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Nursing Research in Canada MIDTERM Exam Questions With Correct Answers Qualitative research - answeris a systematic, interactive, and subjective research method used to describe and give meaning to human experiences aim of inquiry - answerThe goals or specific objectives of the research, which...

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Nursing Research in Canada MIDTERM
Exam Questions With Correct Answers

Qualitative research - answer✔is a systematic, interactive, and subjective research method used
to describe and give meaning to human experiences

aim of inquiry - answer✔The goals or specific objectives of the
research, which vary with the paradigm .

clinical question - answer✔A presentation of an idea that forms the foundation for a study; it is
developed from the research problem and results in the research hypothesis.

alpha - answer✔Considered an a priori probability because it is
set before the data are collected. Also considered a conditional probability because the null
hypothesis is assumed to be true

concept - answer✔An image or symbolic representation of an abstract idea.

naturalist setting - answer✔is one that people live in everyday

Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) - answer✔A statistic that measures differences among
group means and uses a statistical technique to equate the groups under study in relation to an
important variable.

Dependant variable - answer✔In experimental studies, the presumed effect of the independent
or experimental variable on the outcome. Variation in the independent variable changes this
effect. The dependent variable is observed but not manipulated.

text - answer✔Data in a contextual form; that is, narrative or
words that were written from recorded interviews and
then transcribed.

Directional hypothesis - answer✔A hypothesis that specifies the expected direction of the
relationship between independent and dependent variables

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Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) - answer✔A statistic that tests whether group means differ
from each other; instead of testing each pair of means separately, ANOVA considers the
variation among all groups.

conceptual definition - answer✔The general meaning of a concept.

hypothesis - answer✔A best guess or prediction about what a
researcher expects to find with regard to the
relationship between two or more variables.

Chi-square - answer✔A nonparametric statistic used to determine whether the frequency found
in each category is different from the frequency that would be expected by chance.

conceptual framework - answer✔A structure of concepts, theories, or both that is used to
construct a map for the study

context dependent - answer✔meaning of an observation is defined by its circumstance or
environment

purposive sample - answer✔A group consisting of particular
people who can illuminate the phenomenon they want
to study

independent variable - answer✔The antecedent or variable that has the presumed effect on the
dependent variable. The independent variable is manipulated in experimental research studies

confidence interval - answer✔An estimated range of values, which are likely to include an
unknown population parameter calculated from a given set of sample data. Abbreviated CI.

Constructism - answer✔The basis for naturalistic (qualitative)
research, which developed from writers such as
Immanuel Kant, who sought alternative ways of
thinking about the world; a belief that reality is not
fixed but rather is a construction of the people
perceiving it.

constructivism paradigm - answer✔The basis of most qualitative research, which is concerned
with the ways in which people construct their worlds.

Correlation - answer✔The degree of association between two variables

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