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Guide #1
Transgender - denoting or relating to a person whose selfidentity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions
of male or female gender.
Ethnic Psychoses - mental disorders specific to particular ethnic
groups
Informal Science - science teaching and learning that occurs
outside of the formal school curriculum in places such as
museums, the media, and community-based programs.
Formal Science - an area of study that uses formal systems to
generate knowledge such as in Mathematics and Computer
Science.
Problem Solving - the act of defining a problem; determining
the cause of the problem; identifying, prioritizing and selecting
alternatives for a solution; and implementing a solution
Research Hypothesis - the statement created by researchers
when they speculate upon the outcome of a research or
experiment.
Null Hypothesis - refers to a general statement or default
position that there is no relationship between two measured
phenomena, or no difference among groups.
Quantitative Data - information about quantities
Qualitative Data - a categorical measurement expressed not in
terms of numbers, but rather by means of a natural language
description (i.e. this is blue)
Standardized Measurements - accepted or approved instance
or example of a quantity or quality against which others are
judged or measured or compared.
Random Sample - a set of items that have been drawn from a
population in such a way that each time an item was selected,
every item in the population had an equal opportunity to appear
in the sample.
Statistical Analysis - involves collecting and scrutinizing every
data sample in a set of items from which samples can be drawn.
Fact - something known to exist or to have happened: