Research Methods
The process of using evaluation and/or research to improve something or add to body of knowledge
What is Systematic Inquiry
How many standards are there in the ATRA Standards of Practice
What is 12
What is the purpose of evaluation
What is: (any of the following)
To make decisions or to postpone decisions
●To improve services/programs
●To show value of services
●Determine accountability
●To assess/establish a baseline
●To comply with external standards
●Assess if reached goals or not
●Funding, Program/Staff Justification or Elimination
●Public Relations
Observations should be used as a form of assessments when the evaluator/research is interested in:
What is person's actual behavior
evaluation while a program is happening
What is formative evaluation
The various ways you can collect data
The three parts of each standard
What is structure, criteria, process
A representation of a total population is called
What is Sample
a measurement characteristic, and asks, "does the measurement tool being used measure what it is supposed too?"
What is Validity
Confidentiality, Privacy, Coercion are examples of what in designing a research project
What is Ethical Issues
data that can be measured along a continuum
What is continuous data
The purpose of ATRA Standards of Practice
Provides a guide to achieve QUALITY outcomes valued by the patients/clients and other stakeholders
Is a BENCHMARK of a profession and has an ethical and legal basis
Guides and directs professional practice- assures quality consistency or practice
Protects consumer from potential harm
Invite people to DESCRIBE experiences in their own words
Used to describe what happens
Will show responses in the actual words of the individuals
Concerned at discovering new phenomenon or developing theory
Data collection emerges
What is qualitative data
a measurement characteristic, and asks, "how stable is the assessment over time?"
What is Reliability
In an experimental design, the variable being tested
What is the DEPENDENT variable
Explain when you should NOT evaluate something.
you don't intend to make changes; You don't have power to make changes;
Defines and measures the parameters of practice (ex- facilities and resources)
What is Structure Criteria
Measures something
Easiest to measure results of intervention/program
Converts words to numbers
Typically follows standard procedures of rigor related to instruments used
Provides set answers for individuals to choose from (yes/no, likert scale, etc.)
What is Quantitative Data
Inter-rater reliability is calculated for which type of assessment?
What is observation
Who, What, When, Where, Why, How,
What are questions you should ask when planning a project.
A critical step in data analysis where you organize the variables used in a measurement instrument to collect data (i.e. questionnaire, survey, etc).
What is coding data
Defines and measures achievement or change in patient’s/client’s condition (Ex: improved functional level, health, etc.)
What is the Outcome Criteria
is a formal protocol that has specific rules that must be followed. Documents patterns of behavior during specified period of time.
What is a behavioral observation
Systematic procedures for observing behavior or measuring attitudes that offer a limited range of answers, usually related to some kind of numbering system (Burlingame & Blaschko, 2010, p. 14)
Have an established procedure for selecting who is assessed, how it is given, how it is scored & interpreted
Has been tested for reliability/validity
What is a Standardized Test/Assessment
Inputs, Activities, People Involvement, Reactions, KASA Outcomes, Practice Change, End Results
What is the 7 levels of program results