Key Terms - Test 2 Flashcards
Textual (written and spoken) and visual data
Aim to provide insights, enhance understanding of a phenomenon
Requires interpretation - so we have to interpret the data
Qualitative data
Anything that can be measured, counted in numerical form
Goal is precise, “objective” measurable data that can be analyzed with statistical procedures
Quantitative data
Aim to understand or explore a phenomena, groups or experiences
Context is everything (not generalization!)
Exploratory, descriptive, interpretative
Range of data (photographs, documents, journal entries, videos, interviews, open-ended survey questions)
Qualitative Research
Test theories or hypotheses
Seeks explanation, correlation, causation
Structures, controlled research design, clearly specified hypothesis, data and procedures to obtain data
Generalizability: requires representative sample
Goal is prediction, generalizability and causality
Quantitative Research
In-depth interviews
Focus groups
Participatory action research
Ethnography
Arts-based methods
Document analysis
Qualitative
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Randomized control trials
Cohort studies
Case-control studies
Surveys
Quantitative
foundational assumptions about knowledge and knowledge production
Positivism & constructivism
Epistemology
seeks to uncover universal truths about an objective world
observable evidence as the only form of defensible scientific findings
Positivism
knowledge as socially embedded and constructed through interactions
posits that knowledge is not passively received but actively constructed by individuals through their experiences and interactions
Constructivism
To see what the experience would actually look like, and what the students look like to get an idea of where the issues actually are
To see trends, or what is a common issue among both campuses
Researcher come in and spending enough time that they can have a perspective
Ethnography
Comparison between years
Are they experiencing the same issues
Commonalities between issues between different years
Focus group
“The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states and events in specified populations, and the application of this study to the control of health problems” (Last, 1995)
Epidemiology
describes a health outcome or determinant in terms of person, place and time.
Descriptive epidemiology
finds out ‘causes’ or determinants
Analytical Epidemiology
_______________ research:
Descriptive studies
Analytic studies
Epidemiologic
Generate hypotheses
Answer what, who, where and when
How common is x?
Epidemiologic research:
Descriptive studies
Test hypotheses
Answer the why and how
What is the relationship between x and y?
Epidemiologic research:
Analytic studies
Measuring health and disease
Two basic measures of disease occurrence in populations:
Prevalence
Incidence
the proportion of people who possess a certain attribute at a certain point in time, or within a specific time period
Prevalence
rate at which new events occur in a population in a defined time period
Key concept is a change in status (e.g. health to sick), over a period of time
Incidence
Who what where when
Descriptive Epidemiology
Looks more at the why
Look for association between a health outcome (dependent variable) and possible risk or causative factors (exposures)
Analytic studies
disease or health state you are trying to investigate
Dependent Variable (outcome)
the risk or protective factor you are trying to assess against the outcome
Independent variable (exposure)