Quantitative Methods
Qualitative Methods
Mixed Methods
World Views
Research Cycle
100
The kind of data quantitative researchers collect.
What is numeric data.
100
The kind of data used by qualitative researchers.
What are text and images.
100
The world view most closely associated with MM research.
What is Pragmatic.
100
The world view most closely aligned with quantitative methods.
What is postpositive?
100
In this kind of research the literature review plays a minor role.
What is qualitative?
200
The kind of research questions asked by quantitative researchers.
What is specific and narrow.
200
The kinds of questions asked by qualitative researchers.
What are general and broad questions.
200
A design in which one data set provides a supportive, secondary role.
What is an embedded design.
200
Researchers with this world view focus on marginalized individuals.
What is advocacy and participatory.
200
In this type of research data analysis is relatively quick.
What is quantitative?
300
Researchers like big samples for these reasons.
What is the ability to generalize findings, and reducing sampling error.
300
This form is designed to help gather observational or interview data.
What is a protocol?
300
Two of the four types of MM designs.
What are Triangulation, Embedded, Explanatory and Exploratory.
300
Meanings are constructed by human beings as they engage with the world.
What is a Social Constructivist world view?
300
When the probability of getting the results is unlikely.
What is a significant result?
400
What you reject in a quantitative study if there IS something going on.
What is the null hypothesis.
400
In this form of purposeful sampling you ask participants to recommend others.
What is snowball sampling
400
Turning one kind of data into another.
What is transformation.
400
Theoretical perspectives of this world view include disability theory, and critical theory.
What is Advocacy and Participatory.
400
The kind of format quantitative reports have.
What is structured?
500
These are the three main types of quantitative research designs.
What are experimental, correlational, and survey.
500
These are four main ways of collecting data in a qualitative study.
What are observations, interviews, documents and audio-visual.
500
One of two MM designs that always has two distinct phases.
What is explanatory or exploratory?
500
Researchers who hold this world view focus on the problem, not the methods.
What is pragmatic?
500
This is the final phase in a research cycle.
What is there is no final phase, it's a cycle!