Important Terms

Glossary

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Abstract

Accidental Sample

Analysis

Bias (Researcher Bias)

Case study

Categories

Causation

Central tendency

Citation

Common Sense

Conclusion

Content Analysis

Convenience Sample

Correlation

Cross-sectional Survey

Deduction

Dependent Variable

Descriptive

Electronic Journal

Empirical data

Ethnocentrism

Experiment

Explanatory

Exploratory

Field work

Frequency

Generalization

Holism

Hypothesis

Independent Variable

Induction

Journal

Laboratory

Latent Content

Logic

Longitudinal Study

Manifest Content

Mean

Measurement Object

Median

Misappropriation

Mode

Monograph

Monograph

Multimodal

Natural science

Nominal

Non-Participant Fieldwork

Observation Tool

Operationalization

Ordinal

Paraphrase

Participant Fieldwork

Peer-reviewed publication

Plagiarism

Population

Prediction

Purposive Sample

Qualitative Content Analysis

Quantitative Content Analysis

Quota Sample

Quote

Random Assignment

Random Sample

Ratio

Repeatability

Research Method

Research Power

Sample

Science

Skewed Data

Snowball Sample

Stratified Random Sample

Synthesis

Technology

Theory

Unimodal

Variable