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research

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a type of systematic investigation that is empirical in nature and is designed to contribute to public knowledge

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research enterprise

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the macro level effort to accumulation knowledge across multiple empirical systematics public research projects

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translational research

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the systematic effort to move research from initial discovery to practice and ultimately to impact in our lives

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research practice continuum

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the process of moving from an initial research idea or discovery to practice and the potential for the idea to influence our lives or world

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basic research

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research that is designed to generate discoveries and to understand how the discoveries work

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applied research

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research where a discovery is tested under increasingly controlled conditions in real world context

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implementation and dissemination research

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how well the researching test can be implemented and disseminated to a broad range of contexts that extend beyond the original controls

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impact research

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the research that assess the impact it has on society

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policy research

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research that is designed to investigate existing policies or to develop and test new ones

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research synthesiss

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systematic study of multiple prior research projects that address the same research question or topic and summarize the results in a manner that can be used by practitioners

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meta-analysis

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uses statistic methods to combine the results of similar studies quantitatively in order to allow general conclusions to be made

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systematic review

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research synthesis approach that focuses on a specific question or issue and uses specific preplanned methods to identify, select assess, and summarize the findings of multiple research studies

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guidline

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is the resul.ts of a systematic process that usually includes some estimates of how strong the evidence is for each recommendation

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evidence based practice (EBP)

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is a movement designed to encourage or requires practitioners to employ practices that are based on research evidence as reflected in research synthesis or practice guidelines

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evolutionary epistemology

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the branch of philosophy that holds that ideas evolve through the process of natural selection

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request for proposals

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government agencies that have problems that they would like researchers to address and would be willing to pay. they usually comeup with a way they want the researcher to address the problem

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literature review

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systematic compilation and written summary of all the literature published in scientific journals that is related to a research topic of interest

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peer review

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authors submit potential articles to a journal editor who solicits several reviewers who agree to give a critical review of the paper. they can either accept, reject or send it back to be revised and resubmitted

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theoretical

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meaning that much of its concerns with with developing, exploring, or testing the theories or ideas that social researchers have about the world operates

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emperical

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based off directional observation and measurements of reality

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probablistic

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based off probability

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causal

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something is a causal if it leads to an outcome or makes an outcome happen

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casual relatioship

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a cause effect relationshipq

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relational study

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a study that investigates the connection between two or more variables

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causal studies

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a study that investigates a causal relationship between two variables

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cross sectional study

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a study that takes place at a single point in time

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longitudinal

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a study that takes place over time

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repeated measure

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two or more waves of measurment over time

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time series

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many waves of measurement over time

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relationship

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that two things perform in a synchronized manner

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third variable

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an unobserved variable that accounts fora correlation between two variables

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postitive relationship

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high values on one variable are associated with high values on the other variable

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negative relationship

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high values on one variable are associated with low variables in another variable

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hypothesis

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a specific statement or prediction

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hypothetico deductive model

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a model in which two mutually exclusive hypothesises that together exhaust all possible outcomes are tested, such that one hypothesis must be accepted and the other rejected

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attribute

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a specific value for a variable

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exhaustive

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a property of a variable that occurs when you include all possible answerable responses

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hierarchical modeling

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a statistical model that allows for the inclusion of data at different levels where the unit of analysis at some levels is neated with in the unit of analysis at others

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deductive

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top down reasoning that works from the more general to the more specific

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inductive

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bottom up reasoning that begins with specific observations and measures and ends up as general conclusions or theories

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operationalization

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changes your ideas into reality, treatment of program into an actual program. what you want to measure into actually measuring it

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validity

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the best avaliable aproximation of the truth of a giventruth of a given proposition inference or conclusion

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cause construct

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when you investigate a cause effect relationship you have a theory of what the cause is

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effect construct

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you have an idea of what you are trying to affect and measure

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conclusion variablity

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the degree in which conclusions you reach about relationships in your data are reasonable

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internal validity

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the approximate truth about inference regarding cause-effect or causal relationships

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construct validity

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the degree to which inferences can legitimately be made from the operationalizations in your study to to the theorietical constructs on which those operationalizatios area based

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external validitys

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the degree to which the conclusions in your study would hold for other persons in other places at other times

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threats to validity

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reasons your conclusions or inferences are wrong