Terminology 1
a brief summary of a research study and its results
What is an 'abstract'?
How you acknowledge the source of the information you have used in your work.
What is 'referencing'?
Examining and processing research data, in order to answer the questions that the study is trying to address.
What is 'data analysis'?
Someone who takes part in a research study.
What is a 'participant'?
‘Original research’ in which new data are collected
What is 'primary research'?
Specific procedures for collecting and analysing data.
What are 'research methods'?
A set of principles that guide researchers who are carrying out research with people.
What are 'ethics'?
Research which collects data in the form of numbers to measure things or things.
What is 'quantitative research'?
An unproved theory that can be tested through research.
What is a 'hypothesis'?
Research which is used to explore and understand people’s beliefs, experiences, attitudes or behaviours. It asks questions about how and why.
What is 'qualitative research'?
A research method that uses data that was collected by someone else
What is 'secondary research'?
How research is done –how information is collected and analysed, and why a particular method has been chosen.
What is a research 'methodology'?
When the researcher unintentionally or actively affects the results process and its results.
What is 'bias'?
How you select a sample that is representative of a group as a whole.
What is 'sampling'?
The consistency of your results; they can be reproduced under the same conditions.
What is 'reliability'?
The accuracy of your results: they represent what they are supposed to measure.
What is 'validity'?