7400.685-080 - Research Methods in FCS
School of Family and Consumer Sciences
http://www3.uakron.edu/witt/rmfcs/rmfcs.htm
Spring Semesters - Tuesday Evenings 5:20-7:55pm in 209 Schrank Hall South
Instructor: David D. Witt, Ph.D.
Key Terms for Chapters 5, 6 and 7
For this homework assignment, define each of the terms in the tables below.  All these terms come from the textbook chapters
                     
                       Chapter 6 - Qualitative and Unobtrusive Measures
   case study
    coding
    construct validity
    content analysis
    data audit
    direct observation
    epistemological assumptions
    ethnography
    exception dictionary
    field research
    grounded theory
     indirect measure
   mixed method research  
   participant observation
   phenomenology
   post-positivism
   qualitative data
   qualitative data
   quantitative data
   secondary analysis
   unobtrusive measures
   unstructured interviewing
                         
                         Chapter 8 - Experimental Designs
    Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA or ANACOVA)
    Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
    control group
    covariates
    factor
    factorial designs
    fully-crossed factorial design
    incomplete factorial design
    interaction effect
     main effect
    null case
    probabilistic equivalence
    random assignment
    Randomized Block design (RD)
    selection-mortality
    Switching-Replications design
    two-group posttest-only randomized experiment
    variability