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• Research


  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
• Abstract


  A brief overview of a research study
• Conceptual Definition


  A variable, such as anxiety, may be defined as a feeling of uneasiness
• Constitutive Definition


  The basic, dictionary meaning
• Data


  Information used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation
• Delimitations


  It addresses how the study will be narrowed in scope
• Experiment


  A research design used to find "cause-effect" relationships the "effect of...on..."
• Hypothesis


  A statement written by the researcher that states the relationship among or between variables
• Limitations


  Identify potential weaknesses of the study
• Null Hypothesis


  The proposition, to be tested statistically, that the experimental intervention has "no effect," meaning that the treatment and control groups will not differ as a result of the intervention
• Population


  The target group under investigation. The population is the entire set under consideration. Samples are drawn from populations
• Qualitative Research


  Trying to verify or generate descriptive theory that is grounded in the data gleaned from the investigation (naturalistic)
• Quantitative Research


  Answer a specific research question by showing statistical evidence that the data may be addressed in a particular way (experimental)
• Questionnaire


  Structured sets of questions on specified subjects that are used to gather information
• Random sample


  Everybody has the same chance of being assigned to any group
• Research


  A systematic, objective way to generate facts
• Research design


  The method for finding out what the researcher wants to know, experiment, and correlate...
• Research Methodology


  The method of research design (paradigm as well as statistics and analysis) as well as the approximate timeline for completion of the study
• Relationship


  The bond or connection between two variables
• Sample


  A smaller group that represents population of interest
• Statement of the problem


  Part of the introduction which enumerates the research questions which the study sought to answer
• Statistics


  Mathematical tools based on the normal curve used to analyze data; it must match with research designs
• Subject


  The people who are being studied
• Theory


  An generalization that presents a representation about relationships among phenomena
• Validity


  Accuracy, the extent to which a test or study measures what it is supposed to measure
• Variable


  A quality of interest or concepts that can be manipulated, observed or studied
• Accent


  Shows which syllables are said with special force
• Entry


  Listed alphabetically, shows how a word is spelled and how words of more than one syllable is divided
• Etymology


  Word history, tells the origin of a word
• Restrictive labels


  • Tells you that a word has a special meaning (mus. - music, med. - medicine, etc.)
  • Tells you how a word is used (slang, colloq, dial, etc.)
  • Geographic labels tell you in which region of the country
• Guide Words


  • Alphabetical order
  • Usually at the top of each set of facing pages
  • Guide words list the first and last defined word to appear on a page
• Illustrative Sentence


  Shows how a word is used
• Parts of speech


  • n. noun
  • pron. pronoun
  • v.i. intransitive verb
  • v.t. transitive verb
  • interj. interjection
  • conj. conjunction
  • adj. adjective
  • adv. adverb
  • prep. preposition
• Pronunciation


  Has symbols to show how to say the words
• Part of Speech


  Gives the function or functions of a word