The Beginning of the End
Designs of the Times
Vote for PEDro
Validity/Reliability
COSTCO free samples
100

Name the four levels of measurement in order from broad to specific

What is nominal, ordinal, interval, & ratio?

100

This design lacks randomization, a control group or both

What is quasi-experimental design?

100

Step of the PEDro scale that is not counted in the total

What is eligibility criteria?

100

The 3 C's of validity

What is content, construct and criterion-related validity?

100
Type of sampling that has multiple layers and stages: start with county, then city blocks, then households, then individuals.

What is cluster sampling?

200

The 3 pillars of Evidence-Based Practice

What is best available evidence, clinical expertise and patient values and preferences?
200

T/F: An A-B design is more valid than an A-B-A-B design

What is false?

200

The three types of blinding that are graded by PEDro

What are subjects, therapists, and raters?

200
The difference between external and internal validity.

What is external is generalizability to a larger population and internal is within the study?

200

Type of sampling with no element of probability and you stop when you reach a certain number

What is quota sampling?

300

The highest level of the ways of knowing

What is Scientific Method?

300

The 3 key components of a TRUE experiment

What is 1. an IV manipulated by the researcher, 2. a control group, 3. random assignment?

300

T/F an article would receive the point for Key Outcomes measured if the amount of subjects who finished were at 86%

What is True?

300

Type of validity where you are evaluating whether or not an instrument looks like it tests what it is meant to test

What is face validity?
300

Type of sampling where you would only select every 10th after jumbling all subjects

What is systematic sampling?

400

An IV that is an attribute can be manipulated (T/F)

What is false?
400

What are the effects of a repeated measure

What is practice, carryover, and order?

400
The point you would get if you reflected the statistics on how subjects were assigned in the beginning of the experiment

What is intention to treat analysis?

400

Define systematic error

What is underestimating or overestimating values (but only in one direction)?
400
Type of sampling that is used more in descriptive research rather than RCT an example is snowball sampling

What is purposive sampling?

500

The 5 steps in the EBP process

1. Ask, 2. Acquire, 3. Appraise, 4. Apply, 5. Assess

500

These designs are characterized by groups that are not formed by randomization, often consisting of existing groups or self-selected participants

What are nonequivalent group designs?

500

You would look for this in a table to give the point for "Point Measure"

What is mean, median, mode?

500
Name three sources of error
What is rater, instrument and variability of observation?
500

Define sampling error

Randomly misrepresent population

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