Exam 3: Quantitative Research Designs

What is a Solomon Four-Group Design?

The symbol ______ is used by researchers to represent measurement of the dependent variable.

Dependent variables are influenced by and dependent on independent variables.

What is an independent variable?

Those characteristics about a person that the researcher cannot manipulate are referred to as ______.

A(n) ______ variable is an event, condition, or measured attribute or characteristic that the researcher for the most part controls.

What is a dependent variable?

The symbol ______ is used by researchers to represent an assignment that is random.

______ variables are considered to be either uncontrolled or unknown factors that can potentially affect the results or the response to the dependent variable.

A ______ amount of control used by researchers is seen in a preexperimental type of design.

Quantitative research has been associated with the philosophical paradigm of ______.

List and discuss the four different approaches of descriptive research.

______ type of design typically do not allow for detection of differences through comparisons with other groups or with multiple assessments of baseline.

What two types of research designs have been categorized as preexperimental?

A pretest-posttest is found in what type of experimental design?

Descriptive designs are an attempt by the researcher to characterize events or conditions of an identified population.

What are the two criteria used in distinguishing true experimental designs from other designs?

When the researcher is unable to use random assignment to groups, there are fewer threats to the internal validity of the study because there are possible differences between the group members prior to the intervention.

Define "attributes" and provide three examples.

How do Tuli (2010) define a positivism approach?