Applied Social Behavior Research

Question 1

Action Research Designs

Answer 1

Systematic procedures used by teachers (or other individuals in an educational setting) to gather quantitative or qualitative data (or both) about and subsequently improve the ways in which their particular setting operates, how they teach, and how well their students learn.

Question 2

A-B designs

Answer 2

Are single-subject studies in experimental research that consist of observing and measuring behavior during a trial period (A), administering an intervention, and observing and measuring the behavior after the intervention (B).

Question 3

alternate forms and test-retest reliability

Answer 3

It is an approach to reliability in which the researcher administers the test twice and also uses an alternate form of the test from the first administration to the second.

Question 4

alternating treatment designs

Answer 4

A type of single-subject design in which the researcher examines the relative effects of two or more interventions and determines which intervention is the more effective treatment on the outcome.

Question 5

alternative forms reliability

Answer 5

Reliability involves using two instruments, both measuring the same variables and relating (or correlating) the scores for the same group of individuals to the two instruments.

Question 6

Attitudinal measures

Answer 6

Seek to assess affect or feelings toward educational topics (e.g., assessing positive or negative attitudes toward giving students a choice of school to attend).

Question 7

axial coding

Answer 7

It is when the grounded theorist selects one open coding category, positions it at the center of the process being explored (as the core phenomenon), and then relates other categories to it.

Question 8

beta weights

Answer 8

Coefficients that indicate the magnitude of prediction for a variable after removing the effects of all other predictors.

Question 9

Between-group designs

Answer 9

Designs in which the researcher compares results between different groups in terms of outcome scores.

Question 10

Blocking variable

Answer 10

Is a variable in an experiment that the researcher controls before the experiment starts by dividing (or “blocking”) the participants into subgroups (or categories) and analyzing the impact of each subgroup on the outcome.