Across
- 7. when researchers ask and record answers to open-ended questions
- 8. the place where a story physically occurs
- 9. identifying the major intent or objective for a study
- 12. research approach for describing trends and explaining the relationship among variables
- 14. experiments situations where the researcher assigns participants to groups because random selection cannot be done
- 17. suggestions for the importance of the study for different audiences
- 18. process of gathering firsthand information by observing people and places at a research site
- 19. phenomenon issue or process explored in research
Down
- 1. declarative statements which make a prediction
- 2. development of sound evidence to show that the intended test interpretation matches the proposed purpose of the test
- 3. tools for measuring, observing, or documenting
- 4. summaries of information that show relations among scores or variables
- 5. a statistical test to determine patterns
- 6. reflection on personal beliefs which are written into research
- 10. research approach useful for exploring a central phenomenon
- 11. the process of corroborating evidence
- 13. intentional use of specific terms to convey ideas
- 15. characteristic of an individual or an organization which is measurable, observable, and varies among research participants
- 16. the researcher gathers data in the setting where the participants are located
- 20. similar codes aggregated together to form a major idea