Key Terms

  • conflict of interest validity, 7
  • critical, 8
  • disciplined inquiry, 4
  • ecological validity, 7
  • emic perspective, 12
  • empirical information, 4
  • epistemological, 7
  • etic perspective, 12
  • grounded theory, 12
  • hypothesis, 5
  • inductive process, 12
  • interpretivist, 8
  • methodology, 10
  • methods, 10
  • mixed-methods, 10
  • ontological, 7
  • paradigms, 7
  • population validity, 7
  • positionality, 12
  • positivism, 7
  • qualitative research, 8
  • quantitative research, 4
  • research-based knowledge, 4
  • scientific method, 5
  • sources of knowledge, 4
  • true experiments, 5

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