Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
67 results found in Research Methodology.
- Symbolic Interactionism (SI)
- A sociological tradition, associated with Herbert Blumer and the Chicago School following George Herbert Mead, that understands social reality as constructed through ongoing interaction: people act to…
- System Usability Scale (SUS)
- A widely used, standardized questionnaire consisting of 10 items that measures perceived usability of a system. Developed by John Brooke in 1986, SUS provides a "quick and dirty" reliable measure of u…
- Systematic Review (Systematic Literature Review)
- A systematic review is a rigorous, reproducible synthesis of research on a narrowly-defined question, using a pre-registered protocol, exhaustive database search, explicit inclusion and exclusion crit…
- Theory of Change (ToC, Logic Model)
- An explicit articulation of how and why a planned intervention is expected to produce its intended outcomes - typically expressed as a chain linking inputs to activities, outputs, short- and long-term…
- Vignette Study (Vignette-Based Method, Vignette)
- A research method in which participants are presented with short, carefully constructed scenarios describing hypothetical or realistic social situations, then asked to make judgments about appropriate…
- Wide-Range Achievement Test (WRAT, WRAT-5, WRAT sentence comprehension)
- A standardised achievement test used to measure basic academic skills, including word reading, sentence comprehension, spelling, and math computation. In accessibility research, the WRAT sentence-comp…
- Wizard-of-Oz Study (WOz Study, Wizard of Oz Method, WOz Technique)
- A research methodology in human-computer interaction where participants believe they are interacting with an autonomous system, but a hidden human operator (the "wizard") is actually controlling some …