Research Methods pt.4

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