Worldviews & Philosophical Approaches
What term is used to represent a basic set of beliefs that guide action.
What is a worldview.
Quasi-Experimental research is one form of _________ design
What is quantitative
A guess or statement of prediction
A common approach to capturing qualitative data about lived experience.
What is an interview.
What is the measure of central tendency that represents the average of a distribution
What is the mean.
This philosophical stance deals with knowledge and the desire to add to the body of knowledge
What is the epistemological stance.
A design of inquiry in which the researcher describes the lived experiences of individuals about a phenomenon as described by participants.
What is phenomenological research.
What is Pearson Coefficient of Correlation.
A form of research inquiry that is focused on the relevant stories of participants.
What is narrative research.
The theory that was derived from the gambling study we watched was the theory of _____________.
What is the near miss.
________ ___________ believe that individuals seek understanding of the world in which they live.
What is social constructivists.
What is grounded theory.
A key differentiator of experimental designs.
What is a control group.
A mechanism used to extract meaning from raw qualitative data. It organizes data by bracketing chunks of text and applying a label.
What is coding
When citing ___________, you need the author, year and page number.
What is direct quotes
This worldview holds that research inquiry needs to be intertwined with politics and a political change agenda to confront social change.
What is the transformative worldview.
A mixed methods approach in which the researcher first conducts quantitative research, analyzes the results and then uses qualitative results to provide further explanation.
What is explanatory sequential mixed methods.
A measure that provide an indication of the "center of a distribution".
What is a measure of central tendency.
An ________________ seeks to provide a cultural portrait of a population.
What is enthnography.
__________ ___________ is a measure of variation in a sample. It is closely related to variance.
What is standard deviation
This worldview is typically associated with mixed method research approaches.
What is the pragmatic worldview
A mixed methods approach in which the researcher conducts qualitative research and uses the results to inform the construction of a quantitative phase of inquiry.
What is exploratory sequential mixed methods.
A proof of causation must include temporal precedence, covariation of variables and the elimination of _________________.
In semi-stuctured interviews, this is a way for the researcher to ask for more details on a specific question.
What is probing.
A form of reasoning that goes from analyzing specific occurrences to creating general theories.
What is inductive.