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| 3 When we wish to investigate the ____________ between or among two or more variables, we would undertake a correlational study. | 1 The goal of evaluation research is to assess the impact or __________ of a program, policy or procedure which is being implemented. |
| 6 The 'heart and soul' of any research study is its research question(s) or statement of the __________. | 2 Information gathered by the researcher during the study is also known as _________. |
| 7 Information in the form of numbers is also known as _________ data. | 4 Descriptive research studies are _________ in nature because they seek to establish a baseline understanding of some variables or phenomena of interest. |
| 10 Having a sincere _________ about something often leads to the development of a related research question. | 5 Implications refer to the expected value or ____________ of a given research study to the world at large. |
| 11 Because it is often impractical to include everyone in our study, we may need to select a -----________ of research subjects. | 8 The experimental or _______ subgroup 'gets' the variable of interest in the study. |
| 13 Researchers usually wish to generalize or project the results of a given research study to the entire target _________ to which they were intended to apply | 9 In an experimental study, the variable that 'comes first' and is used to form the subgroups to be compared is also known as the ________ variable. |
| 16 Experimental research studies are characterized by relatively tight _________ over the variables. | 12 Collecting and analyzing data in more than one form within a given study (for example, both interview and survey information) is known as ___________ research. |
| 17 Data collection procedures are the step-by-step _________ plan for carrying out the research study. | 14 Projections or generalizations of an individual research study to a broader group of subjects are also known as ___________. |
| 21 Information-gathering 'vehicles' such as surveys and interview guides are also referred to as __________. | 15 A variable whose value remains unchanged across all research subjects is known as a _________. |
| 22 A descriptive research study seeks to _______ 'what is/what are.' | 16 A variable which is hard to control, but which can also be the 'true hidden cause' of what happens in the study, is also known as a ___________ variable. |
| 23 Qualitative information is in the form of _______. | 18 When the results of different paths of data collection (for example, survey vs. interview results) agree or _______, we can be more certain of the credibility of those results. |
| 24 There are two basic types of research recommendations: recommendations for __________ and recommendations for future research. | 19 __________ is a special case of correlation when one variable precedes the other(s) in time, and we use our knowledge of that first variable to forecast what we expect the other variable(s) to be. |
| 25 Just because two or more variables 'go together' (are 'correlated') does NOT necessarily imply that one variable _________ the other(s). | 20 The results of a given research study are also known as the ________. |
| 26 Bona fide research differs from simply summarizing past findings in that the researcher actually collects and analyzes _________ data of his/her own to add to what is already known in a given topic. |