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