Differences in quantitative and qualitative research are based on: **
a. The organization (design of the study)
b. Sets of assumptions about the nature of reality
c. The procedures used to collect the data
d. The statistical procedures used to analyze the data - correct answer ...
Differences in quantitative and qualitative research are based on: **
a. The organization (design of the study)
b. Sets of assumptions about the nature of reality
c. The procedures used to collect the data
d. The statistical procedures used to analyze the data - correct answer Sets of
assumptions about the nature of reality
Dr. Smith uses a single subject design to examine the effects of a naming treatment on three subjects
with aphasia. What's the first phase of his study?
a. Data collection
b. Baseline
c. Intervention
d. Withdrawal - correct answer Baseline
Research issues related to ethics, difficulties with experimental control and reliance on numbers has
stimulated the use of:
a. Qualitative research methods
b. Clinical trials
c. Descriptive studies
d. Meta analysis - correct answer Qualitative research methods
A brief summary of the conclusions from a methodological review of one or more journal articles that is
used to answer a clinical problem is known as a:
a. Systematic review
b. Meta-analysis
c. CAT
d. Structural abstract - correct answer CAT
, How does a clinician/investigator doing a single subject study decided when to stop taking baseline
data?
a. Tells the client to let him know when he's doing the best he can
b. Watches for signs of fatigue/frustration and diminished performance
c. Watches for stable or contra-therapetuic trends
d. All of the above - correct answer Watches for stable or contra-therapeutic
trends
How are data from single subject design experiments typically displayed?
a. Graphically
b. In tables
c. On pie charts
d. Using p-values - correct answer Graphically
Dr. smith, a qualitative researcher, is examining the role of speech-language pathologist support on
nursing assistants (NA) perception of the usefulness of communication plans in facilitating
communication interactions between NAs and residents. He randomly assigns 50 NAs to supported and
non-supported groups and, after two weeks of communication plan implementation, conducts
structured 1:1 interviews with the NAs. After interviewing 10 of the 25 NAs in each group, he finds he is
not learning anything new. This is an example of:
a. Experimental mortality
b. Failed experiment
c. Sampling error
d. Data saturation - correct answer Data saturation
Single subject research is useful in studying treatment efficacy for a:
a. Small number of homogenous subjects
b. Large numbers of homogenous subjects
c. Small number of heterogenous subjects
d. Group of stroke patients in the early post onset period - correct answer
Small number of homogenous subjects
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