research skills - Week 6

What is research?

• When you are given the answers

• When you use resources to find information

• When you copy someone else's work

• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Why should you cite your resources?

• To give credit to the people created it

• To copy another person's work

• To use it as our own

• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

It is the process of choosing samples from a population.

• Sample

• Population

• Sampling

Which is a form of secondary data?

• Case studies

• Government websites

• Interviews

• Observations

An independent research company wants to go door to door to survey people in the city of Fontana. The company decides to number all blocks within the city limit, randomly choose 1 block and survey all households on that block.

This is an example of:

• Simple Random Sample

• Stratified Random Sample

• Cluster Random Sample

• Systematic Random Sampling

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is simple random sampling?

• Methodically selecting a person or group on a random basis

• Each person in the population has an equal chance of being selected

• Selecting a cluster of people from the population

• Separating individuals in the sample into divisions

Identify the Sample:
A restaurant wants to know if their customers buy dessert when they eat out. As people leave the restaurant one evening, 20 people are surveyed at random. Eight people say they usually order dessert when they eat out. The restaurant concluded that most customers do not order dessert.

• 20 customers
• All customers
• 8 customers
• Dessert

An autobiography is a

• Primary Source
• Secondary Source

At school we use textbooks to learn about the history? When we use textbooks, what are we using?

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

This is a method of research where an investigator manipulates one or more factors (independent variables) to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process (the dependent variable).

• Experiments
• Case Study
• Survey
• Observational
• Correlational