500
This type of design is used for describing, analyzing, and interpreting a culture-sharing group's shared patterns of behavior, beliefs, and language that develop over time.