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When you are collecting survey data, what are the two things youll land on?

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Categorical and Numerical

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Descriptive. It includes things like color, texture, and taste

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Qualitative data

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Numerical. Includes things like height, rate and speed

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Quantitative data

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The extent or degree to which the values of variable can be compared and mathematically manipulated

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Level of measurement

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Depends on the type of information the measurement contains

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Level of measurement

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The relationship between the variables and the number is the key

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Level of measurement

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What are the two scales of categorical data

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Nominal, ordinal

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Two scales of numerical data

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Interval, ratio

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Qualitative characteristics or groups with no rank order

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Nominal

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Why is level of measurement important to researchers?

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It impacts which statistical test you can use

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Inherent order, equal spaces between points, no inherent zero starting point

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Interval

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We use _____ data for mostly demographic information

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Nominal

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Nominal level data are useful for assessing ____________

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Differences between groups

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Categorical in nature, inherent order or rank, option has a different value

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Ordinal

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The order and difference can be described, has true zero and the ratio between two points has a meaning

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Ratio Level

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A creative process

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Creation of knowledge

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Works with a system or method

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Systematic

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A systematic process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting information in order to increase our understanding of a phenomenon about which we are interested or concerned

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Research

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Unbiased; all angles presented

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Objective

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What is the 3 things u need to do base on the definition of research?

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Present the answer, collect data to answer to the question, pose a question

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Why DO research?

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Add to existing knowledge, improve practice, inform policies, solve problems not emergencies

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Who said that research is a systematic process?

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Leedy and Ormrod, 2013

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An organized investigation and study of materials and sources to create facts and reach new inferences (walker, 2010)

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Research

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Quantitative research in comparison to qualitative research

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Single reality, establishing relationships and explaining cause of correlation, pre-established design, detached researcher, to generalize

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Significance of research

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Gather necessary information, improve standard of living, have a safer life, know the truth, explore our history

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Who said that research is an organized investigation?

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Walker, 2010

17
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Research can be categorized into two, what are they?

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Basic and applied research

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Direct experience or observation by the researcher

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Emperical

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Valid procedures and principles

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Logical

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Proven analytical procedures in gathering data, whether historical, descriptive, experimental, and case study

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Analytical

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Exhibits careful and precise judgment

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Critical

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Starts with a problem and ends with a problem

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Cyclical

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Research design and procedures are repeated to enable the researcher to arrive at valid and conclusive results

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Replicability

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Conducted in a methodical manner without bias using systematic method and procedures

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Methodical

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Collects information from a sample coming from various groups that has been drawn from a predetermined population

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Cross-sectional survey

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Sometimes called survey research, it aims to describe systematically the facts and characteristics of a given population or area of interest, factually and accurately

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Descriptive research

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Determines the extent to which two variables (or more) co-vary

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Explanatory research design

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Descriptive research is sometimes called a…?

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Survey research

25
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Attempts to influence a particular variable

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Experimental research

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Aims to describe and measure the degree of association between two or more variables or sets of scores

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Correlational research

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Test hypotheses about cause-and-effect relationships

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Experimental research

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Intentionally manipulated, controlled, vary at known rate, cause

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Independent

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Something that varies, it represent persons or objects that can be manipulated, controlled or merely measured for the sake of research

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Variables

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What are the two variables

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Independent and dependent variables

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Inentionally left alone, measured, effect

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Dependent

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Characterized by data that consists of names, labels, or categories only

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Nominal Scale

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Involved data that may be arranged in some order but differences between data values either cannot be determined or meaningless

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Ordinal Scale

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Data for which we can determine meaningful amounts of differences between data however, there is no inherent zero starting point

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Interval Scale

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The interval scale to include the inherent starting point. For these values, differences and ratios are both meaningful

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Ratio scale

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