Quantitative Research Jeopardy

Defintions

100

provides a quantitative or numeric description of trends, attitudes, or opinions of a population by studying a sample of that population.

survey research

200

a term that describes whether one can draw meaningful and useful inferences from scores on the instruments

Validity

300

Refers to whether scores to items are internally consistent.

Reliability

400

A procedure in which participants with certain traits are matched and then randomly assigned to control experimental groups.

Matching participants

500

A procedure used in quantitative research for selecting participants each individual has a equal probability in being selected from the population, reflecting a true representation.

Random sampling

Population/Sample

100

Refers to the group being studied

Population

200

A sampling strategy where the researcher first identifies groups then names within the group.

 multi-staged sampling

300

How can researchers identify the selection process for individuals?

Through random sampling

400

Choose individuals using a random numbers table.

How do you select the sample from available lists?

500

How do you indicate the number of people in a sample?

Use a sample size formula available in many survey texts.

Components

100

To generalize from a sample of a population so inferences can be made about characteristics, attitudes or behaviors.

What is the purpose of a survey research?

200

Discuss advantages of identifying attributes of a large group of population from a small group of individuals.

How do you indicate a survey is the preferred survey type of data collection?

300

1. Self Administered questionnaires 2. Interviews 3. Collect financial or medical or school information 4. Structured observations

What are the four types of data collection?

400

Testing a treatment on a outcome controlling on all other outcomes that might influence that outcome.

What is a experimental design?

500

Cross-sectional- data collected at one point in time. Longitudinal- data collected overtime.

What is cross-sectional and a longitudinal outcome?

Variables

100

A characteristic that can be measured or observed and that varies among the people or organization being studied.

Variable

200

Variables that cause, influence, or affects outcomes.

 Independent variable

300

Variables that depend on the independent variable. They are the outcomes of the influence of the independent variable.

Dependent variable

400

Variables that stand in between the independent and dependent variables. They mediate the effects of the independent variable on the dependent variable.

Mediating variables/ extraneous/ confounding variable 

500

They are new variables constructed by a researcher and multiplying it by another to get a joint impact.

Moderating variables