English W2 - Research Flashcards
a systematic and scientific process to answer questions about facts
Research
a scientific, systematic, controlled, orderly and objective investigation to develop, refine and expand body of knowledge
Research
Importance of a Research
tool for building knowledge and efficient learning; to understand various issues
new
Exploratory
expanding
Descriptive
impact
Explanatory
open-ended questions; non-numerical
Qualitative
Types of Qualitative Methods
one on one interviews; focus groups; ethnographic studies; text analysis
deals with numbers and measurable forms
Quantitative
Types of Quantitative Methods
survey research; descriptive research; correlational research
Research Data should be:
valid; accurate; reliable; timely; complete
statistics, facts, figures, general material, evidence or knowledge collected
Data
attributes or characteristics that can have more than one value, such as height or weight. Variables are qualities or quantities, properties or characteristics of people, things, or situations that change or vary.
Variables
the way in which the researcher defines the variables under investigation; stated in such way by the investigator specifying how the study variables will be measured in the actual research situation.
Operational Definition
a statement of the predicted relationship between two or more variables in a research study; an educated or calculated guess by the researcher.
Hypothesis
a critical summary or research on a topic of interest, generally prepared to put a research problem in context or to identify gaps and weaknesses in prior studies so as to justify a new investigation.
Literature Review
the degree of consistency or accuracy with which an instrument measures the attributes it is designed to measure.
Reliability
The entire set of individuals or objects having some common characteristics selected for a research study is referred to as population.
Population
a part or subset of population selected to participate in the research study.
Samples
the process of selecting sample from the target population to represent the entire population.
Sampling
the degree to which an instrument what it is intended to measure.
Validity
