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Epistemology

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the theory of knowledge; the branch of philosophy that investigates how people know what they know.

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Positivist Paradigm

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Objective
"real reality"
driven by natural laws
context minimized
aims to describe, predict, explain & control
neutral observer
experimental method
truth sought via replicable observation
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Constructivist Paradigm

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Subjective
multiple realities
influenced by culture  & environment
context emphasized
aims to describe, understand, transform
active participant
dialogic, transformative
truth determined by individual and group
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What paradigm is qualitative research?

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Constructivist

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*Phenomenology

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Method: Individual’s LIVED experience
Foundation: Philosophy

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Bracketing

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Identify & set aside personal biases

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*Grounded Theory

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Method: Used to develop/CONSTRUCT** a theory
Foundation:
Data collection: Constant comparison*

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Modifiability

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ability to change theory in light of new data

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Grounded theory data collection & analysis uses a ___ construct

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Constant Comparative Construct

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Ethnography

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Method: description of cultural groups or subgroups
Foundation:cultural anthropology
Data collection: Fieldwork/ field notes

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*Emic View

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Insider’s view; view of the participants or members of the social group

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*Etic View

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Outsider’s view; researcher’s interpretation of views about the human social life in a social science perspective

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*Ethnography utilizes which kind of data collection

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Field notes / Field work

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Historical Method

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Method: Systematic compilation of data to describe some past event
Foundation: philosophy, art, science

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Basic components to research

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  • Identify the phenomenon
  • Structuring the study
  • Gathering the data
  • Analyzing the data
  • Describing the findings
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*Credibility

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TRUTH OF FINDINGS are judged by participants and others within the dicipline

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*Auditability

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Accountability as judged by the ADEQUACY OF INFORMATION leading the reader from the research question and raw data through various steps of analysis to the interpretation of findings.

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*Fittingness

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FAITHFULNESS TO EVERYDAY REALITY of the participants, described in enough detailso that others in the discipline can EVALUATE IMPORTANCE FOR THEIR OWN PRACTICE, RESEARCH & THEORY DEVELOPMENT

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*Confirmability

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Findings that reflect implementation of CREDIBILITY, AUDITABILITY and FITTINGNESS standards.

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*Trustworthiness

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Rigor or goodness of data

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Triangulation

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Combining methods, theories, dat sources, or investigators to converge on a single construct.

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*Constructivist

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Truth determined by the individual or cultural group

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*Positivist

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Truth sought via replicable observation

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Purpose of research design:

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  • Avoid bias
  • Provide plan to aid in solving problem/question/hypothesis
  • Allows researcher to apply different levels of control so it can be said that the independent variable REALLY changed the dependent variable and not something else
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Internal Validity

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Asks if it is the independent variable (or something else) that caused or resulted in the change in the dependent variable.

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Threats to internal validity

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Selection
Maturation
Testing
Mortality
Instrumentation
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External Validity

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Questions the conditions under which the findings may be generalized. Deals with the ability to generalized the findings outside of the study.
-across types of persons, settings, & times.

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Threats to external validity

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Selection effects (Who)
Reactive Effects (where-how)
Measurement effects (how-when-what)
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3 Characteristics of a true experiment or RCT/Experimental Design Features

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Randomization
Control Group
Manipulation

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Types of Experimental designs (Level II)

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True experimental design
Solomon four-group design
After-only design

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Experimental Design - Advantages/Disadvantages

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  • MOST appropriate for testing cause-&-effect relationships
  • Provides highest level of evidence for single studies
  • Not all research questions are amenable to experimental manipulation or randomization
  • Costly
  • Threats to internal validity not controlled by RCT: Subject mortality, Testing
  • Difficult logistics in field settings
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Hawthorne effect

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just participating in atrial alters the behavior of the subjects, which can effect validity of study/results.

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Types of Quasi-experimental design types (Level III)

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  • Nonequivalent control group design
  • After-only nonequivalent group design
  • One-group (pretest, post-test design)
  • Time series design
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Quasi-experimental advantages and disadvantages

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  • Practical and more feasible, especially in clinical settings
  • Some generalizability
  • UNABLE to amke clear cause-and-effect statements
  • May not be able to randomize
  • May control some extraneous variables: A priori by design, statistically
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Experimental & Quasi-experimental studies offer

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Strongest evidence for interventions

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Non-experimental designs (Level IV & V)

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(are still RESEARCH)

  • No manipulation of an independent variable (independent variables have already occurred)
  • Concepts of control still observed
  • Cohort- subjects of a specific group that are being studied
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Corhort

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subjects of a specific group that are being studied

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Random Assignment controls for?

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Selection Bias

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Another name for study weakness is:

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Limitations

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The threat to internal validity that is most difficult to control is?

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Mortality

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The degree to which study results can be applied to the larger population refers to :

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External Validity

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Which type of design controls for the reactive effects of the pretest?

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Solomon four-group

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*A true experiment requires:

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Control
Manipulation
Randomization

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*What must be present in a quasi-experimental research?

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Manipulation of a variable

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*The paradigm guiding a qualitative researcher is:

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Contructivism

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*Population

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a well-defined set that has certain properties

  • People
  • Animals [BENCH SCIENCE]
  • Objects
  • Events
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*Target population

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The overall group of subjects or events to which the researcher is interested in generalizing conclusions

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*Accessible Population

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The group of people available to the researcher from which to pick a sample

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*Sampling

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a process of selecting a portion or subset of the designated population to represent the entire population

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*Sample

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a subset of sampling units from a population

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*Sampling frame

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a list of all units of the population

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*Element

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the most basic unit about which information is collected

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*Sampling strategies - Probability

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RANDOM SELECTION

each subject has an equal chance of being chosen to be in the sample

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*Sampling strategies - Non-Probability

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NON-RANDOM

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*Probability sampling - Simple random

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-Names out of a hat; table of random numbers
-LEAST bias
=population representativeness maximized

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*Central Limit Theorem

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Given any parent population, not necessarily normal, having mean u and standard deviation o, the sampling distribution for fixed n which is generated from this population will be approximately normally distributed with mean u and standard deviation of (insert equation)

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Need what three assumptions for confidence

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  • Normally distributed
  • Equality of variances
  • Independence of data

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