Definitions
Research
What is the diligent, systematic inquiry or study that validates and refines existing knowledge and develops new knowledge, to search for anything?
Name the types of research methods for quantitative research.
What is: descriptive, correlational, quasi-experimental, and experimental
Name the types of qualitative research methods
What is phenomenological, grounded theory, ethnographic, and exploratory-descriptive
What type of research utilizes interventions but has limited control?
What is quasi-experimental research?
Provide two examples of informal acquisition?
Limitations
What are restrictions in a study that may decrease the credibility and generalizability of the findings?
Differentiate the interventional and noninterventional quantitative studies.
Interventional: quasi-experimental and experimental
Noninterventional: descriptive and correlational
What is the most important thing for a qualitative research study.
Hint: involves people
What are research-participant relationships?
What does correlational research measure?
What is: it determines the type and strength of the relationship?
*It does NOT measure cause and effect.
What is the difference between basic and applied research.
Applied research attempts to solve real problems in clinical practice, concerns the effects that interventions may have on patients, applies findings in the real world to real patients, tests theory and validates its usefulness in practice, and serves as a basis for making policy changes. What is basic research is for the sake of research; to find out the truth; investigating “what is”; findings not directly useful to practice; also known as Bench Research
Extraneous variables
What is a variable that can occur in all research studies and may interfere with the stated relationships between variables? Influence can be decreased through sample selection and the use of defined research settings
Rank the types of quantitative research designs in order from least to most control.
correlational
quasi-experimental
Most control: experimental
What is interviewing a small amount of people who then recommend more people who have experienced a similar experience?
What is descriptive research?
The more specific the better?
If a tool measures how many tears an average student cries after an exam, but in the study measures how many energy drinks a student has on a weekly average, what should be questioned?
What is the validity that should be questioned?
Theory
What is an integrated set of defined concepts, relational statements, and assumptions that present a view of a phenomenon and can be used to describe, explain, predict, or control phenomena>
What are some potential causes of bias in quantitative designs?
Name 4:
(100 points per cause)
Researchers, components of the environment, setting, individual subjects and or sample, how groups were formed, measurement tools, data collection process, data and duration of study (maturation), statistical tests and analysis, interpretation
What are some of the possible ways to collect data in qualitative research?
What are interviews, texts, documents, media, and observations.
What study focuses on reality, symbolic meaning, and social constructivism, and deals with social interactions?
What is grounded theory philosophy?
What is the highest level of research that allows for quality, safe, and economic nursing practice?
Hint: think of the pyramid
What is a systematic review and meta-analysis?
Framework
What is the abstract, theoretical basis of the relationships between the variables of a study? The relational statements/propositions are tested through research.
What is the philosophical origin of quantitative research?
What is logical positivism?
*Means that knowledge is developed on strict rules of logic, truth, and laws!
What are the two ethnographic viewpoints, and describe the difference between them?
What is the etic and emic approach?
Etic: study from outside the culture
Emic: study from within the culture
Which study has the purpose to describe and capture the "lived experience" of study participants?
What is phenomenology?
What is the difference between a meta-analysis and a meta-synthesis?
A meta-synthesis is the synthesis and interpretation of qualitative studies, and a meta-analysis is the statistical analysis of quantitative studies related to a particular problem.