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| At what point in an educational program should evaluation criteria be established? |
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| At the beginning of the program |
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| What is an educational goal? |
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| A general, long-range outcome to work toward(ie, successful community nutrition program on breastfeeding) |
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| What is an educational objective? |
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| A specific outcome stated in measurable observable behavior (ie, demonstrate the use of a breast pump) |
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| How should behavioral objectives be stated? |
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| Using measurable action verbs (ie, demonstrating, prepare, etc); verbs such as "know" or "understand" are not measurable |
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| When does formative evaluation occur? |
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| At the beginning or during the midst of an educational program |
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| When does summative evaluation occur? |
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| At the end of an educational program |
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| What is the least effective means of health education and why? |
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| Self-instruction, because it does not allow instructor-student interaction |
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| What is the most effective means of health education and why? |
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| Demonstration/return demonstration; application permits the greatest retention by the learner |
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| Which learning domain is involved when a student uses critical thinking to pass an exam? |
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| Which learning domain is involved when a student uses manual skills to prepare a pureed meal? |
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| What is self-disclosure and what effect can it have during a counseling discussion? |
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| A response in which the counselor relates information about himself, which can serve to strengthen the relationship with the client |
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| Which learning domain is involved when a client expresses her opinion about the value of losing weight? |
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| Re-stating what the client says, using the counselor's own words; assures understanding |
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| In an experimental research study, how does the researcher establish control of most variables? |
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| Through random selection of subjects in the control and experimental groups |
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| When should the method of statistical analysis be determined? |
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| During the design, or planning, phase of research |
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| In an experimental study, is the control group or the experimental group exposed to the independent variable? |
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| What is the purpose of the introduction (or objective) section of a research paper? |
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| To outline what is currently known about the topic |
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| What is the purpose of the methodology (or design) section of a research paper? |
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| To describe the data gathering process and statistical treatment |
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| What is the purpose of the results section of a research paper? |
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| To present the data collected and the statistical analysis results, without interpretation |
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| What is the purpose of the discussion section of a research paper? |
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| To discuss the significance of the results and inferences as to the relationship between variables of interest |
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| What is the purpose of the implications (or applications) section of a research paper? |
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| To address how the results might be applied to practice |
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| What are 2 types of measures to collect data? |
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| Observation and self-reporting (via interview or questionnaire) |
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| The conscious or unconscious influence of the researcher on the outcome of the research |
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| What is an independent variable? |
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| The treatment applied to an experimental group in a research study |
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| What is a dependent variable? |
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| The observation, measurement, or outcome of the effect of the independent variable on the experimental group |
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| When discussing the variability of data, the highest score minus the lowest score is known as what? |
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| When discussing the deviation of values from the mean, 68% of data falls where? |
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| One standard deviation above and below the mean (34% on either side of the mean) |
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| What is the null hypothesis? |
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| A hypothesis that states that there is no statistically significant relationship between variables |
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| What are 3 measures of central tendency? |
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| What determines the strength of correlation between variables in a correlational study? |
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| The closer the correlation coefficient is to +1 or -1 |
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| What 3 properties are needed for an experimental design study? |
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| Randomization, control, and manipulation |
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| The determination that a measuring instrument is consistent |
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| The determination that a measuring instrument is both consistent AND accurate |
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| What is the Delphi technique? |
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| Research that gains expert opinion on a subject; multiple rounds of data collection use data from the previous round |
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