| research that is undertaken by practitioners (e.g. teachers, social workers, nurses or doctors) for the purpose of helping to develop their practice; it is usually done at the same time as performing that practice; the central is change and the emphasis is on problem-solving |
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| in-depth research into one case or a small set of cases, e.g. a child, a hospital ward, an event; the aim is to gain a rich, detailed understanding by examining aspects of the case in detail |
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| research used to find out whether or to what extent one thing causes another to happen; trying to see if x causes y |
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| the process of telling potential research particpants about the key elements of a research study and what their participation will involve; one of the central components of the ethical conduct of research with human subjects |
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| relying on one's own intuition as a source of data about the nature of their language; e.g. these intuitions often take the form of judgements about whether a given sentence is grammatical in your language; relying solely on introspection is not considered an appropriate approach in a scientific research |
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| one of the most important ways of collecting data in social research; watching carefully to systematically look for particular kinds of behaviour |
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| an analysis that does not rely on numeric data; e.g. if you look at a word in a concordance and analyse its usage based on your own understanding of the examples you have seen, this is a qualitative analysis; the best corpus analyses are both qualitative and quantitative |
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| how consistently a method measures something; if the same result can be consistently achieved by using the same methods under the same circumstances, the measurement is considered reliable. |
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| hypothesis or claims based on the findings of scientific investigations are verified by attempts to replicate them by repeating the procedure of the original investigation |
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