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Sampling
Methods and Design
Ethics
Measurement
Anything Goes
100
The sampling method that provides the most representative sample
What is Probability Sampling
100
A survey is this type of study
What is a Non-experimental Study?
100
A group or committee that approves research protocols
What is An Institutional Review Board
100
Level of measurement where the objects are named or categorized
What is Nominal Level of Measurement
100
Method of data collection that consists of a small group of individuals meeting together and being asked questions by a moderator.
What is a focus group?
200
Assign a number to each member of a population and select the sample through a table of random numbers
What is Simple Random Sampling?
200
Studying the "lived experience" of a phenomenon
What is Phenomenology?
200
The ethical principle that is the basis for informed consent
What is Respect for Persons?
200
The property of a measure that evaluates how consistently the tool measures the concept.
What is Reliability?
200
A description of a study written by the original investigator(s)
What is a primary source?
300
Choosing readily available people or objects for a study
What is Convenience Sampling?
300
The primary difference between experimental and quasi-experimental designs
What is Random Assignment to Groups?
300
A research participant's right to not have his/her name revealed
What is Anonymity?
300
Level of measurement where the distance between data points can be ranked and there IS an absolute zero
What is Ratio Level of Measurement?
300
The highest quality of evidence on which practice changes are based.
What is A Systematic Review?
400
Hand-picking subjects for a study
What is Purposive Sampling?
400
Studying a phenomenon in a cultural context
What is ethnography?
400
Subjects in a study who are identified as in need of additional protection
What are Vulnerable Subjects?
400
Mean, Median, and Mode
What are Measures of Central Tendency?
400
The database you might use to access systematic reviews of health literature
What is the Cochrane Collaboration of Systematic reviews?
500
The available group from which the research sample is drawn
What is the accessible population?
500
The prediction that no difference exists between groups or sets of data
What is the null hypothesis?
500
Another name for the report titled "Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research"
What is The Belmont Report?
500
Maturation, attrition, selection bias, and history
What are threats to internal validity?
500
Specification of how a variable will be measured
What is the Operational Definition or Operationalization?