Sampling
A group from which a sample is selected
What is target population?
Defining terms that are used in the study that a reader may not know.
What are operational definitions?
The Gold Standard.
What is an RCT?
The number of clients in a case series report
What is more than one?
Any tendency which prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question
What is bias?
Selecting a sample from the population so all in the population have an equal chance of being selected.
What is random sampling?
The part of the process that drives the study
What is the RQ?
What types of research designs are even better than RCTs?
What are systematic reviews and meta-analyses?
Name at least two advantages of small scale quantitative designs.
What are:
•Practitioner oriented
•Assessment & outcome info
•Monitoring & evaluating practice
•Source of empirical hypotheses•Challenge clinical theories
•Document benefits of intervention
•Advancement of the field
•Flexible design
•Holistic
•Inductive processes
•Context-bound
•Emerging interpretations
•Qualitative information
•Seeks patterns
What is constructivism?
A list or record of the the people the particpants are drawn from.
What is sampling frame?
IDs the key variables (quantitative) or the central phenomenon.
What is statement of purpose?
The factor that may influence the outcome and can be controlled, selected and manipulated.
What is the Indep variable.
Practice, learning and carryover effects are disadvantages of this study design.
What is within group study design
•Fixed design
•Discrete, specific concepts
•Deductive processes
•Control over context
•Verification of hunches
Quantitative information
What is positivism?
This type of bias involves sampling an insufficient amount of obs from a portion of the population
What is undercoverage bias?
These are predictions about relationships among variables
What is the hypothesis?
The name of a study if participants cannot be randomly assigned.
What is quasi experimental?
Two disadvantages of small scale quantitative designs.
What are:
•Difficulty with generalization
•Requires careful statistical analysis
The three types of central tendency measures
What are mean, median, and mode
This type of non-probability sampling method is done by word of mouth, where participants recruit other participants to join.
What is snowball?
1.IDs research problem
2.Clarify importance of RP
3.Gaps in knowledge base?
4.IDs theory
What is the lit review?
The difference between longitudinal and cross sectional studies.
What is:
Cross sec: interview a new sample each time they are conducted
Long: follow the same sample of people over time?
Studies with clear target behaviors where n = 1
What are single subject studies?
Probability that the null hypothesis is true
What is p > .05