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Week 7 Flashcards

1
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What factors make qualitative research challenging and need consideration when undertaking it?

A
  • can be time consuming
  • large volumes of unorganised data
  • no structured analytical process
  • amount of data and how they are stored and managed
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What is variance and what is it used for?

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Measures the variability that includes every score in the distribution rather than only 2 scores
-takes into account every individual score

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3
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What is range?

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  • The difference between the highest and lowest scores.

- simplest and most unstable measure of variability

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4
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What is the average of scores called?

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Mean

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5
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What is the middle score called?

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Median

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6
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What is the most common score called?

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Mode

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7
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The distance between lowest and highest scores is called the?

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Range

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8
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A flat topped or flattened out curve is called?

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Kurtosis

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9
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Mean,median and mode are examples of a?

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Statistic

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10
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A Likert scale is an example of an?

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Ordinal measure

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11
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More than one method of data collection in qualitative research is called?

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Triangulation

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12
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What represents the percentage of cases a given score exceeds?

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Percentile

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13
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In qualitative research, trustworthiness of data collected can be ensured by?

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Member checking

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14
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In qualitative research, data collected is often broken down into?

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Codes and themes.

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15
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One role of descriptive statistics is to?

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Summarise the data.

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16
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Results section of research papers, summarise findings with 2 major goals. These are?

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  • to describe/explain phenomenon of interest

- to predict aspects related to that phenomenon

17
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Describe how qualitative research findings are analysed.

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  • it looks for commonalities.

- researchers look for themes, patterns and meaning

18
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What is inductive process?

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a logical process of reasoning.

  • used to develop more general rules from specific observations
  • moves from the specific to the more generalised
  • more often used in qualitative
19
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What is deductive process?

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logical process of developing specific predictions (hypotheses) from general principles.

  • moves from the general to the particular
  • more often used for quantitative research
20
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what is ethnography?

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aims to examine conceptual and structural patterns in an identified culture

21
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How can we prove the trustworthiness of the research?

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  • credibility or rigor
  • confirmability
  • audit trails
  • member checks
  • triangulation
22
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What do descriptive statistics allow the researcher to do?

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allows the researcher to describe, organise and summarise raw data

23
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What does Inferential statistics allow the researcher to do?

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allows the researcher to estimate how reliably they can make predictions and generalise their findings based on the data.

24
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What are the 2 important functions of descriptive data?

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  1. organisation of data into figures eg - piecharts, histograms, scatter plots
  2. to enable trends and differences to be noted and calculation of simple statistics.
25
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list the 4 levels of measurement

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  • nominal
  • ordinal
  • interval
  • ratio
26
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what is nominal measurement used for?

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it is used to classify objects/events into discrete categories

27
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What is frequency distribution?

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  • the most basic way of organising data
  • looks at the number of times each event occurs
  • is often presented as a percentage
28
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what does ordinal measurement used for?

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  • used to show relative ranking of events/objects

- conveys more information than nominal data.

29
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what is symmetry?

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2 halves of a distribution are mirror images of each other

30
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what is skewness?

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measure of the asymmetry of the distribution of score

31
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what is kurtosis?

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this is related to the ‘peakness’ or flatness of a distribution

NUR363 2017 (11 decks)

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