Exam 1: Introduction to Research Methods

Educational researchers want to find out if students learn language better when they use digital flashcards to study at least once a day. The flashcards would be called:

A treatment is sufficient to make a study an experiment.

The fundamental difference between experimental and nonexperimental study designs is that experimental study designs:

When all individuals in a population are included in data collection, it is called a:

Which type of research often strives to select large samples to use as participants?

What is a common method used to analyze a sample and estimate how well it represents a population?

At colleges and universities, the ethics review process is managed by a committee that is commonly named:

Most institutions where research is conducted have an ethics review process.