Empirical Research Vocabulary

gives the source (the name(s) of the authors where the information was taken and the year of publicaton) in the body of the text

• references

• citation

• footnote

• caption

the results of research or an experiment

• measures

• findings

• samples

• variables

the title of a section of the article

• heading / subtitle

• abstract

• caption

• source / citation

a statement that explains or makes generalizations about a set of facts or principles, usually forming a basis for possible experiments to confirm if it is true

• research question

• conclusion

• purpose

• hypothesis

the published articles in an academic field

• sample

• literature

• hypothesis

• measure

a list of sources at the end of an article

• footnotes

• source

• references

• measures

a paragraph before the text that summarizes the article

• subjects

• heading

• abstract

• footnote

extent to which the results of a study are applicable to other populations and/or to the population of interest in general.

• limitation

• hypothesis

• assumption

• generalizability

restricts the generalizability of the results of a study to other populations/context

• hypothesis

• limitation

• implication

• literature

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an object, event, idea, belief, time period, or any other type of category you are trying to measure

• limitation

• citation

• instrument

• variable