An attribute or characteristic that influences or affects an outcome or dependent variable.
What is an independent variable?
100
A statement that participants sign before they participate in research that guarantees them certain rights and shows that they agree to be involved in the study.
What is an informed consent form?
100
The subgroup of the target population that the researcher plans to study for the purpose of making generalizations about the target population.
What is a sample?
100
The square root of the variance.
What is standard deviation?
100
Qualitative procedure for describing, analyzing, and interpreting a cultural group's shared patterns of behavior, beliefs, and language that develop over time.
What is ethnographic design?
200
An attribute or characteristic that that is dependent on or influenced by the independent variable.
What is a dependent variable?
200
Protecting the anonymity of participants by assigning numbers or aliases to them to use in the process of analyzing and reporting data.
What is confidentiality/privacy?
200
A group of individuals who compromise the same characteristics.
What is a population?
200
Typical or most representative value of a group of scores, such as the mean, median, and mode.
What is central tendency?
200
A quantitative design in which investigators use a correlation statistical technique to describe and measure the degree of association (or relationship) between two or more variables or sets of scores.
What is correlational design?
300
This type of research is specific, narrow, measurable, and observable.
What is quantitative research?
300
Collecting data in a way that respects the indigenous culture of groups.
What is multicultural considerations?
300
An attribute or characteristic expressed in an abstract, general way.
What is a construct?
300
Rejecting the null hypothesis when in fact it is true; getting a statistically significant result when in fact the research hypothesis is not true.
What is a Type I error?
300
A procedure in quantitative research in which investigators administer a survey or a questionnaire to a sample or to the entire population of people to describe the attitudes, opinions, behaviors, or characteristics of the population.
What is survey design?
400
This type of research states the purpose and research questions in a broad way so as to the participants' experiences.
What is qualitative research?
400
The action of falsifying information or a theory.
What is falsification?
400
A procedure for making decisions about results by comparing an observed value with a population value to determine if no difference or relationship exists between the values.
What is hypothesis testing?
400
Failing to reject the null hypothesis when in fact it is false; failing to get a statistically significant result when in fact the research hypothesis is true.
What is a Type II error?
400
A systematic, qualitative procedure that researchers use to generate a theory that explains, at a broad conceptual level, a process, action, or interaction about a substantive topic.
What is grounded theory design?
500
The educational issues, controversies, or concerns studied by researchers.
What are research problems?
500
The intentional misrepresentation of research results.
What is fabrication?
500
1. Identifying a research problem. 2. Reviewing the literature. 3. Specifying a purpose for research. 4. Collecting data. 5. Analyzing and interpreting the data. 6. Reporting and evaluating research.
What are the steps in the process of research?
500
A distribution of scores that pile up at the middle or spread out to the sides.
What is kurtosis distribution?
500
A qualitative procedure in which researchers describe the lives of individuals, collect and tell stories about these individuals' lives, and write narratives about their experiences.