Across
- 4. A system of classifying and organizing terms.
- 6. Specific query researchers want to answer in addressing the research problem.
- 10. Relationship or association between two variables.
- 13. The peak is off center and one tail is longer than the other.
- 15. Involves exposing the same people to more than one condition.
- 17. Focuses on the lived experiences of humans and is an approach to learning what the life experiences of people are like and what they mean.
- 19. Reflect the ratio of two probabilities.
- 22. Characteristic or quality that takes on different values.
- 23. Technique of asking participants to take photographs of themselves and then interpret them.
- 25. Participants have adequate information about the research.
- 27. A listing of each variable together with information about placement in the file, codes associated with the values values of the variable, and other basic information.
- 28. ANOVA context, the variance is referred to as...
- 29. Observed result could reflect chance fluctuations.
- 32. Focuses on story in studies in which purpose is to explore how people make sense of events in their lives.
- 35. Refers to the accuracy and consistency of information obtained in a study.
- 37. Seeks solutions to existing problems and tends to be of greater immediate utility of EBP.
- 39. Sampling to the point at which no new information is obtained and redundancy is achieved.
- 40. Paradigm most often associated with Mixed Methods research.
- 42. Evaluations are the cornerstone.
- 44. Confidence in the truth of the data and interpretations of them.
- 45. Risks no greater than those ordinarily encountered in daily life or during routine tests or procedures.
- 46. Distribution with two peaks.
- 47. Enhances the base of knowledge or to formulate or refine a theory.
- 48. Effects of Taking a pretest on people's performance on a posttest.
Down
- 1. Original description of a study prepared by the researcher who conducted it.
- 2. A code that is not possible
- 3. Tendency of observers to be influenced by one characteristic in judging other, unrelated, characteristics.
- 5. Statement of predicted relationships between two or more variables.
- 7. A design that emerges in the field as the study unfolds.
- 8. Rank evidence sources according to the strength of the evidence they provide.
- 9. Used to predict outcomes.
- 11. Documents the extent to which the goals of the program are attained.
- 12. Route respondents through different sets of questions depending on the responses.
- 14. The degree to which an instrument measures what it purports to measure.
- 16. The extent to which the sample is similar to the population and avoids bias.
- 18. Achieved through accurate measuring tools, controls over confounding variables, and powerful statistical methods.
- 20. Stability of data over time and conditions.
- 21. Analysis of the theoretical underpinnings on which the studies are grounded.
- 24. Researchers view the text as a whole and try to capture its meanings.
- 26. Involves judgments about whether findings from an inquiry can be extrapolated to a different setting or group of people.
- 30. The process of selecting a portion of the population for a study.
- 31. Careful appraisal of a study's strengths and weaknesses.
- 33. Method of integrating quantitative findings statistically.
- 34. Relationship where the participants in the qualitative strand are a subset of the participants in the quantitative strand.
- 36. Influence that distorts study results.
- 38. A daily record of events and conversations in the field.
- 41. The ability of a measure to detect change over time in a construct that has changed, commensurate with the amount of change that has occurred.
- 43. Overall conceptual underpinnings of a study.