{"id":5,"date":"2024-04-04T07:24:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T04:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/digitalenglishstudies\/tests-and-study-sets\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T07:25:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T04:25:14","slug":"tests-and-study-sets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/digitalenglishstudies\/tests-and-study-sets\/","title":{"rendered":"Key concepts: research frames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tList of key concepts for understanding the basic research framses used in English studies.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Basic research frames<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<table class=\"table table-hover\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"5\" style=\"width: 1000px\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"col\">\n\t\t\t\tConcept\n\t\t\t<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\">\n\t\t\t\tExplanation\n\t\t\t<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\taction research\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tresearch 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\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tcase study\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tin-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\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\texperiment\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tresearch used to find out whether or to what extent one thing causes another to happen; trying to see if x causes y\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tinformed consent\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tthe 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\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tintrospection\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\trelying on one\u2019s 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\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tobservation\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tone of the most important ways of collecting data in social research; watching carefully to systematically look for particular kinds of behaviour\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\treliability\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\thow 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.\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\treplicability\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\thypothesis or claims based on the findings of scientific investigations are verified by attempts to replicate them by repeating the procedure of the original investigation\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tqualitative analysis\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tan 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\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tvalidity\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\thow accurately a method measures what it isintended to measure; if research has high validity,that means it produces results that correspond toreal properties, characteristics, and variations inthe physical or social world\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<br>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>List of key concepts for understanding the basic research framses used in English studies. 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