Research Review

What is an intellectual research critique?

• examination of all aspects of a research article

• identifies the weakness of research article

• evaluates whether the research article makes sense

• identifies the researcher mistakes in the research article

What is trustworthiness in the evaluation of a research article?

• evaluation of results in a quantitative article

• evaluation of results in a qualitative article

• description of the sample participants

• description of the researcher credentials

Which of the following is a structured synthesis of research findings to best address a clinical question?

• meta-analysis

• meta-synthesis

• intellectual critique

• systematic review

Which of the following involves pooling statistical results of many studies into a single quantitative analysis

• meta-synthesis

• meta-analysis

• systematic review

• review article

Which of the following is systematic compilation of qualitative studies?

• meta-analysis

• meta-synthesis

• sytematic review

• review article

Which of the following describes mixed methods research?

• qualitative

• quantitative

• a mixture of qualitative and quantitative

• focused mainly on an objective view of phenomenon

Descriptive statistics involves

• generalizing from a sample

• testing hypotheses

• measures of central tendency

• inferences

Inferential statistics involves

• description of a sample characteristics

• testing hypotheses

• central tendency measures

• percentage distributions

What is generalization as applied to research studies?

• Extension findings to a larger population

• Internal validity of a measurement

• inter-rater reliablity of a measurement

• summary of descriptive statistics

What is external validity?

• generalization to a larger population

• relationships reflect reality rather than extraneous variables

• limitations of a study

• validity of extraneous variables