Literature Reviews
The first step to take to begin writing a literature review
What is integrating information?
The two variables that go into formulating your research question
What are dependent and independent variables?
A formal statement about the predicted outcome of a study
What is a hypothesis?
The five components of the first page of a research article
What are the title, author names/affiliations, abstract, disclosures, and literature review?
Type of research design that involves manipulation or control of one or more factors
What is experimental research?
The second step to take to begin writing a literature review
What is providing an overview of previous research?
The three types of research intent
What are description, relationship, and difference questions?
Something that assumes that there will be NO SIGNIFICANT differences between groups or relationships among variables
What is a null hypothesis (H0)?
The final paragraph or two of the literature review
What is the rationale (for why the authors are conducting their own study)?
The non-experimental research design that involves surveys, polls, case studies, etc.
What are descriptive studies?
The third step to take to begin writing a literature review
What is preparing the reader for purpose statement, study questions, or research hypothesis?
Using previously conducted and published research to answer a clinical question (is part of)
What is evidence based practice?
Something that is also referred to as a research hypothesis and is written in the positive
What is an alternative hypothesis (H1)?
The three parts of the methods section
What are participants, procedures, and design?
The two types of professional organizations in our field
What are ASHA and AAA?
Something that is easily confused as but not the same as a literature review
What is a book report?
Two types of worthwhile questions
What are interest and practical questions?
The two descriptive words of an alternative hypothesis
What are directional and nondirectional?
Something important to include in the section of the written explanations of study findings
What is restating the hypothesis or research questions?
The strength of the relationship among multiple variables and which variables have the strongest predictive power
What is regression?
The four steps of integrating information from each article
What is summarizing, analyzing, demonstrate understanding, and making connections?
PESICO stands for...
What are patient, environment, stakeholders, intervention, comparison, and outcome?
Something highly flexible that explains the intent of the study through descriptive, differences, and relational questions
What is a statement of purpose?
Other subheadings you may find in a research article (name one for credit, all three for extra 100 points)
What are clinical implications, study limitations, and acknowledgements?
A main type of inquiry that is evident in non experimental research
What is systematic inquiry?