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Chapter 3 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1.Research | "The creation of new knowledge and usually involves gaining an understanding of natu- ral phenomena." |
| 2.Basic Research | "The process of investigating and understanding how nature functions. |
| 3.Applied Research | "The process of taking the discoveries learned in basic research and finding ways to make use of the knowlege |
| 4.Hatch Act | "A federal law passed in 1887 that established agricultural experiment stations oper- ated by the land grant colleges in every state." |
| 5.Experiment Stations | "A way to test a hypoth- esis in which a treatment group is compared to a control group." |
| 6.Patent | "Government issued guarantees that the person or persons inventing a device or process has sole rights to the invention or process. |
| 7.Intellectual Property(IP) | " Ideas, concepts, and inventions that individual scholars or groups of scholars create." |
| 8.Scientific Method | "A systematic approach, gen- erally adopted as the standard procedure for con- ducting research, that consists of seven deliberate steps: stating the problem, formulating a hypoth- esis, designing the research methodology, conduct- ing the experiment, col |
| 9.Statement Of The Problem | " The first step in the scientific method and should clearly provide a basis and rationale for conducting research." |
| 10.Hypothesis | "A belief based on a study of rel- evant scientific literature |
| 11.Theory | "An explanation of existing observa- tions based on the conclusions of several different research studies." |
| 12. Literature Search | "One of the first steps in prop- erly conducting research; it entails a thorough search for literary information on the research topic." |
| 13.Fact | "A phenomenon that has been proven beyond a doubt." |
| 14.Experimental Design | " A way to test a hypoth- esis in which a treatment group is compared to a control group." |
| 15.Reliability | "The ability to replicate a research study that has been done and come up with the same results." |
| 16.Validity | "\ A term used to describe whether a research study achieved what the researcher intended it to." |
| 17.Treatment Group | " One of two observation groups that will be given a different treatment which the researcher intends to study." |
| 18.Control Group | " One of two observation groups that will be identical to the other group with the exception of the research treatment." |
| 19.Data | " The bits of information obtained and recorded that will form the basis for accepting or rejecting the hypothesis." |
| 20.T-test | "A tool used by scientists to analyze dif- ferences in samples; it involves complicated math- ematical calculations that are generated by a computer resulting in a t-value output |
| 21.Significance | " The probability that a difference in research findings happened by sampling error or chance." |
| 22.Confidence Level | "The point at which research results are consistently proven accurate and accepted as reliable." |
| 23.Correlated | " The relationship of one set of data to another set of data." |
| 24.Peer Review | " A process where other scientists evaluate the research done by other scientists." |
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