NSE 212 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS WITH 100%
VERIFIED ANSWERS
1. What are interviews used for in quantitative research?
Correct Answer: Data in quantitative studies are frequently
numerical but can also be words
2. When are interviews useful as a data collection method?
Correct Answer: Useful when the purpose is to collect information
from participants using a finite set of questions; can provide
anonymity
3. How are interviews conducted?
Correct Answer: Questions are asked verbally/orally using open-
ended or closed-ended questions
4. What is an open-ended question?
Correct Answer: Used when the researcher wants participants to
respond in their own words and when the researcher does not
know all the possible alternative responses
5. Provide an example of an open-ended question.
Correct Answer: "Are there incentives that the Canadian Nurses
Association ought to provide for members that are not currently
being provided?"
6. What is a closed-ended question?
Correct Answer: A question in which the respondent may answer
with only a fixed number of alternative responses
,7. What type of scale uses a fixed response format?
Correct Answer: Likert-type scale
8. What are the three aspects of reliability?
Correct Answer: 1. Stability, 2. Internal Consistency, 3. Equivalence
9. What are the three major kinds of validity?
Correct Answer: Content validity, Criterion-related validity,
Construct validity
10. What are the five components of a clinical question?
Correct Answer: Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome,
Time
11. Provide an example of the five components of a clinical
question.
Correct Answer: Population- adolescents aged 13-18 with type 1
diabetes; Intervention- educational intervention; Comparison-
standard care or no intervention; Outcome- improved knowledge
about diabetes management; Time- outcome measured at 3
months after the intervention
12. What are the advantages of probability sampling?
Correct Answer: The probability of selecting a representative
sample increases; the ability to generalize findings is enhanced
13. What are the disadvantages of probability sampling?
Correct Answer: Costly and more difficult to achieve; may not
always be practical; obtaining a full list of all elements (sampling
frame) is not always possible, which adds bias
14. What is the aim of inquiry?
Correct Answer: Goals or specific objectives of the research
, 15. What is the focus of inquiry related to post-positivism?
Correct Answer: Explanation, prediction, and control
16. What is anonymity in research?
Correct Answer: Researcher cannot link individuals with the
information provided
17. What are the three components for assessing the strength of
scientific evidence?
Correct Answer: Quality, Quantity, Consistency
18. How is quality defined in assessing scientific evidence?
Correct Answer: Extent to which a study's design,
implementation, and analysis minimizes bias
19. How is quantity defined in assessing scientific evidence?
Correct Answer: Number of studies that have evaluated the
research question, including sample size across studies
20. How is consistency defined in assessing scientific evidence?
Correct Answer: Degree to which studies have similar and
different designs yet the same research question and similar
findings
21. What is basic research?
Correct Answer: Research that expands nursing knowledge (e.g.,
theoretical questions)
22. What is applied research?
Correct Answer: Research designed to solve clinical problems
23. What is a clinical question?
Correct Answer: Posed by consumers of research; the first step in
VERIFIED ANSWERS
1. What are interviews used for in quantitative research?
Correct Answer: Data in quantitative studies are frequently
numerical but can also be words
2. When are interviews useful as a data collection method?
Correct Answer: Useful when the purpose is to collect information
from participants using a finite set of questions; can provide
anonymity
3. How are interviews conducted?
Correct Answer: Questions are asked verbally/orally using open-
ended or closed-ended questions
4. What is an open-ended question?
Correct Answer: Used when the researcher wants participants to
respond in their own words and when the researcher does not
know all the possible alternative responses
5. Provide an example of an open-ended question.
Correct Answer: "Are there incentives that the Canadian Nurses
Association ought to provide for members that are not currently
being provided?"
6. What is a closed-ended question?
Correct Answer: A question in which the respondent may answer
with only a fixed number of alternative responses
,7. What type of scale uses a fixed response format?
Correct Answer: Likert-type scale
8. What are the three aspects of reliability?
Correct Answer: 1. Stability, 2. Internal Consistency, 3. Equivalence
9. What are the three major kinds of validity?
Correct Answer: Content validity, Criterion-related validity,
Construct validity
10. What are the five components of a clinical question?
Correct Answer: Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome,
Time
11. Provide an example of the five components of a clinical
question.
Correct Answer: Population- adolescents aged 13-18 with type 1
diabetes; Intervention- educational intervention; Comparison-
standard care or no intervention; Outcome- improved knowledge
about diabetes management; Time- outcome measured at 3
months after the intervention
12. What are the advantages of probability sampling?
Correct Answer: The probability of selecting a representative
sample increases; the ability to generalize findings is enhanced
13. What are the disadvantages of probability sampling?
Correct Answer: Costly and more difficult to achieve; may not
always be practical; obtaining a full list of all elements (sampling
frame) is not always possible, which adds bias
14. What is the aim of inquiry?
Correct Answer: Goals or specific objectives of the research
, 15. What is the focus of inquiry related to post-positivism?
Correct Answer: Explanation, prediction, and control
16. What is anonymity in research?
Correct Answer: Researcher cannot link individuals with the
information provided
17. What are the three components for assessing the strength of
scientific evidence?
Correct Answer: Quality, Quantity, Consistency
18. How is quality defined in assessing scientific evidence?
Correct Answer: Extent to which a study's design,
implementation, and analysis minimizes bias
19. How is quantity defined in assessing scientific evidence?
Correct Answer: Number of studies that have evaluated the
research question, including sample size across studies
20. How is consistency defined in assessing scientific evidence?
Correct Answer: Degree to which studies have similar and
different designs yet the same research question and similar
findings
21. What is basic research?
Correct Answer: Research that expands nursing knowledge (e.g.,
theoretical questions)
22. What is applied research?
Correct Answer: Research designed to solve clinical problems
23. What is a clinical question?
Correct Answer: Posed by consumers of research; the first step in
