GNUR 360 Exam 3 Questions And Answers Exam Review

GNUR 360 Exam 3 Questions And Answers Exam Review true - ANS-(T/F): measurement is critical in quantitative research measurement - ANS-the process of assigning numbers or values to individuals' health status, objects, events or situations using a set of rules direct measures - ANS-involve determining the value of concrete factors such as weight, waist circumference, temperature, biological indicators, and chemical characteristics indirect measures or indicators - ANS-methods used with abstract concepts that are not measured directly; rather, attributes of the concepts are used to represent the abstraction and are measured in the study levels of measurement - ANS-an organized set of rules for assigning numbers to objects so that a hierarchy in measurement from low to high is established; levels include nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio nominal-level measurement - ANS-the lowest of the four measurement categories; used when data can be organized into categories of a defined property that are exclusive and exhaustive but the categories cannot be rank-ordered, such as gender, ethnicity, material status, and diagnosis ordinal-level measurement - ANS-Method whereby data are assigned to categories that can be ranked; to rank data, one category is judged to be (or is ranked) higher or lower, or better or worse, than another category; the intervals between the ranked data are not necessarily equal, such as ranking pain as mild, moderate and severe interval-level measurement - ANS-measurement that uses interval scale, which have equal numerical distances between intervals and also follows the rules of mutually exclusive categories, exhaustive categories, and rank ordering, such as temperature ratio-level measurement - ANS-the highest form of measurement; meets all the rules of other forms of measurement--mutually exclusive categories, exhaustive categories, ordered ranks, equally spaced intervals, and a continuum of values; also includes absolute zero, such as weight, length, and volume true measure/score - ANS-score that would be obtained if no measurement error occurred (but there is always some measurement error) measurement error - ANS-difference between what exists in reality and what is measured by a research instrument random measurement error - ANS...