MODULE 1 Flashcards
What are the common characteristics of research?
Systematic, empirical, replicable, reductive, logical
What are the five philosophical worldviews?
Post-positivism, constructivism, transformative, pragmatism, two-eyed
Post-positivism is based on the ____, and is ____ research.
Scientific method, quantitative
Constructivism focuses on ____, instead of narrowing to a few ____.
complexity of views, categories
Transformative focuses on changing the lives of who?
The participants
What method do researchers use in the pragmatic view?
Whatever method works best (mixed methods dominant)
The two-eyed view takes into account ___ and ___ ways of knowing.
Indigenous, Western
What is quantitative research?
Looking at relationships among variables
What are the four steps in the scientific method?
Develop the problem (identify ind. and dep. variables), developing the hypothesis, gathering the data (internal and external validity), analyze the results
What are the three forms of research questions?
Comparing groups, relating independent and dependent variables, describe responses/status on a variable
What is the most common measure of central tendency?
The mean (arithmetic average)
What is the best estimate of the spread of scores?
Variance
What does the correlation coefficient “r” measure?
Describes the linear relationship between variables
What would be considered a strong linear relationship?
A r value close to 1 or -1
If r is positive, what does this mean?
Both variables are trending in the same direction
