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• abstract: a brief summary of research paper
• applied research: research that tries to provide solutions to particular problems affecting an individual or a society
• basic research: a type of scientific research that test hypothesis and theories to acquire a better understanding of a certain subject
• conceptual framework: definition of what a particular concept means
• concepts: the ideas or phenomena being researched
• constitutive definition: the definitions written in a dictionary
• control group: in experiments, control groups do not receive treatment or are believed to have been given treatment
• correlational study: a type of research wherein the relationships of two variables are studied
• data: information collected from data-gathering techniques like surveys, interviews, etc.
• dependent variable: inconsistent variables due to interjections of independent variables
• descriptive study: a kind of research where the researcher describes the subject being studied
• experiment: a kind of research that is used to investigate a hypothesis and discover something new
• external validity: the extent of a researcher's capability to generalize a result
• extraneous: variables that may affect the study's findings
• heterogenous: populations, data, and findings in a research
• homogeneous: opposite of heterogeneous (populations, data, and findings are similar )
• hypothesis: a proposition based on limited evidence that is before the study starts
• independent variable: variable that is manipulated by the researcher to achieve a change in the dependent variable
• inductive reasoning: inferences that starts with specific details and end with general observations
• deductive reasoning: the opposite of inductive reasoning; the researcher starts with general conclusions and end with specific observations
• internal validity: the accuracy of the results in relation to the reality of the population being studied
• introduction: contains relevant pieces of background information about the research
• limitations: a study's constraints due to various huma factor
• measures of central tendency: the average of a set of data
• mean: the arithmetic average
• median: the middle value in a list of numbers
• methodology: the methods used to gather data for the research
• mode: the value that occurs the most in a set of data
• null hypothesis: a statistic proposition where the dependent variable does not change even with the manipulation of the dependent variables
• operational definition: to define a term so that a concepts is both observable and quantifiable
• participant: the respondents whose characteristics and response will be researched
• principal investigator: the person in charge of a research
• population: the target group under investigation
• purpose of the study: specifies the primary goals of a research project
• qualitative research: trying to verify or generate descriptive theory that is grounded in the data gleaned from the investigation (naturalistic)
• quantitative research: provides answers to research questions by showing quantifiable data like polls, questionnaires, surveys, etc. (experimental)
• questionnaire: sets of questions given to participants to obtain qualitative or quantitative information
• random sample: any individual within the population has an equal likelihood of being chosen
• research: a systemic way of gaining information and reaching a conclusion about a social phenomenon
• research design: the overall strategy of the researcher in executing their research