W3 Flashcards
What are the types of analytical research?
Reviews
Historical research
Philosophical research
What is a review?
Critical account of present understanding
What is a meta-analysis
Quantitative methods of a review
What does historical research include
Accessing primary (i.e witnesses) or secondary (i.e literature) sources to document past events
What comes under philosophical research
Organising existing evidence into a comprehensive theoretical model
What are the types of observational research
Case study
Survey
What is a longitudinal design
Involves examining the same groups’ perf at different time points.
Participant drop-out rate is often a problem.
How is observational research analysed?
Using either:
Correlation
Linear regression
Multiple regression
What is observational research useful for?
Establishing relationships between variables
Negative to observational research
Difficult to infer causality
- You know there’s a relationship between the 2 but you don’t know which causes which
On what scale is data measured?
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
Pre-experimental design
1 group - no control group
No random assignment to groups
Process of pre-experimental design
Pre-test measurement
Treatment
Post-test measurement
Quasi-experimental design
What are the types
Static group comparison
Causal comparison
Is there random assignment in the quasi-experimental design static group comparison
NO
