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Experiments
Surveys
Interviews/
Participant Observation
Unobtrusive methods
Mixed Methods
100
internal validity
What is a major strength of experimental methods?
100
Straightforward and concise
What are questions in a good survey?
100
Engage in active listening.
What is a part of conducting in-depth interviews?
100
Locating the data source.
What is a central task in secondary data analysis?
100
Addressing a research question with multiple methods or measures that do not share the same methodological weakness.
What is triangulation?
200
selection bias, maturation, history
What are threats to internal validity in experimental design?
200
An array of responses that covers the variation present in possible responses.
What are exhaustive response categories?
200
Descriptive information and reflective information
What are the two parts of fieldnotes.
200
Sources of data central to demography.
What is existing statistical data usually from the government or NGOs?
200
Indexes and scales.
What are composite measures?
300
The group of research subjects to whom no experimental stimulus is applied who in every other way looks like the experimental group.
What is the control group?
300
How questions should be grouped.
What is thematically?
300
Do a Homer Simpson: play dumb.
What is a tip for in-depth interviews?
300
The study of social artifacts (e.g. books, logs, art, media) in order to develop theories to explain patterns in the data.
What is content analysis?
300
A way to increase confidence in a particular finding.
What are replications using the same research strategy?
400
A group of subjects to whom the experimental treatment/manipulation is applied.
What is the experimental group?
400
Double negatives, double-barreled questions, loaded language.
What are questions to avoid in survey design?
400
Brief quotes, phrases and key words recorded by the field researcher while in the field.
What are jottings?
400
The systematic comparison of a small set of cases with in-depth historical analysis in order to develop causal explanations of real world social transformation.
What is comparative historical research?
400
Sent matched pairs of confederates to apply for real job openings and then subsequently used a survey addressing similar themes.
Who is Pager?
500
Types of experimental design.
What are posttest only control group, pretest-posttest control group, factorial design, field experiment, or survey-based experiment?
500
0, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6
What are mutually exclusive answer choices?
500
The instrument in qualitative fieldwork.
What is the researcher.
500
A tool for determining if patterns are meaningful or spurious.
What is a regression table?
500
Important for determining which research methods might effectively triangulate measurement.
What is knowing the strengths and weaknesses of each research method?