Across
- 5. process occurring within participants during the course of the study as a result of the passage of time rather than as a result of the independent variable
- 6. most basic unit of population for sampling purposes
- 7. deliberate withholding of information, or the provision of false information, to study participants, usually to minimize potential biases
- 9. journal that allows free online access to articles, without any user subscriptions costs
- 10. study design in which data are collected at one point in time; sometimes used to infer change over time when data are collected from different age or developmental groups
- 11. distribution of values with two halves that are mirror images of each other
- 12. entire set of individuals or objects having some common characteristics
- 13. technique for obtaining judgments from an expert panel about an issue of concern; experts are questioned in several rounds, with a summary of the panel's view circulated between rounds, to achieve some consesus
- 14. performance standards based on test or scale score information from a large, representative sample
Down
- 1. statement of the specific query the researcher want to answer to address a research problem
- 2. brief description of an event, person, or situation to which respondents are asked to express their reactions
- 3. degree to which the subparts of a composite scale are interrelated and are all measuring the same attribute or dimension
- 4. way of looking at natural phenomena; a worldview
- 8. grand narratives or interpretive translations produced from the integration or comparison of findings from multiple qualitative studies