Conducting Research
A process of steps used to collect and analyze information to increase our understanding of a topic or issue.
What is research?
What should be a primary consideration and at the forefront of the researcher's agenda.
a. research process
b. ethical considerations
c. research design
d. subjects availability
What is ethics
An inquiry approach useful for exploring and understanding a central phenomenon.
What is qualitative research?
Whether one can draw meaningful and useful inferences from scores on the instruments.
a. validity
b. aqueous
c. reliability
d. evidence
What is validity?
Studies that are more descriptive or exploratory and are interested in what already exists
a. nonexperimental research
b. correlational research
c. cross sectional research
d. basic research
What is non-experimental research?
1. research adds to our knowledge 2. research improves practice 3. research informs policy debates
What the these three reasons for?
What are three reasons why research is important?
one of research ethics
What is informed consent?
Open-ended, general questions that a researcher would like answered during this type of study.
What are qualitative research questions?
Refers to whether scores to items are internally consistent.
A. Research
b. reliability
c. variability
d. veracity
What is reliability?
Used by researchers to test activities, practices or procedures to determine whether they influence an outcome or dependent variable
What is an experiment?
All are parts of the research process, except
1.identify subjects
2. Selecting and defining the problem
3. Selecting a research design
4. Collecting data
5. Analyzing data
6. Using the research findings
What is Identify Subjects?
Conducted by U.S. Public Health Service this unethical study ran from 1932 to 1972
a. Haitian Relief studies
b. Helsinki study
c. Tuskegee Study
d. Willowbrook study
What is Tuskegee Syphilis study.
The intentional selection of individuals and sites to learn or understand a central phenomenon.
a. purposeful sampling
b. incidental sampling
c. miscellaneous sampling
d. intentional sampling
What is purposeful sampling?
A random sample
a randomly selected subset of a population
The use of both quantitative and qualitative methods in a single study.
What is mixed-methods or triangulation design?
Based on the nature of the research problem and the questions that will be asked to address the problem, the researcher will choose one of these two research tracks.
What are quantitative and qualitative research?
One of research ethics
confidentiality of information
or any valid answer
observations, interviews and questionnaires, documents, and audiovisual materials are used for what purpose in qualitative research?
What is used to collect data for qualitative research
A declarative statement in quantitative research in which the researcher makes a prediction or conjecture about the outcome of a relationship.
What is a hypothesis?
Examines data collected in the past, usually through review of medical records
a. longitudinal research design
b. prospective research design
c. correlational research design
d. retrospective research design
What is a retrospective research design?
allows cause and effect to be explained
random assignment
These are all key elements of what ethical process
1. Provide potential subjects with sufficient information about study participation
2. Assure them participation is voluntary
3. Simple, understandable language
What are the key elements of informed consent
Data in form of numbers
quantitative data
An inquiry approach useful for describing trends and explaining the relationship among variables.
What is quantitative research?
data in terms of labels or descriptions
categorical data