Unit 3 Review-AP RESEARCH

Unit 3 Review Guide

Validity Re-read the readings on validity (both internal and external) and review your notes on specific strategies that can be used to ensure validity.

• Internal Validity    * Definition    * Strategies for ensuring internal validity    * Confounding Variables       * How to control for confounding variables
• External Validity    * Definition    * Strategies for ensuring external validity    * Generalizability

Quantitative Methods I recommend re-reading and reviewing notes on the Quantitative Method reading. Any quantitative methods mentioned in that reading may appear on the exam.

• What is quantitative research?
• How is it different from qualitative?
• Examples of quantitative methods    * Definitions    * Benefits/Limitations of the methods    * When to use those methods

Qualitative Methods I recommend re-reading and reviewing notes on the Qualitative Method reading. Any qualitative methods mentioned in that reading may appear on the exam.

• What is qualitative research?
• How is it different from quantitative?
• Examples of qualitative methods    * Definitions    * Benefits/Limitations of the methods    * When to use those methods

Ethics Basic concepts concerning ethics will be covered on the exam.

• Informed Consent    * Defined    * When to use    * How to use
• Treatment of Participants