Graphic structure that uses the shape and elements of a familiar natural or manmade artefact or of an easily recognizable activity or story to organize content meaningfully.
Concept map
Visual metaphor
Mindmap
Multicoloured and image-centred, radial diagram that represents semantic or other connections between portions of learned material hierarchically. Major ideas are connected directly to the central concept, and other ideas branch out from those.
Conceptual diagram
A top-down diagram showing the relationships between concepts, including cross connections among concepts, and their manifestations.
A systematic depiction of an abstract concept in pre-defined category boxes with specified relationships, typically based on a theory or model.
Mind map
This methodology entails collecting primarily textual data and examining it using interpretive analysis. So, the main way to collect data is by creating questionnaires (mostly open), preparing interviews, observing the process to be analysed, etc.
Qualitative research
Quantitative research
This methodology involves collecting primarily numerical data and analysing statistical methods.
CAQDAS stands for
Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis
Computer Assisted Quantitative Data Analysis
Group of participants whom the researcher examines in an empirical investigation.
Sample
Population
Group of people whom the study is about.
GNU environment for statistical computing and graphics developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies). It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms and similar systems (including FreeBSD and Linux), Windows and MacOS.
SPSS
R
MATLAB
