TECHNICAL TERMS

• Validity

  • Accuracy, the extent to which a test or study measures what it's supposed to measure.
• Population

  • All of a group of interest
• Extraneous

  • Variables that may influence or contaminates the data.
• Independent

  • A variable or concept being studied that usually indicates the influence or cause researcher is manipulating.
• Inductive

  • A reasoning that is the basis for the qualitative research approach
• Heterogeneous

  • Very different or varied group
• Subject

  • People who are being studied
• Relationship

  • Bond or connection between two variables
• Control

  • The group that does not get treatment
• Variable

  • Quality of interest or concept that can be manipulated, observed or studied
• Experimental or quantitative

  • Uses data that has numerical representation or value
• Data

  • Information, can be number or words
• Research

  • Systematic way to generate facts
• Experimental

  • Group that gets treatment
• Concepts

  • Building blocks of concept
• Delimitations

  • Addresses how the study will be narrowed in scope.
• Questionnaire

  • Sets of questions on specified subject the used to gather info
• Mean

  • Arithmetic average
• Applied Research

  • To generate knowledge
• Basic

  • Test theories
• Hypothesis

  • Researcher that states the relationship among or between variables
• Inductive reasoning

  • Basis for qualitative research
• Deductive reasoning

  • Basis for quantitative research
• Methodology

  • Sistematic approach to the conduct of a process. It includes steps of procedure, application of techniques, systems of analysis, and the modes of inquiry employed by a discipline
• Purpose of the study

  • specific research aims and objectives for the research
• Research design

  • researcher wants to know, experiment, and correlate…
• Significance of the study

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