Midterm Assignment Study Challenge Flashcards
True or False: Research results help with developing theories
True
True or False: Research generates evidence to support practice
True
How does theory relate to practice?
Theory explains phenomena and it provides a rationale for practice
How does practice relate to theory and reserach?
Practitioners generate questions/puzzles and look to researchers and theorists to help answer/solve them
What is outcomes research?
Outcomes research evaluates the relative impact of interventions, techniques, programs, and services
What is assessment (psychometric) research?
Assessment research determines if the assessment accurately measures a concept, if it correlates with other similar measures, and if it can differentiate between different groups of people.
What is participatory research?
Therapists, researchers, and clients do research together. The client drives or influences the decisions about what to study. Reflects the ideas of partnership and shared responsibility
How do we chose interventions that are evidence based?
We review the best available clinical evidence, consider the expertise of the clinician and the values of the consumer/client
What is clinical reasoning research?
Clinical reasoning research evaluates how OTs think, specifically how they identify and solve problems
What is needs assessment research?
Needs assessment research identifies gaps between what clients want or need and what they actually have. The goal is to improve their situation.
How is theory developed?
Multiple studies are needed. These studies may define and verify concepts, determine relationships between concepts, explain group differences, examine the applicability of the theory and the possibility of change, and see if the theory can help with prediction.
What is process or formative research?
Process research aims to understand not only if an intervention is effective, but why it is. It therefore examines the mechanisms of change.
What are three (3) features of experimental research?
Subjects are randomly selected and assigned to groups
An independent (intervention) variable is manipulated by the researcher to determine its impact a dependent (outcome) variable is tested
There is a control or comparison group
Survey or questionnaire research can be (select any that are correct)
____Quantitative
____Qualitative
____Mixed Methodology
Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methodology
What might impact the impact of an independent variable?
Confounding or extraneous variable
There are three major ways in which to define and classify research?
The methodological approach, the research design, and the purpose of the research
What general category of research do narrative inquiry, ethnography, and phenomenology fall into?
Qualitative research
What kind of study is an examination of subjective perspectives of graduate students in an occupational therapy program?
Phenomenological (qualitative
How is a quasi-experimental study different from an experimental one?
Random assignment pf subjects to groups is not required in a quasi-experimental study
What type of psychometric testing examines how well a pediatric assessment covers important indicators of motor development?
Construct validity
What is inter-rater reliability?
The extent to which test results obtained by more than one rater agree with each other