Chapters 1-5 & 7-14 & 16-19 & 21-26 & 29 & 6 & 30
Across
- 3. level of measurement that involves sorting people based on their relative ranking on an attribute
- 4. describes or explains large segments of the human experience
- 6. type of variable that influences the strength or direction of a relationship between two variables
- 8. the total collection of data for all sample members
- 10. integration of qualitative research findings on a topic
- 12. an interview stimulated and guided by photographic images
- 13. the entire aggregation of cases in which a researcher is interested
- 15. type of research design that involves exposing the same people to more than one condition
- 17. done to determine whether the benefits of a program outweigh the monetary costs
- 18. a symbol that expands a search term to include all forms of a root word
- 19. minimize harm and maximize benefits
- 20. the tendency for published studies to overrepresent statistically significant findings
- 22. a two-dimensional matrix in which a series of questions is listed on one dimension and response options are listed on the other
- 23. type of design used in qualitative research that takes shape as researchers make ongoing decisions reflecting what they have already learned
- 24. an abstraction inferred from situations or behaviors
- 26. type of reasoning that involves developing specific predictions from general principles
Down
- 1. assigning numbers to represent the amount of an attribute present in a person or object
- 2. used to determine a straight-line fit to the data that minimizes deviations from the line
- 5. the preliminary pages of dissertations
- 7. using information about people's characteristics to create comparable groups
- 9. type of research design that involves the collection of data once the phenomena under study are captured at a single time point
- 11. the tendency for statistics to fluctuate from one sample to another
- 14. type of sampling relationship in mixed methods research in which the samples in the two strands are completely different, although they are usually drawn from the same or a similar population
- 16. sampling technique in which participants come forward and identify themselves
- 21. the extent to which researchers fairly and faithfully show a range of realities
- 25. an abstract entity that brings meaning and identity to a current experience and its variant manifestations