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Questions
1. In what section of a research report would you find a summary of the statistical analyses?
2. If you ask "How rigorous is the evidence about whether the results are correct" you are asking about what?
a. magnitude
b. generalizability
c. precision
d. credibility/accuracy of results
3. Define the following:
a. magnitude
b. generalizability
c. precision
d. credibility/accuracy of results
4. What is the main purpose of a Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) diagram?
5. Rigorous study methods are designed to eliminate what?
6. What type of tool is used to understand precision of a study?
7. What does it mean when a result is nonsignificant?
8. What is the widely used index of clinical significance at the group level?
9. What is used as an index in evaluating clinical significance at the individual level?
10. What is used as an index in evaluating clinical significance at the individual level?
11. How is the traditional approach to establishing minimal important change (MIC) determined?
12. Why do readers of research need to have an interpretive mindset?
13. Define the term validity.
14. Differentiate between the following types of validity:
a. Statistical conclusion validity
b. Internal validity
c. External validity
d. Construct validity
The following questions are all true/false. Each is worth
15. One of the features of qualitative analysis is that there are universally accepted formal rules that facilitate the process.
16. Data analysis in qualitative studies cannot begin until data saturation has been achieved.
17. Like quantitative analysts, qualitative analysts often search for relationships and patterns within the data.
18. When CAQDAS is used, the software creates the category scheme and codes the data.
19. Metaphors are especially likely to be used in ethnographic research.
20. A widely used method of data management in a qualitative data set involves coding the data.
21. The first major step that a nurse researcher typically undertakes in a qualitative analysis is developing a system for organizing and indexing the data.
22. CAQDAS is a computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software.
23. The term domain is used for units of cultural knowledge in an ethnographic analysis.
24. Descriptive phenomenology most fundamentally involves a search for intersubjective agreement among judges.
25. Researchers utilize deductive reasoning when analyzing qualitative data.
26. A hermeneutic circle involves movement between parts and whole of a text being analyzed.
27. Grounded theory analysis begins with "open coding".
28. Ethnographic analysis may involve the development of a taxonomy.