Qualitative
What is the difference between subjective and objective reality?
Subjectivy reality is one person's perspective, and objective reality is shared by everyone.
What is the difference between correlation and causation?
Correlation is a description of a relationship between variables, whereas causation is an cause and effect explanation.
Define critical thinking, and provide an example.
Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.
What do clinical analysts do, and how much do they make?
Clinical analysts work to regulate and improve clinical practices and standards within a particular field or organization. Average PA salary: $87,675
Which Doctoral Dissertation course do you need to be enrolled in when you start writing (as opposed to outlining) your program?
Doctoral Dissertation II.
What is a shared lived experience?
Personal knowledge about the world gained through direct, first-hand involvement in everyday events rather than through representations constructed by other people.
What is the difference between an independent and dependent variable?
Independent variable is what you are manipulating/comparing and a dependent variable is what you are measuring.
What is the difference between a ciritcal analysis of the literature and a literature review?
Literature reviews are unbiased and discriptive. Critial analysis of the literature examines the "worth" (i.e., strengths and limitations) of each method, theory, finding or idea being reviewed.
Can a clinical application be developed based on the experience(s) of one person/client, why or why not?
It may be difficult to generalize the needs of one individual to others.
Name 3 types of survey questions.
Yes' or 'no' questions.
Open-ended questions.
Likert scale questions.
Give an example of when you would use inductive coding and when you would use deductive coding.
Inductive coding is used when you don't have a specific theme in mind.
Deductive coding is used when you already have idea of what you may find.
What is one difference between an experimental and a quasi experimental study design?
Random group assignment is not possible in a quasi experimental study degin.
What is the difference between synthesizing and analyzing in critical writing?
Analysizing is about breaking something apart and looking at the pieces individually, synthesis is about putting ideas and information together to see an overall pattern how things come together.
What is the purpose of including a vignette in your paper?
To present a hypothetical situation that simulates how the clinical application may be useful.
How many questions should a screener have?
About 10ish.
Name 4 types of qualitative research designs.
What are:
phenomenological
ethnographic
narrative
case study
A study with a large effect size is also statistically significant, right?
Nope.
Can a critical analysis be used to prove a theory?
A critical analysis is used to judge the quality of evidence for a theory and to determine if this evidence supports or does not support a theory, but it cannot actually prove or disprove a theory.
What is the difference between clinical research and evidence-based practice?
Clinical research applies a methodology (quantitative or qualitative) to develop new knowledge. EBP seeks and applies the best clinical evidence, often from research, toward making patient-care decisions. Combined they can help to introduce useful clinical applications.
What is one way that you can ensure your program will be of use to the most people?
Make sure it generalizes well from a sample to the population (test on random people from the population).
What is the difference between a meta - synthesis and a meta - analysis?
A meta - synthesis is qualiaitve and a meta - analysis is quantiative. Both are meta, looking for a single thread the summarize researcher over 10 or more years.
What are 3 ways to improve that statistical power of a study?
Increase significance level (from .05 to .10)
Increase sample size.
Look for a large effect.
Ensure valid measures.
Is empathy a critical thinking skill?
Yes, it can be developed.
How can you establish the validity of a clinical application?
Have your vignette reviewed by content matter experts.
What are 3 kinds of statistical analyses that can be used to evaluate survey data?
Factor Analysis, Multiple Regression, Chi - Square