NSE 212 Weeks 1-3
Theoretical Knowing - correct answer✔ ✔ - Developing or testing
theories or ideas
- Informed by empirical knowing
Empirical Knowing - correct answer✔ ✔ Observations (e.x.
delivering interventions, conducting surveys, questionnaires) about
reality
Post Positivism - correct answer✔ ✔ - Observations cannot always
be relied upon; subject to error & human bias
- Best we can do is approximation of reality
Quantitative Research - correct answer✔ ✔ - Series of logically
related steps
- Careful accounting for & control of factors that may influence research
findings
- Data usually numbers & statistical formulas
Quantitative Research Purposes - correct answer✔ ✔ - Description
- Explanation (test for presence of relationship or assess diff. in groups)
, - Prediction
- Control
Independent Variable - correct answer✔ ✔ - Variable that has effect
on DP (Y)
- Manipulated
Dependent Variable - correct answer✔ ✔ - Effect that varies with a
change in the IV (X)
- Not manipulated
Conceptual Definition - correct answer✔ ✔ - Similar to dictionary
definition
- How concept is defines in theoretical lit.
Operational Definition - correct answer✔ ✔ - How concept will be
measured
- Specifies what instruments will be used to measure or describe variable
- Links abstract concepts to more concrete variable
Types of Hypothesis - correct answer✔ ✔ - Directional
- Nondirectional
Theoretical Knowing - correct answer✔ ✔ - Developing or testing
theories or ideas
- Informed by empirical knowing
Empirical Knowing - correct answer✔ ✔ Observations (e.x.
delivering interventions, conducting surveys, questionnaires) about
reality
Post Positivism - correct answer✔ ✔ - Observations cannot always
be relied upon; subject to error & human bias
- Best we can do is approximation of reality
Quantitative Research - correct answer✔ ✔ - Series of logically
related steps
- Careful accounting for & control of factors that may influence research
findings
- Data usually numbers & statistical formulas
Quantitative Research Purposes - correct answer✔ ✔ - Description
- Explanation (test for presence of relationship or assess diff. in groups)
, - Prediction
- Control
Independent Variable - correct answer✔ ✔ - Variable that has effect
on DP (Y)
- Manipulated
Dependent Variable - correct answer✔ ✔ - Effect that varies with a
change in the IV (X)
- Not manipulated
Conceptual Definition - correct answer✔ ✔ - Similar to dictionary
definition
- How concept is defines in theoretical lit.
Operational Definition - correct answer✔ ✔ - How concept will be
measured
- Specifies what instruments will be used to measure or describe variable
- Links abstract concepts to more concrete variable
Types of Hypothesis - correct answer✔ ✔ - Directional
- Nondirectional
