Intro to Design Frame
The type of research question that asks: "What is related to what?"
What is Explain?
The variable you change/manipulate in an experiment.
What is an Independent Variable?
Studying past phenomenon in a case study.
What is Retrospective?
The ability for others to have the same results after repeating your experiment. This makes the findings more secure or consistent.
What is Replicability?
The loss of members from the group being studied over a period of time in a Longitudinal Study.
What is Attrition?
A distortion of the evidence arising from the way that the data are collected.
What is Selection Bias?
Letting the design ‘happen’ as you find out more about the situation in which you are interested.
What is an Emergent Design?
The comparison of a social situation in one country with that in another.
What is a Comparative Study?
The plan for research that you adopt from the beginning of your project.
What is a Fixed Design?
Research that is undertaken by practitioners for the purpose of helping develop their practice.
What is Action Research?
The alternate name for "Design Frame" in the book relating to its metaphor for building.
What is Scaffold?
The book has an alternate name, which is confusingly: The 'Case Study Method.'
What is Ethnography