General Knowledge
Positivism and interpretivism are both common types of what?
Epistemologies
This committee at a university or organization determines whether research is ethical and allowable.
The Institutional Review Board (IRB)
The most frequent (or popular) attribute, in either grouped or ungrouped data, is the...
Mode
Name 3 approaches to qualitative research.
Name a place/website where you can find, look up and read academic articles.
What is:
•Google Scholar
•ResearchGate
•Library website
•Email the author
•Other good answers?
It is helpful to use theory in research, why (name at least 2 reasons)?
•Gives us a framework
•Suggests questions that have been “proven” to be relevant
•Builds on prior knowledge
•Helps us select relevant data
•Helps us interpret data
•Helps propose explanations of underlying causes or influences of observed phenomena
•More!
National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research was founded on three main ethical principles. What are they?
Respect for persons
Beneficence - do no harm
Justice
Given the following values, the median is: 8, 12, 9, 15, 17, 11, 13, 14, 7
12
Name 3 different types of data collection methods in qualitative research.
Interviews, focus groups, observation, field notes,
What is a literature review?
Relatively complete
but succinct summary of research literature
on the topic.
Conceptual, theoretical, and empirical literature should be included where relevant.
What’s the difference between cross-sectional and longitudinal designs?
Cross-sectional are at one point in time. Longitudinal is at different points in time.
When individuals understand and agree to participate in research, we say that we've obtained what?
Informed Consent
Name three types of longitudinal studies.
Trend
Cohort
Panel
Establishing rigor or trustworthiness in qualitative research involves what (name at least 3)?
prolonged engagement, persistent observation, triangulation, member checking, peer debriefing and support, audit trail, negative case analysis.
Why do we conduct a literature review?
Avoid reinventing the wheel; avoid the mistakes of others; Literature review gives you a prime source for selecting a research question to begin with; You can make decisions about duplicating a previous study, duplicating a study with different methodology, or departing radically from previous work; You can identify valid measurement instruments, alternative conceptions of the problem, and variables
Name the three common approaches (or types) of conducting research.
Quantitative
Qualitative
Mixed Methods
Why might a researcher obtain a certificate of confidentiality?
To protect the privacy of research subjects by prohibiting disclosure of identifiable, sensitive research information to anyone not connected to the research except when the subject consents or in a few other specific situations.
This is a stated prediction of what your research will find.
Hypothesis
The most commonly used analytic procedure in qualitative analysis.
Coding
You will need to read approximately how many abstracts for a paper with 20-25 references?
about 200
Most research falls into one of four different categories. Name those four categories.
Descriptive, exploratory, explanatory, evaluative.
The IRB can conduct three types of reviews. What are they?
◦(1) Exempt Status Determination
◦(2) Expedited Reviews:
◦(3) Full Committee Reviews
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A variable affected by a change is called what?
Dependent variable
Name 3 (out of the 10) types of coding you learned about.
Structural, axial, descriptive, in vivo, theoretical, process or action, emotions, values, versus, evaluation
This part of a paper should be written last.
Introduction (or abstract)