It's All Quantitative
Information gathered
What is data or numerical values?
Information gathered
What are narrative descriptions?
The researcher is independent from those being researched
What is a positivist paradigm?
Means that participants have adequate information about the study, comprehend the information, and have the power of free choice, enabling them to consent or decline participation voluntarily.
What is informed consent?
The grand narratives or interpretive translations produced from the integration or comparison of findings from qualitative studies.
What is meta-synthesis?
Reasoning process that moves from the general to the specific
What is deductive reasoning?
Reasoning process that moves from the specific to the general
What is inductive reasoning?
Subjectivity and values are inevitable and desirable.
What is a constructivist paradigm?
The most secure means of protecting confidentiality, occurs when the researcher cannot link participants to their data.
What is anonymity?
A technique for quantitatively integrating the results of multiple studies addressing the same or highly similar research question.
What is meta-analysis?
The connections between concepts
What is cause and effect?
The connections between concepts
What are patterns of association?
Values and biases are to be held in check; objectivity is sought.
What is a positivist paradigm?
When anonymity is not possible, information will not be reported publicly in a manner that identifies the participants
What is confidentiality?
The selection of participants through referrals from earlier participants.
What is snowball sampling?
That which is being investigated
What are concepts, constructs, or variables?
That which is being investigated
What are phenomena or concepts?
Deductive processes are used; hypothesis testing; focus is on the objective and quantifiable
What is the positivist paradigm?
Children, mentally disabled people, severely ill people, the terminally ill, institutionalized people, and pregnant women
Who are vulnerable groups?
The collection of qualitative data to the point where a sense of closure is attained because new data yield redundant information.
What is saturation?
Uses this type of math to interpret data
What is statistics?
The three main types of qualitative studies we spoke of this semester.
What is Ethnography, phenomenology, and grounded theory?
Inductive processes are used; the researcher interacts with those being researched; hypotheses generation; focus on the subjective and non quantifiable
What is the constructivist paradigm?
Formal committees that review research plans
What is an Institutional Review Board?
Systematic inquiry designed to develop knowledge about issues of importance to the nursing profession.
What is nursing research?