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WGU Research Foundations
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1. action research lit review

2. research topic

3. Quantitative Variable

4. deductive reasoning

5. even in the face of replication, strong evidence rather than proof is all that is obtained because researchers always leave open the possibility that future researchers will come up with new theories and new conclusions

6. an explanation ( that often explains how and why) - can be tentative or well tested - can vary from small to large - can be informal or very formal - when well developed it explains how something operates in general and it enables one to move beyond the findings of any single research study

7. non-experimental research

8. Implementation Assessment

9. Formative Evaluation

10. Five types of Educational Research

11. Abstract

12. enables researchers to identify causal relationships because it allows researchers to observe, under controlled conditions, the effects of systematically changing one or more variables.

13. quality criteria

14. Categorical variable

15. Features of Science Research

16. Explanatory research

17. Rationalism

18. Applied Educational Research

19. Impact Assessment

20. Understanding

21. emic perspective

22. Nine criteria for good theory

23. meta-analysis

24. Research Literature

25. Biased Samples