Research methods
What are the three types of research methods?
Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed
What is research that helps to shape social life?
Applied research
What is a quantitative design that researchers use to test cause-and-effect relationships and randomly assign participants to groups?
True experimental design
What is a qualitative research design that involves an in-depth analytical descriptions of current systems, processes, and phenomena and/or understandings of the shared beliefs and practices of a particular group or culture?
Ethnographic research design
Ethnographic research design
What is a mixed method design where collection and analysis of quantitative data is followed by a collection and analysis of qualitative data?
Explanatory sequential mixed method design
Which research method has both qualitative and quantitative components?
Mixed method
What is a statement describing a researcher's expectation regarding what results he or she anticipates finding?
Hypotheses
What is a quantitative design that researchers use to test cause-and-effect relationships without randomly assigning participants to groups?
Quasi-experimental design
What is a qualitative research design that involves studying a single person and gathering data through the collection of stories that are used to construct a narrative about the individual’s experience and the meanings he/she attributes to them?
Narrative research design
What is a mixed method design where collection and analysis of qualitative data is followed by a collection and analysis of quantitative data?
Exploratory sequential mixed method design
What are two popular social science paradigms?
Positivism and post-positivism
What is the entity, or unit of observation, a researcher hopes to be able to same something about at the end of his/her study?
Unit of Analysis
What is a quantitative research design that seeks to describe the current status of a variable?
Descriptive research design
What is a qualitative research design that involves a detailed examination of a single group, individual, situation, or site?
Case study design
What is a mixed method design where collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data occurs simultaneously?
Convergent parallel mixed methods
What is a type of research where we test hypotheses?
Deductive
what are the basic types of variables?
Dependent and Independent Variables
What is a quantitative research design that attempts to determine cause-and-effect relationships, without random assignment, and with more than one pre-existing group?
Causal-comparative research design
What is a qualitative research design that involves exploring the essence of human experiences?Phenomenology
Phenomenology
What is the core assumption of mixed method research?
By combining both statistical trends and stories, a researcher can have a better understanding of the problem he/she is studying
What is our assumptions about how we see the world?
Ontology
Ontology
What are claims a researcher makes about a lower-level unit of analysis based on data collected from a higher-level unit of analysis?
Ecological fallacy
What is a quantitative research design that attempts to determine the extent of a non-causal relationship between two or more variables?
Correlational research design
A flexible and perhaps most widely used research design
Case study
What mixed method research is?
Having quantitative and qualitative data available from a study.