Research Methods pt.4
Across
- 3. full details of all references used. Format: Name. Initial (Date published) 'Title@ : 'the journal it came from.'
- 6. PHASE predications made from theories, in the form of testable hypotheses, are tested and yield data that is analysed, leading to theory adjustment.
- 7. combining or analysing collective data from many studies to make into one large study.
- 8. CONSTRUCTION logically organised theory that defines events and describes relationships among events.
- 10. type of numeric data that is objective.
- 11. indicates what the study is about.
- 12. refers to data being collected through direct observation or experiment.
- 14. details of why the study was conducted.
- 17. summary of report.
- 18. numbers
- 19. part of the varication process where research is deemed scientifically acceptable or not, and therefore helps determine if findings can be published in scientific journals or not.
- 20. TESTING uses data from a sample to form a conclusion about a group or population.
- 22. the belief for any hypothesis to have credibility, it must be inherently disprovable before it can become accepted as a scientific hypothesis or theory.
- 23. assesses validity by predicting how well on a test predict future behaviour.
- 26. data collected specifically for the purpose answering your research question.
- 27. results/statistics of method.
- 28. assesses to what degree research findings remain true over time.
Down
- 1. is a simple way of assessing validity and involves the extent to which items look like that a test claims to measure.
- 2. a type of non-numerical data that can be subjective.
- 4. conclusion and evaluation.
- 5. where reviewers may have had an unconscious bias to want to or not want to publish reports sue to personal aims.
- 7. an outline of what was conducted in the study.
- 9. refers to whether a particular method and finding can be repeated with different/same people and/or different occasion to see f the results were similar.
- 13. PHASE observations yield information that is used to formulate theories as explanations.
- 15. assesses validity by correlating score sone a test with another test known to be valid.
- 16. means that all sources of bias are minimized and that personal or subjective ideas are eliminated.
- 21. existing data collected for another purpose that you employ to answer your research question.
- 24. a shared set of assumptions about the subject matter of a discipline and the methods appropriate to its study.
- 25. a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline.