ENGLISH TERMINOLOGIES

• Principle investigator - the persom who orseas a research
• population - the target group under investigation
• Purpose of the study - specific research aims and objectives for the research
• random - by chance
• qualitative research - trying to verify or generate descriptive theory
• Quantitative research - answer a specific researchquestion
• Questionnaire - structure sets of questions
• Random sample - everybody has the same chance of being assigned by the group
• Research - a systematic, objective way to generate facts
• Research Design - the method for finding out what the researcher wants to know
• Research Methodology - the method of research design
• Relationship - the bond or conmection between two variables
• Sample - a smaller group that represents population of interest
• Significance of the study - it is written as part of the introduction section of a thesis
• Standard Deviation - a measure of spread
• Statement of the problem - part of the introduction which enumerates the research question
• Statistical Analysis - Application of statistical processes and theory to the compilation
• Statistical Significance - an important finding that did not likely to happen
• Statistics - mathematical tools based on the normal curve use to analyze data
• T-score - A standard scoreon the normal curvewhere the mean is assigned “50” Deviation s of “10”
• Subject - the people who are being studied
• T-test - a parametric statistical tool that compares differences between the means of two groups
• Theory - a generalization that presents a representation about relationship among phenomena
• Validity - accuracy, the extent to which a test or study measures what is supposed to measure
• Variable - a quality of interest or concepts that can be manipulated, observed or studied
• Abstract - a brief overview of a research study
• Applied Research - conducted to generate knowledge that inluences or improves practice
• Basic Research - research that test theories
• Concepts - the building blocks of theories
• Constitutive definition - the basic, dictionary meaning
• Control group - in experiment, the one does not get the treatment
• Correlational study - a type of research design that depicts a relationship between variables
• Data - information used as basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation
• Delimitation - it adresses, how the study will be narrowed in scopr
• Dependent Variable - the concept that the researcher is most interested in understanding
• Descriptive Study - research design that describes “what is” e.g. a survey
• External validity - how generalizable the results are as it comcerns other population s and concerns
• Extraneous - variables that may influence or contaminate the data
• Heterogeneous - groups under study are very different or similar
• homogenous - groups that are very similar