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Modules 4-6 Vocabulary Flashcards

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Completely Unstructured Interviews

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starts with broad question, getting subsequently narrower, and focused by initial answer

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Focused Interviews

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number of topics

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Focus Group Interviews

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more than one participant, conversation guided by interviewer

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Life Histories

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narrative self-disclosures about life’s experiences

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Critical Incident Technique

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gathers data about behaviours by studying specific incidents

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Question Form

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researcher knows what they need to know, focused questions, using interview schedule or questionnaire, subject must respond in their own words

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Likert Scale

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most common scaling technique, instruments are declarative statements that express a viewpoint

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Vignettes

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short stories or descriptions of situations, participants explain how they would respond to the situation

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Situational Contaminants

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awareness of an observers presence may affect their behaviour

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Response-Set Biases

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characteristics of the respondents can interfere with the accurate measures of the target attributes

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Transitory Personal Factors

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fatigue, hunger, anxiety, mood

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Administration Variations

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using different methods of data collection from one person to another affecting obtained scores

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Reliability

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accuracy and consistency of a measuring instrument

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Stability

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instrument’s ability to give consistent results

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Test-Restest

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test is administered twice and results are compared, higher means the scores are closer together

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Reliability Coefficient

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reliability with values usually between 0 and 1 (0.8> higher reliability)

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Internal Consistency

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extent to which all items on an instrument measure the same critical attribute or variable

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Equivalence

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degree to which two or more observers using a single instrument obtain the same result

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Interrelater or Inter-Observer Reliability

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present when to or more independent raters or observers agree about the results

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Validity

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extent to which the instrument measures what it was intended to measure

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Face Validity

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whether the instrument looks like it is measuring the target construct

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Content Validity

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extent to which an instrument adequately covers the factors or situations under study

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Criterion-Related Validity

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extent to which a subject’s performance and the subject’s actual behaviour are related

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Construct Validity

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extent to which the test measures a theoretical concept

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Credibility
believability or truthfulness of findings
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Prolonged Engagement and Persistent Observation
invest sufficient time to gain an in-depth understanding of the phenomena
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Triangulation
multiple methods to distinguish true information from information with errors
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Peer Debriefing
receive feedback about data quality and interpretation
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Member Checks
feedback from study participants on the data and the researcher's emerging findings and interpretations
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Searching for Disconfirming Evidence
purposive sampling, facilitative through prolonged engagement and peer debriefing
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Researcher Credibility
training, qualifications, experience are important factors in establishing confidence in the data
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Nominal Level of Measurement
- lowest level - labelling or categorizing variables based on characteristics - numbers do not have a quantitative meaning
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Ordinal Level of Measurement
- numeric ranking of subjects according to a specific attribute - numbers do not have a precise quantitative meaning
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Interval Level of Measurement
- ranking events or variables on a scale in which the intervals between the numbers are equal - zero value is arbitrary - addition and subtraction can be used - mean and standard deviation can be calculated
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Ratio Level of Measurement
- highest form of measurement - equal intervals between numbers - true zero - means and standard deviation is suitable - variables are considered continuous
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Inferential Statistics
- draw conclusions about the population in the bases of data obtained from the sample - purpose is to estimate the probability that the sample accurately reflects the population and to test hypotheses about the population - used when the sample is randomly selected and the measurement scale is at the interval or ratio level
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Descriptive Statistics
describe and synthesize data
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Measures of Central Tendency
individual value that is most representative of that distribution or set of scores
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Measures of Variability
describe the dispersion or the spread of data
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Mean
sum of a set of scores divided by the number of scores
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Median
middle score
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Mode
score that occurs most frequently
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Range
difference between the highest and lowest scores
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Percentile
assigns the score to a specific place within the distribution
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Standard Deviation
average amount that each of the individual scores varies from the mean and the set of scores
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Type I Error
researcher states that a relationship exists when it doesn't
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Type II Error
researcher states that a relationship does not exist when it does
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Statistical Significance
chance that sample results are not due to chance
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Parameter
occurrence of a variable in the total population
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Statistic
occurrence in a smaller sample
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Parametric Test
sample statistic to estimate the population parameter requiring measurements on at least an interval scale
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Non-Parametric Test
not based on population parameters, involve less restrictive assumptions about the shape of the distribution
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Coding Scheme
method for organizing qualitative data, classifying and indexing data to identify underlying concepts
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Coding Scheme
method for organizing qualitative data, classifying and indexing data to identify underlying concepts
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Open Coding
trying to capture what is going on in the data
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Selective Coding
codes only those variables that are related to the core variable
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Theoretical Coding
putting the broken pieces of data back together again
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Substative Coding
open and selective coding
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Descriptive Phenomenology
seek common patterns by identifying essential themes
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Holistic Approach
viewing the text as a whole
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Detailed Approach
analyzing every sentence
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Constant Comparative Method
simultaneous collection, coding, and analyzing of data
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Constant Comparative Method
simultaneous collection, coding, and analyzing of data
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Substantive and Theoretical Dimensions
- significance of problem - relevance of research - congruence between study question and methods
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Methodological Dimensions
rigour of the methods used and the extent to which they yield believable evidence
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Ethical Dimensions
- evidence that the rights of human subject's were violated | - impact of any ethical problems
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Interpretive Dimensions
- discussion has all important results - interpretations are consistent with results - limitations identified - conclusions and recommendations are included
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Presentation and Stylistic Dimensions
- clear, grammatical, concise, organized | - alert to overt bias
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Research Utilization
use of findings from studies in a practical application that is unrelated to the original research, and translate knowledge into the practice setting to benefit society at large
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Evidence Based Practice
clinical decisions are based on the best possible evidence, broader concept

NURS 341 Vocabulary (2 decks)

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