Practical Research 2 - Key Vocabulary

Flashcards on Practical Research 2 Module 1

Research

A scientific, experimental, or inductive manner of thinking.

Inquiry

Synonymous with the word “investigation”.

Experimental design

A research design that allows the researcher to control the situation and identifies the cause and effect relationship between variables.

Non-experimental

Equated with survey research and is very common in the social sciences.

Numerical data

Pertains to a number or symbol to express how many, how much or what rank things are to have in this world.

Quantitative research

Makes you focus your mind by means of statistics that involve collection and study of numerical data.

Research hypothesis

A tentative explanation that accounts for a set of facts and can be tested by further investigation.

Research title

Summarizes the main idea or ideas of your study; It condenses the paper’s main ideas/ideas into few words.

Variable

A characteristic or attribute of interest in the research study that can take on different values and is not constant.

Alternative hypothesis (HA)

The one we want to be true

Null hypothesis (HO)

The opposite of the alternative hypothesis