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Variables
Research Designs
Research Designs
Research Designs
Types of Research
100
Measurable characteristics
What is a variable
100
Introduces an intervention to one group, and compares the outcome to another group who doesn't recieve the intervention.
What is experimental design
100
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
100
Describes the relationship between a predictor variable and an outcome variable.
What is a Predictive Study
100
Reseach designed to describe in detail some process, event, or outcome.
What is Descriptive Research
200
Things which exert an effect on the outcome, but are not part of the planned study.
What is an Extraneous Variable
200
Describes the characteristics of a sample of event at a single point in time through self-report.
What is a Survey Design
200
Describes the characteristics of samples that differ on a key characteristic. measured at a single point in time.
What is a Cross-Sectional Study
200
A treatment is introduced to a group, but there is not control group to compare the results to.
What is a Quasi-experimental design
200
Research designed to quantify the strength and the direction of the relationship of two variables.
What is Correlation Research
300
The Effect of the cause and effect
What is the Dependent Variable
300
Obtaining information from subjects pertianing to their feelings or thoughts through the use of interviews or short answer questions.
What is Qualitative Study
300

The highest level of evidence about the effectiveness of an intervention when only an outdated systematic review is available

RCT

300
Data is collected from a sample at selected points over time to describe the changes that occur.
What is a Longitudinal Study
300

Case control trials are

retrospective

400
The Cause of the cause and effect
What is the Independent Variable
400
Investigates the meaning of an experience ina group that has all experienced the same phenomenon.
What is Phenomenology
400
Obtaining information from subjects about a certain topic using scales, grades, or percentages.
What is Quantitative Study
400
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
400
Research that is designed to study the cause.
What is Causality Research
500
A thing which describes the sample or some characteristic of the phenomenon under study.
What is a Descriptive Variable
500
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
500

What studies are useful for identifying prognostic data propectively?

Cohort studies

500
A study of the features and itneractions of a culture by immersion in the natural setting for a period of time.
What is Ethnography
500

The distortion of true findings by factors other than those being studied.

What is a Bias