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