RESARCH

• 2 TYPES OF RESEARCH METHOD

  quantitative and qualitative methods
• How you, the researcher, view the worldand the assumptions that you make about the natureof the world and of reality.

  Ontology
• The assumptions that you makeabout the best way of investigating the world andabout reality.

  Epistemology
• The way that you group together your research techniques to make a coherent picture.

  Methodology
• What you actually do inorder to collect your data and carry out yourinvestigations.

  Methods and techniques
• believe that the best way to investigate the world is through objective methods, such as observations.

  Positivists
• believe that reality does not exist by itself. Instead, it is constructed and given meaning by people. Their focus is therefore on feelings, beliefs and thoughts, and how people communicate these.

  Social constructionists
• is about quantities, and therefore numbers.

  Quantitative data
• is about the nature of the thing investigated, and tends to be words rather than numbers.

  Qualitative data
• the inherent possibility that itcan be proven false.

  Falsifiability
• deductive ,inductive reasoning.

  Karl Popper and the black swan
• a fixed probability ofwrongly rejecting the null hypothesis. Usually set to 0.05 (5%).

  Significance level
• probability of getting a value of the test statistic as extreme as or more extreme than that observed by chance alone, if the null hypothesis H0, is true.

  p value
• ability to detect a difference if there is one

  Power
• numerical way of expressing thestrength or magnitude of a reported relationship, be it causal or not

  Effect size
• were those who learning styles were matched with the lesson plan

  Matched users
• used a lesson plan thatwas not matched to their learning style

  Mismatched participants
• there will be no statistically significant difference in knowledge gained between users from different experimental groups.

  H0
• students who learn in a matched environment will learn significantly better than those who are in mismatched environment.

  H1
• students who learn in a mismatchedenvironment will learn significantly worsethan those who learn in a matchedenvironment.

  H2
• Statistical testing was carried out using a univariate ------, to determine if there was any significant difference in knowledge gained.

  ANOVA in SPSS
• showing that the findings are consistent and could be repeated.

  Dependability
• Other aspects of research design

  Validity, Reliability, Trustworthiness
• a degree of neutrality or the extent to which the findings of a study are shaped by the respondents and not researcher bias, motivation,or interest.

  Confirmability
• confidence in the 'truth' of the findings.

  Credibility
• showing that the findings have applicability in other contexts

  Transferability
• It represents real numbers or values that are measured or counted.

  Quantitative Variable