Dr.
Menjívar
Study Guide #3 (Final Exam)
Chapter
8
List
topics appropriate for experiments.
Describe
and illustrate the major components of the classical experiment.
Describe
the three strategies for selecting subjects.
Describe
pre-experimental designs, list examples of each of these three designs, and
assess the strengths and weaknesses of each.
Describe
the Solomon four-group and the posttest only designs.
Describe
the logic behind the double-blind experiment.
Describe
and illustrate natural experiments.
Examine
the strengths and weaknesses of the experimental method.
Chapter
9.
List
appropriate topics for survey designs.
List
the sampling techniques used in survey research
Assess
the strengths and weaknesses of survey design.
Understand
why mail surveys need to be monitored.
Describe
the rules for successful interviewing.
Describe
secondary analysis (along with its strengths and weaknesses).
Compare
and contrast the three main forms of survey designs.
Chapter
10.
Give
examples of topics particularly appropriate for field research.
Compare
the roles that field researchers may take.
Describe
the main sampling techniques used by qualitative researchers
Provide
advice on each of the steps in preparing for the field and on recording
observations in field research.
Describe
the (five) qualitative field research paradigms and what questions/issues can
one study from each of these perspectives.
Provide
advice for asking questions in field research, and compare a field research
interview with normal conversation.
Address
the strengths and weaknesses of field research.
Chapter
11.
Describe
and give examples of the three unobtrusive research designs.
Give
examples of content analysis in which the unit of analysis differs from the
unit of observation.
Illustrate
the sampling techniques that researcher might use in content analysis (including
the development of categories for coding).
Describe
an ecological fallacy.
Differentiate
manifest content from latent content and describe how each is conducted.
Chapter
3.
Define
what ethics and politics in research means.
Describe
the ethical issues involved in the examples that your text provides (Humprey’s
and Milgram’s studies) and in the film the Tuskeegee Experiment.
What
lessons have we learned from these studies?
Describe
ethical issues involved in: voluntary participation, no harm to subjects,
anonymity and confidentiality, the researcher’s identity, and analysis and
reporting.
**Here is a list that will be helpful in comparing the different methods we
have covered in class. For each method you have reviewed based on
guidelines above (experiment, survey, field, and unobtrusive—including content,
historical comparative, and existing statistics), try to identify the
following: