Law and Ethics
What is an IRB?
Institutional Review Board
What is a Level 1 study on the hierarchy of quantitative evidence?
Systematic review or meta-analysis
What does qualitative research aim to discover?
Aims to study social/psychosocial phenomena
What is a nominal scale or an example?
Attaching a code to a criterion
Classificatory scale
What is bigger? a sample or population?
population
If you are studying a vulnerable population, what level of review would IRB consider your study?
Full board review
What is the gold standard for quantitative research?
Randomized control Trials
What are the four types of qualitative research we discussed in class?
•Participatory Action Research (PAR)
•Ethnography
•Grounded Theory
•Phenomenology
What is a p value or what is it typically set at?
the p-value is used as a cutoff point to determine the extent to which a conclusion about a sample reflects a true difference within the larger population.
typically set at .05 or .01
What is convenience sampling?
What are the three components of the Common Law in the Belmont Report?
Respect for persons
Beneficence
Justice
Name one of the Time Series Designs
•One-Group Pretest-Posttest Design
•Repeated Measures Design
•Interrupted Time Series Design
What is triangulation?
Triangulation is a process to enhance trustworthiness in qualitative data. Triangulation of data gatherers means that two people independently take observations and notes of a phenomena and we would see how they compare to one another – if they are seeing the same thing. The same process can be done with data analysis – having two or more researchers analyze to see if the same consensus is reached – this is also known as peer debriefing.
What is a null hypothesis?
The commonly accepted fact. Researchers work to nullify it.
What is simple random sampling?
All individuals in the defined target population have an equal/independent chance of being selected
What is informed consent?
•Involves the individual’s ability to agree to participate with research study and understanding what the implications of the study may be.
•Two parts:
•Information
•Consent
What is the independent variable in a time series design?
Time!
What are the four types of ways to enhance trustworthiness?
Credibility, dependability, confirmability, transferability
What is a research design you can use a two way ANOVA?
Systematic errors occur due to...
Flaws in the sampling procedures
What did the 1974 National Research Act state?
•1974 National Research Act helped to ensure ethics in research by establishing the need for a review by an Institutional Review board before conducting research.
If you are researching the effects of three different interventions, likely what type of design are you using?
Trustworthiness is to qualitative research
as _________ are to quantitative research....
validity & reliability
What is the best test to use for a randomized control trial?
Independent T test
Why do we want to ensure our sample is reflective of the population?
To be able to generalize findings.