Week 5 Flashcards
Why do we care whether a
study is done well?
b/c Need to know if it is true b/c we make every day decisions based on reaserch.
Steps of interpreting Quantitative results Step 1.
Credibility
Assess whether the results are right
Requires careful analysis of the study’s methods (correct
a) Proxies and Interpretations
b) Validity (construct, internal, external)
c) Bias – are inevitable, but it is important to detect and
understand them.
d) Corroboration – the ability to replicate the study
Step 2 interpreting Quantitative results
Precision of Results
Statistical analysis
Step 3. interpreting Quantitative results
Magnitude of Effects and Importance
Clinical significance
Clinical significance
Have big enough effects to be worthwhile
Do more good than harm
Cost-effective
Step 4 interpreting Quantitative results
Correlation does not equal causation
How are V connected
STEP 5interpreting Quantitative results
Generalizability
* Applicable to other groups,
environments, conditions
STEP 6 Interpreting Quantitative results
Implications
* The benefits of the study results
on users and society
Trustworthiness and Integrity in Qualitative research establishing 4 criteria:
1) Credibility
2) Dependability
3) Confirmability
4) Transferability
Credibility
Prolonged engagement
Verbatim transcripts
Member checking
Triangulation
peer debrifing
Dependability
Are the results dependable? Could other researchers
replicate the study and get the same results.
* Audit trail= detailed diary of study
Confirmability
Reflexivity
= findings based on the participants not bias/personal motivations
Transferability
can these
findings be applicable in other
contexts
Rich, thick description
Authenticity
When the report conveys the feeling tone of participants’
Heightened sensitivity to the issues being depicted
Sense of the mood, experience, language, and context of the lives
