Online Continuing Education Courses

The Association-Oriented Research Strategy

• List the two research methods that are included in the association-oriented research strategy.
• Identify and explain the three major research procedures that define the correlational research method.
• List the three principal research designs that are included under the correlational research method.
• List the two principal research designs included under the predictive research method.
• Distinguish between correlational research and correlational statistics.
• Explain the relationship between correlation and causation.
• Explain how association-oriented research may function as an antecedent, or precursor, to difference- oriented research.
• Read and critique published research reports that exemplify the correlational research method and the predictive research method.