Sampling and Data Collection
Purposely selects diverse cases on key traits
What is Maximum Variation Sampling
Standards for reporting information for a randomized controlled trial to track participants from recruitment through data analysis
What is CONSORT guidelines
The used of multiple methods to collect and interpret data to converge on an accurate representation of reality
What is triangulation
Statistics used to summarize data
What is descriptive statistics
Seeks to learn from members of a cultural group
What is ethnography
Involves sampling to the point at which no new information is obtained
What is data saturation
the deliberate repetition of research procedures in a second investigation to confirm earlier results
What is Replication
A research design where one strand of data occurs prior to the other
What is Sequential Design
the validity of inferences from observed persons, settings and interventions in the concept that is invented by researchers
What is Construct validity
Research that develops as the study unfolds
What is emergent design
Research which explores diversity of individual common experiences
What is a Phenomenological study
The smallest change that is important or meaningful. Often uses a consensus panel of experts.
What is Minimal important change
an analysis of the relationship between costs and outcomes of health care interventions
What is economic analysis
The most frequently occurring score in a distribution
What is mode
steps in descriptive phenomenology
What is bracketing, analyzing, and describing
A broad question asked in unstructured interviews to gain a general overview of a phenomenon
What is a Grand Tour question
The score value on a measure that would be considered clinically important
What is a Benchmark or threshold
Assesses the effectiveness of a program, policy or procedure
What is Evaluation research
a theoretical distribution that is bell-shaped, symmetrical and not too peaked
What is Normal Distribution
Seeks to discover a main concern or problem
What is grounded theory
Involves discussions with small groups
What are focus groups
Results provide no evidence of the truth or the falsity of the hypothesis. Absense of relationships or equivalence between groups.
What is nonsignificant results
Researchers examine causal effects in a quantitative component but also look at causal mechanisms in a qualitative component
What is Mixed Methods research
Drawing conclusions about a population based on data from a sample
What is inferential statistics
Most likely to be at "center stage" in a case study
What is a small or single entity