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| Define a research problem? |
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| A research problem is a perplexing or troubling issue. |
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| What is a problem statement? |
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| It articulates the problem and use for a study |
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| what is a statement of purpose, or purpose statement? |
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| A researchers summary of the overall goal |
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| define research question? |
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| Specific query researchers want to answer |
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| what is the purpose of a research question in a quantitative study? |
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| to pose quereies about relationships among variables. |
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| when is the only time you use a null hypothesis? |
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| problem statement, what is problem identification? |
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| Telling what is wrong with the current situation. |
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| Problem statement, what is background? |
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| what is the nature of the problem or context |
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| problem statment, what is the scope of the problem? |
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| how big of a problem is it |
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| problem statment, what is 'consequences of the problem? |
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| what is the cost of not fixing it |
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| problem statment, what is 'knowledge gap'? |
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| what information is missing |
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| problem statment, what is proposed solution? |
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| What is the main problem with a problem statment? |
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| rarely explicit, must be found, will be stated if lit review is its own section |
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| What 3 things does a problem statment identify in a quantitative study? |
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| key study variables and possible relationships, and population |
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| What 3 things does a problem statment identify in a qualitative study? |
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| nature of the inquiry, key phenomenon, group/community/setting of problem |
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| What type of study uses these words (processes, social stuructures, social interactions)? |
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| what type of study uses these words (experience, lived experience, meaning, essence)? |
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| What type of studies uses these words (culture, roles, lifeways, cultural behaviors)? |
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| What is the main advantage of thinking in terms of variables? |
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| researches consciously make choices about how to operationalize the variables. |
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| What MUST there always be in a research question? |
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| a designated comparison with the independent variable operationally defined. |
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| a predictyion, almost always involving the predicted relationship between one or more variables |
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| What studies do not begin with a hypothesis? |
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| What does the development of predictions, in and of itself, force researhers to do? |
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| think logically, exercise critical judgement, and to tie together earlier findings |
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| What does the failure of data to support a prediction force a researcher to do? |
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| forces them to analyze theory or previous research critically, review limiation of study methods, explore alternate explanations |
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| What would make a hypothesis untestable? |
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| the lack of a comparative word (more than, less than, equal to, etc) |
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| In what tense should a hypothesis be stated in? |
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| Define a research hypothesis (substantive, scientific hypothesis)? |
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| statements of expected relationships between variables |
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| Define a null (statisical hypothesis)? |
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| states there is no relationship between a dependent and independent variable |
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| How are hypothesis formally tested? |
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| Through statistical analysis |
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| In grounded theory, when do you start collecting data? |
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| before you do a literature review |
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| WHen do phenomenologist begin to do a research review? |
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| at the start of the study |
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| What are the 3 aspects of a high quality research review? |
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| comprhensive, systematic and reproducible |
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| Define the ancestory approach to search strategy? |
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| Finding the relevant studies and using footnotes to find the originator |
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| Define the descendancy approach to search strategy? |
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| Find an pivotal early study and see who cited it |
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| what is a wildcard character? |
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| Non alphabetical charater that is inserted after a truncated root to find items with that root |
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| What is an accession number? |
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| A unique identifier for each record in the database |
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| The NLM (national libarary of medicine) |
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| When you evaluate a review, what should you focus on since you don't know too much about it? |
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| What is a thematic analysis? |
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| the dection of aptteran and regularities as well as irregularities |
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| What is the main purpose of a literature review? |
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| To summarize and critically evalaute a topic with regard to theme, not just describe wha was done before |
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| How should a literature review be stated? |
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| Define a descriptive theory? |
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| A theory that accounts for an thoroughly describes a single phenomenon |
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| are descriptive theories inductive or deductive? |
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| define grand theories (macro-theories)? |
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| Explained large segments of the human experience |
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| define middle arrange theories? |
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| explains a portion of the human experience |
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| define a conceptual model? |
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| Concepts that are assembled because of the relevance to a common theme |
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| define a statistical model? |
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| Mathematical equations that express the nature and magnitude of relationships among a series of variables |
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| define schematic models (conceptual maps)? |
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| Visual representation of relationships among phenomenon, common in both qualitative and quantitative research |
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| Conceptual underpinnings of a study |
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| define theoretical framework? |
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| A study based on a theory |
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| which studies failed to identify their frameworks? |
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| define ideational theories (used by ethnographers)? |
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| Suggests that cultural conditions stem from mental activity |
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| define materialistic theories (used by ethnographers)? |
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| Material conditions are the source of cultural development |
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| define symbolic interaction? |
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| humans and how they act toward things based on their meaning to them based on interaction with other humans |
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| define conceptually dense (Grounded theory)? |
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| Many conceptual patterns and relationships, grounded in actual observation |
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| involves a critique of society and its structure |
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| if you cite a theory are you directly testing it? |
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| No because researchers assume that the theories are valid |
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| what is the main critique for nursing research? |
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| It produces isolated findings are difficult to integrate the because of the lack of a theoretical foundation |
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| what is a practice theory? |
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| a theory that focuses on clinical practice in a specific clinical speciality |
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| what are the 4 central concepts to a nursing model? |
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| person, environement, health, nursing |
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| who uses generalizability and who uses transferability? |
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| generalizability (quantitative) transferability (qualitative) |
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