Midterm Flashcards
(100 cards)
Tri Agency Research Funding Programs of Canada
- Social sciences and humanities (SSHRC)
- Natural sciences and engineering (NSERC)
- Canada institute of health research (CIHR)
Systematic research
problems, methods, data analysis, interpreatations
Logical research
others can evaluate conclusions drawn
empirical research
conclusions based on data
reductive research
data used to establish more general relationships
replicable research
research that others could build on / replicate
postpositivism
notion of a single reality / objective truth
constructivism
notion of multiple realities, focus on complexity of views
transformative
research that focuses on changing lives of participants
- needs to be intertwined with politics
- work collaboratively w/ participants
Pragmatism
research concerned with “what works best”
Two eyed seeing
indigenous or european, all knowledge systems are equitable. Diversity of perspectives
Qualitative
explores meanings ascribed by individuals or groups, question/theme based
Quantitative
relations among variables, statistics
kinesiology
study of human movement
statistics inform about:
- reliability
- meaningfulness
most quantitative
postpositivism
most qualitative
constructivism
central tendency definition
a single score that best represents all scores for a group of individuals
mean formula
mean =
sum of individual scores / amount of scores
median
midpoint number / mean of 2 midpoints
mode
most frequent number
variance (s^2)
best estimate of the spread of scores
standard deviation
square root of variance
ethics vs law
ethical principles can conflict, laws cannot conflict