Literature Review Flashcards
A type of empirical study that tends to use focus groups, unstructured interviews, or file/participant observation.
Qualitative Research
A type of empirical study that analyzes archival records (e.g., songs or clinical records)
Content Analysis
Re-analysis of an existing data set with a new/different hypothesis (e.g., data from big government data sets if often used). It is a type of empirical study.
Secondary Analysis
A researcher (Tom) analyzed data from the 2016 National Data set (NDS) - a comprehensive compilation of hospice organizations. What type of article is this?
Secondary Analysis
A type of article you will find in the literature that describes a practice model (e.g., strengths-based).
Practice Model
Analysis of the results from many studies on a topic. It combines the findings of many different studies. It is a type of empirical study.
Meta-analysis
A type of article that defines a problem, summarizes empirical research, identifies strengths, weakness, and gaps in the research, draws conclusions, proposes next steps, and/or makes recommendations for policy.
Literature Review
A type of empirical study that uses a questionnaire that is given to participants on paper, by telephone, in an interview, on-line, etc.
Survey
A type of article that highlights a theory or sustains or refutes a theory.
Example: Dr. Jamie wrote an article describing social learning theory.
Theoretical article
A type of empirical study that has 2 or more groups, a pre & post-test, (and random assignment of groups).
Experiment
Dr. Maria and his GA recruited 100 MBA students to participate in a negotiation study. He randomly assigned students to either the sober group or the inebriated group (he gave the students enough beer per body weight to have a BAC of .03.
Then the students were given a negotiation exercise. He compared how well the sober + inebriated groups did on their negotiation exercise, what is the notation?
R X O
R O
A type or article that evaluates a policy
Policy Analysis
____ is a brief summary of the major parts of a research study (i.e., problem, method, & findings)
Abstract
A study of 1 (e.g,. 1 person, 1 family) over time. It is a type of empirical study.
Single System Design
_____ are reports of original research, typically conducted by the authors’ of the article. Generally contains: intro, methodology, findings, and discussion of results.
Empirical studies
