Quantitative Methods
A type of study in which a researcher observes participants in real time, tracks data, and tries to be as objective as possible.
What is an observational study?
A type of qualitative inquiry that involves an in-depth study of an intact cultural group in a natural setting.
What is an ethnography?
It is important to ensure this type of validity in your research project so that your findings are generalizable to the broader population.
What is external validity?
This term encompasses the process of notifying participants ahead of time about any physical or psychological risks involved in your study.
What is informed consent?
This is the year Valor officially opened as a school.
When is 2014?
A study designed by asking questions to determine the frequency, and distribution of certain characteristics in a population.
A type of qualitative research in which in-depth data are gathered relative to a single individual, program, or event.
What is a Case Study?
It's vital to ensure that you get accurate data in your research project. Taking steps to bolster _________ can help with that.
What is internal validity?
Key Ethics term that means "Acting for the benefit of others"
What is Benefice?
These variables are the ones we want to exclude from an experimental study.
What are confounding variables?
A study in which participants are randomly assigned to groups that undergo various researcher-imposed treatments or interventions, followed by observations or measurements to assess the effects of the treatments
What is Experimental Research?
For a researcher who wants to understand the extent to which masculinity is portrayed in American romantic comedy films in the 21st century, they would like use this method.
What is a content analysis?
Common in experimental designs, a researcher might give a participant group this:
A riddle: On the surface it appears to be influential, but it really shouldn't be.
What is a placebo?
Researchers must weigh this term meaning "worth" against possible risk in a study.
What is value?
The section of an academic paper that states what researchers might study next in a particular academic discipline.
What are future directions?
A statistical investigation of the relationship between two or more variables.
What is a correlational study?
A qualitative method that attempts to understand participants’ perspectives and views of physical or social realities, typically about a specific event or experience.
What is a Phenomenological Study?
Can you see it or can you not? - this type of strategy to ensure internal validity is when neither the researcher nor the participant know who is in the experimental and control groups.
Double-Blind Experiment
The IRB was developed in this calendar year.
What is 1974?
The name of the "board" that approves or denies your research proposal.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
An observational-descriptive type of research that compares people in different age groups
What is a Cross-Sectional Study?
records the experiences of an individual or small group, revealing the lived experience or particular perspective of that individual, usually primarily through interview which is then recorded and ordered into a chronological narrative
What is Narrative Inquiry?
Without taking steps to ensure internal validity, you might risk this type of effect occurring in your study — a more general phenomenon in which people change their behavior when they’re aware that they are being observed.
What is the Hawthorne Effect or Participant Bias?
These two types of harm are what we would not want to expose our participants to in a research study.
What are physical and psychological harm?
It's come and gone by now; the month your favorite AP Research teacher was born.
What is August?