Research 2
Terms
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- Theoretical field
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Broad discourse subject area
including perhaps academic, professional knowledge, debate - problematic
- key word, positions and debates that define the problem
- problem
- conceptual structure for research
- nominal scale
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names... such as gender,
nouns, not usually organized in a particular order - name 5 inquiry designs
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experimental
pre-test post-test
double-blind
quasi-experimental
ex post facto - emperical field
- general area of practice or activity or experience about which you intend to make claims
- emperical setting
- the selection and elaboration of a region, the specific site for emperical work
- conclusion
- recasting of propositions, hypotheses or questions as a result or finding
- hypothesis
- unimproved theory, tentatively stated, to explain certain facts
- What is Paul Dowling's social activity theory
- language of description
- what is the Hawthorne effect?
- Frederick W. Taylor's experiment at Western Electric Co, Hawthorne, that indicated tested subjects improved work output simply because they were receiving attention from the test administrators
- how is recontextualization achieved?
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through principles of selection and organization
- what is the epistimological paradox?
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the act of making experience explicit of necessity entails its transformation
- what is ex post facto research?
- exploring the effects of a treatment that has already taken place
- define correlation
- a statistical measure of agreement between two coding results
- define content
- a description of a component to be studied
- what makes a sample a random sample
- all components have an equal chance of being selected
- define validity, what weakens it?
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the relationship between theoretical concept variables and emperical indicator variables
Ambiguities weaken validity - measurement levels.... name 4
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nominal
ordinal
interval
ratio - define reliability
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a measure of consistency of a coding process
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list a variable scale
make it interval -
calender years
1901, 2001, 3001