Module 1: Intro to Research Crossword

5. Statistical term for describing two or more events that cannot occur simultaneously.
7. A factor, trait, or condition that can exist in differing amounts or types. Could be considered independent, dependent, or controlled.
8. Research design that uses many waves of measurement (more than 20).
10. A specific statement that predicts there will be no effect of a program or treatment you are studying.
12. A system for ensuring the accuracy and methodological integrity of published research articles.
15. A hypothesis that specifies a direction.
16. Systematic effort to move research from initial discovery to practice and ultimately to impacts on our lives.
19. The variable that you manipulate. Also considered the cause.
20. A specific statement of prediction.
21. The variable that is affected by the independent variable.
23. Pattern of relationship in which as one variable increases, the other also increases and as one variable decreases, the other also decreases.
27. A specific statement of prediction stating what you expect will happen in your study.
28. The entity being analyzed in the study.
29. Based on the direct observations and measurements of reality.
30. The statistical procedure for combining data from multiple studies.

1. Research design that uses two or a few waves of measurement.
2. A hypothesis that does not specify a direction.
3. A cause-effect relationship.
4. A systematic compilation and written summary of all of the literature published in scientific journals that is related to a research topic of interest.
6. Method of reasoning that works from the more specific to the more general. Also called the bottom-up approach.
9. Empirical systematic investigation. It is a public effort.
11. Pattern of relationship in which as one variable increases, the other decreases. The relationship may also be called inverse.
13. When two things are synchronized.
14. Method of reasoning that works from the more general to the more specific. Also called the top-down approach.
17. A specific value of a variable.
18. Pertaining to a cause-effect relationship.
22. Studies that take place at several points in time.
24. The numerical representation of some object.
25. Term used to discuss the quality of various conclusions one might reach based on a research project.
26. Tests a discovery under increasingly controlled conditions in real-world contexts.