Across
- 4. refers to how accurately a method measures what it is intended to measure
- 6. is a group of people, objects, or items that are taken from a larger population for measurement. The sample should be representative of the population to ensure that we can generalise the findings from the research sample to the population as a whole.
- 7. is a short statement about your paper designed to give the reader a complete, yet concise, understanding of your paper's research and findings. It is a mini-version of your paper.
- 10. are simply a tool to help them study the phenomena they are interested in.
- 12. such as interactionism, phenomenology, and critical theory can be used to help design a research question, guide the selection of relevant data, interpret the data, and propose explanations of causes or influences Previous articles in this series have addressed several methodologies used in qualitative.
- 13. is a process of systematic inquiry that entails collection of data; documentation of critical information; and analysis and interpretation of that data/information, in accordance with suitable methodologies set by specific professional fields and academic disciplines.
- 14. is a descriptive statistic that researchers commonly use to characterize the data from their studies.
- 15. refer to the boundaries of the research study, based on the researcher's decision of what to include and what to exclude.
- 16. is an assumption, an idea that is proposed for the sake of argument so that it can be tested to see if it might be true.
Down
- 1. in research simply refers to a person, place, thing, or phenomenon that you are trying to measure in some way. The best way to understand the difference between a dependent and independent variable is that the meaning of each is implied by what the words tell us about the variable you are using.
- 2. is a research tool featuring a series of questions used to collect useful information from respondents.
- 3. of the study are those characteristics of design or methodology that impacted or influenced the interpretation of the findings from your research.
- 5. is your opportunity to show readers and reviewers why your research topic is worth reading about and why your paper warrants their attention.
- 8. is a type of descriptive statistic that researchers commonly use to characterize the data from their studies.
- 9. -- a theory or analysis of how research does and should proceed.
- 11. is a parameter that measures the central location of the distribution of a random variable and is an important statistic that is widely reported in scientific literature.