A written summary of journal articles, books, and other documents that describes the past and current state of information on the topic of a research study.
What is a Literature Review?
100
A statement that participants sign before they participate in research.
What is a Informed Consent Form?
100
A widely used way of describing the spread of a group of scores by taking the square root of the variance.
What is Standard Deviation?
100
The association between two variables or sets of scores is a correlation coefficient of -1.00 to +1.00 (with 0.00 = no linear association at all).
What is Degree of Association?
100
Occurs when the null hypothesis is rejected by the researcher when it is actually true.
What is a Type I Error?
200
Identify key terms, locate literature, critically evaluate and select literature, organize the literature, write a literature review.
What are the 5 steps in conducting a Literature Review?
200
A committee made up of faculty members who review and approve research so that the research protects the rights of the participants.
What is an IRB (Internal Review Board)?
200
The number of standard deviations the actual score is above or below the mean.
What is a Z-Score?
200
Assesses the proportion of variability in one variable that can be determined or explained by a second variable.
What is the Coefficient of Determination?
200
Occurs when the researcher fails to reject the null hypothesis when an effect actually occurs in the population. The probability of this error rate is called beta.
What is a Type II Error?
300
The literature focuses on the same topic as the proposed research study.
What is topic relevance?
300
Can sometimes be justified as essential for investigating a particular phenomenon.
What is Outright Deception?
300
Different types of T-Tests.
What are Independent and Dependent T-Tests?
300
The probability (p) that a result could have been produced by chance if the null hypothesis were true.
What is a P-Value?
300
Suggestions for the importance of the study for different audiences.
What are Implications?
400
A visual picture of the literature you have found.
What is a Literature Map?
400
Respect for Persons, Beneficence, and Justice.
What are the Three Basic Ethical Principles for conducting research?
400
Scores from an instrument are stable and consistent.
What is Reliability?
400
Summary numbers the represent a single value in a distribution of scores, expressed as mean, median or mode.
What are Measures of Central Tendency?
400
Potential weaknesses or problems with the study identified by the researcher.
What are Limitations?
500
The research problem, the research questions or hypotheses, data collection procedure, results of the study.
What are the elements of a quantitative research study abstract?
500
Informed Consent, Risk/Benefit Assessment, and the Selection of Research Subjects.
What are the Three General Principle Applications to conduct research?
500
A hypothesis-testing procedure used when the variables of interest are nominal variables.
What is a Chi-Square Test?
500
Identify the null and alternative hypothesis, set the level of significance (alpha level) for rejecting the null hypothesis, collect data, compute the sample statistic, and make a decision.
What are the 5 steps of Hypothesis Testing?
500
One indicates general tendencies in the data and the other draws conclusions about an unknown population.
What is the Difference between Descriptive and Inferential Statistics?