CRCJ 3001- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 21 pages long!)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 3001
• Professor: Jack Vandenberg

Document Summary

Experimental model: random selection, random assignment, pre post measure. Quasi experimental model: random selection, pre-existing membership in levels, pre-post measures. Try different two different treatments; random assign males in one treatment and another in the other treatment vice versa for the females. Mixed method model: random selection, more than 1 iv which could be random assignment, pre Initial understanding or prediction in your experiment based all of the background information. It is tentative, so it could be wrong. Race of the victim: the independent variable. Expectations that are fulfilled versus those that aren"t filled. Independent: doing something to a group; comparing males and females but using a quasi- experimental designs you"ll need another: dependent: must be collected as quantitative by using numbers. Qualitative could be converted in quant: control: confound variable that affects the dependent in a way that the researcher doesn"t want to. Ex: those who come to class versus how well you do on the mid- term.