Research

Items

• inferential analysis

  Making estimates and predictions about the populations from a sample
• information

  Fact provided or learned about something or someone.
• infuse/infusion

  To introduce one thing into another so as to affect it throughout/ the creation of a new substance by steeping another substance
• insiderness

  The depth of understanding gained by being an insider or having direct experience within a specific context or group.  An approach to conducting research in which the researcher is positioned within the setting where they are gathering and analysing information.
• instagram (public domain)

  Is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Meta- plat-forms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organised by hashtags, and be associated with a location via tagging.
• instrumentation

  The general term that researchers use for a measurement device (survey, test, questionnaire, etc.).  Instrumentation is the course of action and instrument is a device.
• instruments

  Any device for systematically collecting data, such as a test, a questionnaire, or an interview schedule.
• interest

  A personal interest that has been refined by specificity, focus, and vantage point.
• internal consistency

  A measure based on the correlations between different items on the same test.
• internal factors

  Internal factors include intelligence, self-concept, and so on, while external factors include family, social status, academic environment, and so on.
• internal validity

  The extent to which the observed results represent the truth in the population we are studying and thus are not due to methodological errors.
• internet

  Global network of billions of computers and other electronic devices
• internet research

  A common practice of using internet information, especially free information on world wide web or internet based resources in research.
• interpretation

  The process of interpreting and making meaning of data produced in a research study is known as research result interpretation.
• interpretive

  Interpreting and making meaning of data.
• interpretivism
• interviewee

  A person interviewed for research purpose or responding to research questions.
• interviewer bias

  A qualitative research technique that involves using open-ended questions to converse with respondents and collect elicit data about a subject.
• interviewer

  A person coordinating the process of the conversation and asks research questions, or conducting an interview.
• interviews

  A form of data collection in which individuals are questioned orally.  It can either be face to face or over the telephone.
• introduction

  It refers to a beginning, introducing a new idea .
• investigation

  Process used to describe various methods and tools for finding information about a specific subject or incident that may be apparent.
• Irele's sociological approach

  A research approach that articulates what Irele call “a sociological continuum,” a straight line of development.
• italicise

  Refers to the use of italics.
• journal articles

  A piece of research, usually scientific or scholarly, published in a peer-reviewed academic journal.