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Ethics & Qualitative Rsrch
Sampling & Design
Threats to Validity
Measurement
Statistics
100
The Tuskeege Expriment represents the most obvious violations of this
What is informed consent?
100
In this type of sampling, subjects are asked to find other similar subjects
What is snowball sampling?
100
When the subjects for your control and treatment group are too different you may be demonstrating this
What is sampling bias?
100
"yes" and "no" and "before" and "after" are examples of this level
What are nominal dichotomus
100
The "p" statistic in research studies measures this
What is the probability that the changes are caused by chance
200
Two weaknesses of qualitative research
What are "results not generalizable" and time consuming?
200
Sampling that looks for specific characteristics in a desired group
What is purposive (judgemental sampling)?
200
When at first glace your measuring instrument looks like it would be a good measure
What is face validity?
200
When you reject a hypothesis that is correct you are doing this
What is making a type 1 error
200
This statistic gives you a "good fit" of the relationship between your variables
chi square
300
The part of research that culture impacts
What is all of it?
300
University Rosters, phone book, voter registration lists are possible examples of this
What is a sampling frame?
300
Name one usual threat to internal validity that is not controlled by design
What is attrition?
300
Well known scales like the Beck Depression inventory and MMPI are measured at this level
What is interval
300
The statistic that tells you at what probability you should reject the null
What is alpha?
400
Two strengths of qualitative research
What are Depth of understanding and flexibility?
400
This group of designs that has no random assignment
What are pre-experimental designs?
400
The most important factor to determining the External Validity of a study is this
What is representativeness of the sample.
400
This statistical test measures correlation between two similar tests or scales. Used in test-retest reliability
What is Pearson's Correlation Coeficient
400
If your mean is 30 and your SD is 10 then 68% of your distribution lies here
What is between 20 and 40
500
The name of 3 types of qualitative research
What are case studies, life history, focus groups, (feminist methods, participatory action research)
500
The experimental research design that has two or more treatment groups and one control group
What is the alternative treatment design?
500
Name 6 threats to internal validity that can be controled by the design and describe them
What are History, maturation, testing, instrumentation, statistical regression, selection bias
500
Name the four data collection techniques
What are known scales, self-report, direct observation and archival records?
500
2 statistical tests; one compres two groups only and the other compares more than 2 groups
What are T-test and ANOVA