NURS 405 (Chapter 14, 13 & 15)

Strategies to establish CREDIBILITY of qualitative research include (select all that apply).

A qualitative credibility strategy involving analysis of cases that do not fit patterns or categories.

Subjects are selected based on exposure to a determinant.

Choose the correct statements about measures of variability in research data

A nurse is concerned with recent adoption of clinical practice guidelines for conscious sedation. Which tool can help?

Qualitative data analysis uses _____ to explain phenomena.

A qualitative credibility strategy involving using a journal to record thoughts, ideas & decisions during data gathering

The aim of this type of evidence is to provide comprehensive understanding of topic. A type of literature review.

This type of evidence generates new statistics and effect size from multiple studies.

Choose the correct statement/s regarding inferential stats in quantitative research

A qualitative credibility strategy that occurs when repetition of information is consistently heard.

In terms of inferential stat significance level, .01 is deemed

Researchers begin with a group of people who have the disease and compare to those who do not have the disease.

Assignments of labels to each line of transcript in qualitative analysis.

The strongest inferences can be made with ratio & ordinal data and probability sampling.

In qualitative studies, which criteria helps to establish trustworthiness. (Choose all that apply)

A researcher attributes a change in the DV from the IV, when in fact the change occured from extraneous variables.

The grouping of qualitative data into categories that seem logical.

Experimental studies involves large samples and conducted at multiple sites.

Knowledge & skill of qualitative researcher is important because there is no exact science/way in coding of data.

This inferential stat estimates the degree of a characteristic that will likely occur in a population.

Choose the incorrect statement regarding descriptive and inferential statistics in quantitative research

In descriptive stats, these are measures of variability