Study Components
The section of the article which lays the foundation for the study.
What is the Introduction?
Mean, median, mode
What are measures of central tendency?
Designs that include random assignment, a control group, and manipulation of an Independent variable.
What is a true experimental design?
Text books, review articles
What are secondary sources of information?
Level of significance.
What is "p", or what is alpha?
A measurement tool has this quality if it looks like it measures what it intends to measure.
What is face validity?
The section of the paper that provides an overview of the entire article.
What is the Abstract?
Range, standard deviation
What are measures of variability?
Designs that have either randomization or comparison groups but not both?
What are quasi-experimental designs?
Research articles, dissertations, masters' theses
What are primary sources of data?
The researcher and subjects are unaware of group assignment?
What is a double-blind study?
Considers the relationship between a measurement tool and a gold standard.
What is criterion-related validity?
The researcher's hunch about the outcome of a study.
What is the research hypothesis?
A measure of dispersion from the mean.
What is the standard deviation, or what is variance?
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What is a randomized pretest, posttest control group design?
A place to look for systematic reviews of clinically-oriented randomized controlled trials.
What is Cochrane Reviews?
This is another name for the outcome variable.
What is the dependent variable?
Statistical tool that allows for the consideration of three independent variables at the same.
What is a 3-way ANOVA?
This section details the procedures followed by each subject.
What is the Methods?
Nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio
What are levels of measurement?
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What is a repeated measures design? (…or What is a pre-post design.)
Pubmed, CINAHL
What are computerized databases?
Factors other than the independent variable that can influence the dependent variable.
What are confounding variables?
Model of patient-client interaction that guides decision-making about care of individual patients and is associated with high quality care.
What is evidence-based practice?
Part of the paper where the results are compared to related research.
What is the Discussion?
The critical value used to determine the level of significance of test results. (Set at the beginning of the study.)
What is the alpha level?
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What is a quasi-experimental design or pretest/posttest non-equivalent comparison group design?
The facility that stores books, journals, and personnel who can assist in searches
What is the library?
Rejecting the null hypothesis when it's true
What is a Type I error?
Citations indicated with superscript numbers in the text and listed in order of appearance at the end of the article.
What is AMA citation style?