The process of choosing the people, place and time to collect primary data.
What is sampling?
100
Data that have been gathered and recorded by someone else.
What is secondary data?
100
Where the researcher watches and records the behaviour of their subjects.
What is an observation?
100
A system of moral principles or standards governing appropriate conduct for an individual or group with respect to a specific situation; that is, the principles used to judge right or wrong, good or bad.
What is ethics?
100
Included at the end of a report and contains material that is relevant to research project.
What is an appendices?
200
Selecting people so that everyone has an equal chance of being selected.
What is random sampling?
200
Books, journal, magazines, newspapers and pamphlets.
What are print sources?
200
A written summary of a real-life case, based on data collected over a period of time.
What is a case study?
200
Refers to measurement that accurately reflects what is intended to measure.
What is validity?
200
A list that includes all the sources you have looked at and used in carrying out your project.
What is a bibliography?
300
Occurs when a researcher selects people because they are easily located.
What is convenience sampling?
300
Data that area collected first hand by the researcher.
What is primary data?
300
An examination of existing research that has been conducted on a particular topic or issue.
What is a literature review?
300
Unfair preference or distortion.
What is bias?
300
The test run to check the suitability of questions types, wording and layout of research questions.
What is a pilot?
400
Involves a process in which the population is divided into strata groups and then random selection occurs within each strata.
What is stratified random sampling?
400
The internet, computer programs, television and radio, statistics, podcasts, webcasts and other multimedia resources.
What are digital sources?
400
A conversation or discussion between two or more people to collect information or opinions.
What is an interview?
400
Refers to being free from identification.
What is anonymity?
400
A problem, question or statement that one proposes to test throughout research.
What is a hypothesis?
500
Is obtained by choosing one number at random and then every nth unit after this random start.
What is systematic sampling?
500
Research that involves collecting facts in the form of numerical data that can be analysed through counting, measuring and graphing.
What is quantitative data?
500
A set of formally prepared questions that seek information on a person's knowledge, beliefs, feelings and opinions.
What is a Questionnaire?
500
Refers to the consistency of measurement.
What is reliability?
500
The number of participants included in the research study.