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These is glossary of research key terms. This glossary is intended as an aid to
professionals and non-professionals who find the world of research
somewhat intimidating. While it is impossible to cover all the terms
that can be confusing, this document briefly defines some of the more
common terms and concepts. | |
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| Term | Definition |
| Attrition | A reduction in the number of participants during the course of a study. If more participants withdraw from one group than another group, this can introduce bias and threaten the internal validity of the research. |
| Audit trail | The systematic presentation of material gathered within a naturalistic study that allows others to follow and audit the researcher's thinking and conclusions about the data. |
| Average | a term that refers to the central tendency or typical score of a bivariate distribution, it could refer to statistical average (sum of all cases/number of cases), median (the middle point in a distribution) or the mode, (the most frequently occurring classification of a variable). |
| Basic Research | 1. The kind of research usually done by academics. Typically tries to uncover universal relationships among variables. This kind of research generally has implications for solving particular problems in specific organizations, but is primarily motivated by a generic desire to understand how things work. 2. Contrasts with applied research. |
| Bedrock assumptions | Assumptions about a theory that are unchallengeable and protected. |
| Behaviorism | The derivation of general laws of how people and animals behave through observation, deduction and (usually verificationist) experiment. |
| Behaviour | The combined observable responses of a person to internal and external stimuli. |
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