A process of steps used to collect and analyze information to increase our understanding of a topic or issue.
What is research?
100
What should be a primary consideration and at the forefront of the researcher's agenda.
What is ethics?
100
An inquiry approach useful for exploring and understanding a central phenomenon.
What is qualitative research?
100
An inquiry approach useful for describing trends and explaining the relationship among variables.
What is quantitative research?
100
Used by researchers to test activities, practices or procedures to determine whether they influence an outcome or dependent variable
What is an experiment?
200
1. research adds to our knowledge
2. research improves practice
3. research informs policy debates
What are three reasons why research is important?
200
Ethical issues in this research design usually arise during fieldwork.
What is ethnographic research design?
200
Open-ended, general questions that a researcher would like answered during the study.
What are qualitative research questions?
200
A declarative statement in quantitative research in which the researcher makes a prediction or conjecture about the outcome of a relationship.
What is a hypothesis?
200
The use of both quantitative and qualitative methods in a single study.
What is mixed-methods design?
300
1. identify a research problem
2. review the literature
3. specify a purpose for research
4. collect data
5. analyze and interpret the data
6. report and evaluate data
What are the six steps in the process of research?
300
1. advancing purpose of study
2. the power and authority issues of interviewing
3. building a useful chain of evidence from data
What are potential ethical issues in ground theory research?
300
The intentional selection of individuals and sites to learn or understand a central phenomenon.
What is purposeful sampling?
300
Summary numbers that represent a single value in a distribution of scores.
What are measures of central tendency?
300
A systematic, qualitative procedure used to generate a theory that explains, at a broad conceptual level,a process, an action or an interaction about a substantive topic.
What is grounded theory design?
400
Based on the nature of the research problem and the questions that will be asked to address the problem, the researcher will choose one of these two research tracks.
What are quantitative and qualitative research?
400
Data collection and data reporting
What are the two areas ethical issues are most closely related to?
400
observations, interviews and questionnaires, documents, and audiovisual materials
1. match your approach to your research problem
2. ensure that your approach fits your audience
3. relate your approach to your personal experience and training
What are three important factors in whether to use a quantitative or qualitative approach?
500
1. collect data
2. prepare data for analysis
3. read through data
4. code data
5. code text for description
6. code text for themes
What are the six steps commonly used in analyzing qualitative data?
500
1. identify a null and alternative hypothesis
2. set the alpha level
3. collect data
4. compute sample statistic
5. decide to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis
What are the five steps in hypothesis testing?
500
In November 1895, this individual presented the correlation formula known today before the Royal Society in England.