Test Bank for Counseling and Educational
Research, 4th edition (All Chapters)
Research - answers-systematic investigation, including research development, testing and
evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge
Systematic, scientific, documented study.
First step of the scientific process - answers-Identify a problem
Second step of the scientific process - answers-define the problem operationally
Third step of the scientific process - answers-develop hypotheses or research questions
Fourth step of the scientific process - answers-identify and develop research design
Fifth step of the scientific process - answers-develop and identify methods
Sixth step of the scientific process - answers-collect the data
Seventh step of the scientific process - answers-analyze the data
Eighth step of the scientific process - answers-generate conclusions, limitations, future
implications
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, Ninth step of the scientific process - answers-report the data
Purpose statement - answers-an attempt by the researchers to identify the intent of the study
3 Components of purpose statements - answers-identify TYPE of study; type of VARIABLES used;
identification of population studied
independent variable - answers-controlled or selected by the researcher (cause)
dependent variable - answers-observed outcomes or phenomena (effect)
null hypothesis - answers-nothing will happen, no effect
alternative hypothesis - answers-statistical hypothesis based on a rejection of the null
hypothesis
nondirectional hypothesis - answers-difference between research groups (control and
experimental groups), but no direction is indicated
purpose of a literature review - answers-Systematically cites and synthesizes previous research,
framing your research study
Types of literature review - answers-Dissertations, narrative analysis (qual), meta-analysis
(quan)
Four measurement scale types - answers-Nominal, Interval, Ordinal, Ratio
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Research, 4th edition (All Chapters)
Research - answers-systematic investigation, including research development, testing and
evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge
Systematic, scientific, documented study.
First step of the scientific process - answers-Identify a problem
Second step of the scientific process - answers-define the problem operationally
Third step of the scientific process - answers-develop hypotheses or research questions
Fourth step of the scientific process - answers-identify and develop research design
Fifth step of the scientific process - answers-develop and identify methods
Sixth step of the scientific process - answers-collect the data
Seventh step of the scientific process - answers-analyze the data
Eighth step of the scientific process - answers-generate conclusions, limitations, future
implications
1
, Ninth step of the scientific process - answers-report the data
Purpose statement - answers-an attempt by the researchers to identify the intent of the study
3 Components of purpose statements - answers-identify TYPE of study; type of VARIABLES used;
identification of population studied
independent variable - answers-controlled or selected by the researcher (cause)
dependent variable - answers-observed outcomes or phenomena (effect)
null hypothesis - answers-nothing will happen, no effect
alternative hypothesis - answers-statistical hypothesis based on a rejection of the null
hypothesis
nondirectional hypothesis - answers-difference between research groups (control and
experimental groups), but no direction is indicated
purpose of a literature review - answers-Systematically cites and synthesizes previous research,
framing your research study
Types of literature review - answers-Dissertations, narrative analysis (qual), meta-analysis
(quan)
Four measurement scale types - answers-Nominal, Interval, Ordinal, Ratio
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