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- - - - achievement, intelligence, creativity
- - - - independent variable
        
        the presumed cause in an experimental study
        
        it is manipulated in experimental research
      - dependent variable
        
        the presumed effect
    - - predictor variable
        
        something you think has an effect on something
      - explanatory variable
      - extraneous
        
        not of interest and may influence the outcome of an experiment
    - - Nominal
      - Ordinal
    - - Interval
      - Ratio
    - - things that affect the outcome but are not measured
  - - - nominal: categories that describe traits, numbers do not indicate any value or amount. They name something.
      - ordinal: characteristic, trait or attribute of participants are rank ordered
      - interval: equal intervals between numbers, provides coninuous response posibilities
        
        addition and subtraction possible
        
        achievement, attitude scores.
      - ratio: a continuous scale with a true zero and equal distances among units: time, height, weight.
- - - - Correlational
        
        *one group, 2 variables
        
        relationship between self-esteem vs math scores
        
        investigate relationships between two or more factors/variables
      - Causal comparative
        
        *2 groups
        
        the cause has already occured
        
        attempts to determine the consequences of differences that already exist between or among groups of individuals.
      - Survey
        
        used to describe attitudes, opinions, behaviours, or characteristics of population
    - - Single-Subject
        
        Single participant or group
      - Quasi-Experimental
        
        Lacks random assignment
      - True Experimental
        
        Randomly assigned participants
  - - - Grounded Theory
        
        Develop or construct a theory directly from the data
      - Ethnographic
        
        Study of culture (over time)
      - Narrative
        
        A story about a significant issue in a participant's life
      - Case Study
        
        Study of a single event
    - - interviews
      - focus groups
      - observations
      - casual conversations
      - surveys/questionnaires
      - journals
    - - using more than one method to collect data on the same topic
        
        cross-validate data
- - - - internal
      - external
- - - - Cluster
      - Stratified
      - Systematic
      - Simple Random
    - - Convenience
      - Purposeful
      - Snowball