How Things Work - Doha Academy of Tertiary Studies

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exhibit question: an interview question including a picture or selection of text
about which the question is asked.
experiential knowing: to know something by experiencing it.
experimentalism: belief in learning by conducting experiments.
explication: something stated carefully and with precision.
field (as in fieldwork): going to where the action is.
field (as in field oriented): attention to a research discipline, such as music.
forensics: preparing evidence for formal argument, such as in court.
foreshadowing question: a major concern anticipated.
formulaic: looking like it was done mechanically.
fortuitous: determined by chance.
functional relationship: formal statement of how one thing is determined by
others.
generalization: applying a statement to many or all cases.
habituation: custom or habit.
haptic: bodily sensation.
Hawthorne effect: effect on outcomes from being given increased attention.
hermeneutics: the study of the meanings of human action.
heuristic: a guide to thinking.
histrionic: theatrical.
holistic: giving attention to the whole more than to one or more parts.
icon: a highly meaningful image.
incrementally: small steps one at a time.
informant: someone on the inside willing to tell you about something.
information domains: topics, content categories.
information set: cluster of data from a method or about a topic.
intellectual structure: any patterning of one’s thinking.
interpretive: relies on human reasoning and judgment.
interrogatory: questioning.
interview records: data obtained by questioning, usually face-to-face.
issue: a problematic theme having tension and advocacy.
iterative: deliberately repetitive.
level of confidence: a degree of assurance, sometimes statistically indicated.
logic modeling: the steps of a pattern of correlations.
lore: knowledge from experience.
macroanalysis: the analysis of very large collectivities.
macrocosm: a very big system.