Variables
Measurable characteristics
What is a variable
Introduces an intervention to one group, and compares the outcome to another group who doesn't recieve the intervention.
What is experimental design
Describes the relationship between two varialbes in a single population or the relationship between a single variable in two populations.
What is a Correlation Design
Changes within the subject between time 1 and time 2 of observation/assessment that confound results.
What is maturation
This school of thought assumes that knowledge is conjectural; absolute truth can never be found.
What is postpositivism
The Effect of the cause and effect
What is the Dependent Variable
Describes the characteristics of a sample of event at a single point in time through self-report.
What is a Survey Design
A treatment is introduced to a group, but there is not control group to compare the results to.
What is a Quasi-experimental design
An example would be an observer who is trained to rate a child's intelligibility who gradually adapts to the child's speech patterns.
What is instrumentation.
This school of thought assumes that humans make sense of the world based on their historical and social perspective.
What is constructivism
The Cause of the cause and effect
What is the Independent Variable
Obtaining information from subjects pertianing to their feelings or thoughts through the use of interviews or short answer questions.
What is Qualitative Study
Describes the characteristics of samples that differ on a key characteristic. measured at a single point in time.
What is a Cross-Sectional Study
Based on probability theory, refers to subjects' scores naturally moving toward an average or mean.
What is statistical regression or regression bias or regression to the mean.
This school of thought assumes that truth is what works at the time; it is not based in a strict dualism between the mind and a reality completely independent of the mind.
What is pragmatism
A thing which describes the sample or some characteristic of the phenomenon under study.
What is a Descriptive Variable
Explores in depth a single individual, program, event, or action through the collection of detailed information using a variety of data collection techniques.
What is a Case Study
Data is collected from a sample at selected points over time to describe the changes that occur.
What is a Longitudinal Study
History, maturation, testing, instrumentation, statistical regression, and selection bias.
What are threats to internal validity
This school of thought is collaborative, political, and change and power orientated.
What is transformative
The definition and statement of procedures the researcher is going to use in order to measure a specific variable
What is the operational definition.
Method where the researched attempts to develop a theory based on the analysis of the words of the informants.
What is a Grounded Theory Design
A study of the features and itneractions of a culture by immersion in the natural setting for a period of time.
What is Ethnography
Differential dropping out of some subjects from the comparison groups before the experiment is finished, resulting in differences between the groups that may be unrelated to the treatment effects
What is mortality
Name the three of the five types of Qualitative research designs from the text.
What is Narrative, Phenomenological, Grounded theory, Ethnography and Case Studies.