Test - Research Design

Question 1

Sources of credible scientific literature

Answer 1

Journal articles, text books, credible websites, academic journals, peer-reviewed articles

Question 2

Qualitative Research Design

Answer 2

Focuses on descibing, understanding, and attaching meaning to a persons perceptions about their own world.

Question 3

True or false: Is qualitative research subjective?

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Forms of data collection in qualitative research

Answer 4

Interviews, observations, surveys or questionnaires, oral history

Question 5

Issues with qualitative research design

Answer 5

response rates, reliability of responses, Hawthorne effect, interpretation

Question 6

What is the hawthorne effect?

Answer 6

where a person changes behavior when being studied

Question 7

Quantitative Research Design

Answer 7

Collect data which involves counting of ‘things’
Use to find patterns and averages, make predictions, and test predictions.
Statistics

Question 8

True or false: quantitative research is subjective

Answer 8

false, its objective

Question 9

What are the two types of quantitative research design?

Answer 9

Descriptive (observational) and experimental

Question 10

Descriptive research design

Answer 10

Describes a study or topic.
Defines characteristics of the variable under research
Gives answers to questions

Question 11

Experimental research design

Answer 11

is a scientific approach to testing a theory or hypothesis using experimental groups or control variables

Question 12

Types of descriptive research design

Answer 12

Cross-sectional studies, case-control studies, cohort studies

Question 13

Cross-sectional studies

Answer 13

Involves looking at data from different individuals at one specific point in time

Question 14

Case-control studies

Answer 14

A study that compares two groups of people, now with disease and a group without disease

Question 15

Cohort studies

Answer 15

Study which follows research participants over a period of time - data used to understand human health, environmental, and social factors that influence it

Question 15

Cohort studies

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Study which follows research participants over a period of time - data used to understand human health, environmental, and social factors that influence it

Question 16

Retrospective

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Past

Question 17

Prospective

Answer 17

future

Question 18

Tpes of experimental research design

Answer 18

time-series, cross-over studies, randomized control studies (RCT)

Question 19

Time-series Studies

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Is a specific way of analyzing a sequence of data points collected over an interval of time - e.g. trends/fluctuations over time

Question 20

Cross-over studies

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a study in which participants do not receive one but multiple exposures - the effects are measured

Question 21

Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)

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Is a trial in which subjects are randomly assigned groups - 1 group = control, the other = experimental group. e.g. clinical trials

Question 22

Bias

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Systemic error that is introduced into sampling or testing by encouraging one outcome over others

Question 23

Methods to minimized bias

Answer 23

sample selection - randomized sampling, participant compliance, blinding, control group, control for confounding factors, investigator or instrument error