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.