Worldviews
A basic set of beliefs that guide action.
Worldview
Quasi-Experimental research is one form of _________ design
Quantitative
A guess or statement of prediction.
Hypothesis
A common approach to capturing qualitative data about lived experience.
Interview
It is the measure of central tendency that represents the average of a distribution.
Mean
This worldview is sometimes called the scientific method.
Postpositivism
A design of inquiry in which the researcher describes the lived experiences of individuals about a phenomenon as described by participants.
Phenomenological Research
This sampling technique is most desirable in a quantitative approach.
Random sampling
A form of research inquiry that is focused on the relevant stories of participants.
Narrative research
Appendix is found after this section of the research paper.
References
They believe that individuals seek understanding of the world in which they live.
Social Constructivists
A research design that focuses on the development of a general, abstract theory grounded in the views of participants.
Grounded Theory
A key differentiator of experimental designs.
Control group
A mechanism used to extract meaning from raw qualitative data.
Coding
When citing ___________, you need the author, year, and page number.
Direct quotes
This worldview holds that research inquiry needs to be intertwined with politics and a political change agenda to confront social change.
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.
Explanatory sequential mixed methods
This type of validity evaluates whether a measurement tool really represents the thing we are interested in measuring.
Construct validity
This research design seeks to provide a cultural portrait of a population.
Ethnography
It is the most important statement of the entire study.
Purpose Statement
This worldview is typically associated with mixed method research approaches.
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.
Exploratory sequential mixed methods
This is the most important form of reliability for multi-item instruments.
Internal consistency
This is written during the research process to reflect on the researcher's reflexivity.
Memos
A form of reasoning that goes from analyzing specific occurrences to creating general theories.
Inductive