Exam 2: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Research

The idea that people see and understand the world through the lens of their local language is called which of the following?

A researcher examines the impact of exposure to engineering design problems on interest in becoming an engineer. Interest in becoming an engineer is what kind of variable?

A research studies how teachers interact when they eat lunch together. She records the conversation and looks for themes, patterns, and meanings in the recorded conversation. What kind of research is the researcher carrying out?

Which correlation is the strongest?

Which correlation is the strongest?

An effective way to control for extraneous variables is to:

What kind of research is characterized by pluralism?

In what kind of research involves collecting multiple types of data?

The correlation between education and income is:

A mediating variable is:

A researcher is interested in the effects of a YouTube video on student learning of a topic in statistics (e.g., how to calculate a correlation coefficient). He randomly assigns 50 students to one of two conditions. In one condition, the students read a traditional text. In the second condition, students view a YouTube video. He measures their performance on a post-test. In this scenario, type of instruction (text versus video) serves as the:

Describe the characteristics of quantitative research.

Case study research only focuses on a detailed account of one case.

Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam would be three possible responses for a variable measuring religion identification. What kind of variable would this be?

What kind of research is "exploratory objective" most closely associated with?

A researcher is interested in the effects of teaching students problem-solving strategies on their abilities to solve complex mathematics problems. She randomly assigns students to either learn the strategies, or participate in a control group. She then compares their performance on a complex problem-solving task. The student performance scores on the complex problem task are the:

In what kind of research does the researcher collect in-depth interview and participant observation data?

What is the definition of extraneous variable?

Which type of research relies more on numerical data?

_______ research occurs when the researcher manipulates the independent variable.