EDAC UPDATED STUDY QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔What are the 3 methodologies in EBD? - ✔✔quantitative approach
qualitative approach
mixed methods approch
✔✔Which methodology approach emphasis multiple participant views and theory
generation? - ✔✔Qualitative (constructivist) approach
✔✔What is the goal of qualitative research? - ✔✔To understand the complexity of the
topics under study from personal perspectives, experiences,and interactions.
✔✔Which method of research tends to be exploratory in nature? - ✔✔Qualitative
✔✔Which Method of research employs inductive thinking, which progresses from
specific observations to general inferences and theories. - ✔✔Qualitative
✔✔Which method of research is most interested in norms or averages of groups
instead of individual performance? - ✔✔Quantitative Research
✔✔Which method of research takes a more holistic view of the research and believe
that it should be conducted in historical social and other contexts? - ✔✔Qualitative
✔✔Which method of research is Open-ended and more flexible in terms of procedure,
design and measurement methods, whcih may consistently change and develop along
the research process? - ✔✔Qualitative
✔✔In ____________ research, raw data are typically transferred to narratives. -
✔✔Qualitative research
,✔✔Mixed method research - ✔✔methods are adopted from both qualitative and
quantitative approaches.
✔✔Which method should be used if the goal is to test theories? - ✔✔Quantitative
approach
✔✔Which methods should be used if there is little or no previous research on the topic?
- ✔✔Qualitative approach
✔✔How can triangulation be used? - ✔✔To help correct any imperfections found in
each methodology to build a solid ground for powerful conclusions.
✔✔Research Design - ✔✔is the structure of research study that pulls various
components together.
✔✔Experiment or randomized controlled trial - ✔✔Researchers control and manipulate
variables and randomly assign research participants to different conditions or levels of
the independent variables. (example: patients, staff members, groups, units)
✔✔Quasi-experiment - ✔✔Similar to true experiments in many aspects - causal
hypothesis, procedures to test the hypothesis, comparison of tat least two conditions,
and some control of cofounding variables - but lacks the rigorous control usually found
in experiments.
✔✔Before - after study (prepost study) - ✔✔Measures the outcomes both before the
intervention (in the existing environment) and after the intervention (in the new
environment). By comparing the data collected before the intervention with those
collected after the intervention, researchers an tell whether the intervention is effective
in improving outcomes.
✔✔Prospective vs retrospective study - ✔✔Prospective studies look forward in time.
Researchers in a prospective study usually have a research plan (including a group of
subjects) before they gegin to collect the outcome data. Most studies related to EBD are
prospective.
A retrospective study looks backward in time. Researchers usually examine the existing
data to find the cause of certain outcomes.
✔✔Correlation study - ✔✔Collects and examines two or more characteristics or
variables of the reach subjects to see if the differences in one variable are related to
differences in other variables.
A positive correlation exists when one variable increases and another variable tends to
increase. A negative correlation exists when on variable increases and another variable
tends to decrease. However correlation does not imply causal direction. Either of the
, two correlated variables can be the cause, or a third unknown variable may be the
cause of both variables.
✔✔Survey research - ✔✔The purpose of survey research is to learn about the
behaviors, opinions, attitudes, and feeling of a defined population about specific issues
or topics at the time when the study is conducted.
✔✔Case Study - ✔✔Involves in-depth investigation of one or several cases: individuals,
units or projects. In a case study researchers use multiple quantitative or qualitative
methods, such as the following, to collect extensive data on one case or several cases:
observation
interviews
questionnaire survey
drawings
documents
✔✔Ethnographic study - ✔✔Focuses on a group of people who share a common
culture (instead of one or several individual cases). An ethnographic study gathers in-
depth data related to patterns of interpretation and is particularly helpful in
understanding a complex working situation.
✔✔Grounded Theory - ✔✔Aims at the development of theory about phenomena of
interest in a complex iterative process of qualitative data collection, analysis, and theory
building.
✔✔Just-in-time study - ✔✔In some healthcare building projects, it is necessary to
conduct quick research to inform decision making on certain issues such as room size,
furniture, and materials, This kind of research usually has a set deadline; it is called just-
in-time study, reflecting its time-sensitive nature.
✔✔Variable - ✔✔AN entity that may change in value.
✔✔Metric - ✔✔the standard measurement of a variable.
✔✔In EBD Research what are researchers interested in? - ✔✔How the design of the
physical environment influences outcomes (including clinical and operations outcomes).
✔✔Independent Variables - ✔✔Refer to the causes (for example the physical
environment design)
✔✔Dependent variables - ✔✔refer to the effects ( outcomes in EBD research).
✔✔Observation - ✔✔the main type for measurement tool in the study of how human
beings interact with the physical environment.
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔What are the 3 methodologies in EBD? - ✔✔quantitative approach
qualitative approach
mixed methods approch
✔✔Which methodology approach emphasis multiple participant views and theory
generation? - ✔✔Qualitative (constructivist) approach
✔✔What is the goal of qualitative research? - ✔✔To understand the complexity of the
topics under study from personal perspectives, experiences,and interactions.
✔✔Which method of research tends to be exploratory in nature? - ✔✔Qualitative
✔✔Which Method of research employs inductive thinking, which progresses from
specific observations to general inferences and theories. - ✔✔Qualitative
✔✔Which method of research is most interested in norms or averages of groups
instead of individual performance? - ✔✔Quantitative Research
✔✔Which method of research takes a more holistic view of the research and believe
that it should be conducted in historical social and other contexts? - ✔✔Qualitative
✔✔Which method of research is Open-ended and more flexible in terms of procedure,
design and measurement methods, whcih may consistently change and develop along
the research process? - ✔✔Qualitative
✔✔In ____________ research, raw data are typically transferred to narratives. -
✔✔Qualitative research
,✔✔Mixed method research - ✔✔methods are adopted from both qualitative and
quantitative approaches.
✔✔Which method should be used if the goal is to test theories? - ✔✔Quantitative
approach
✔✔Which methods should be used if there is little or no previous research on the topic?
- ✔✔Qualitative approach
✔✔How can triangulation be used? - ✔✔To help correct any imperfections found in
each methodology to build a solid ground for powerful conclusions.
✔✔Research Design - ✔✔is the structure of research study that pulls various
components together.
✔✔Experiment or randomized controlled trial - ✔✔Researchers control and manipulate
variables and randomly assign research participants to different conditions or levels of
the independent variables. (example: patients, staff members, groups, units)
✔✔Quasi-experiment - ✔✔Similar to true experiments in many aspects - causal
hypothesis, procedures to test the hypothesis, comparison of tat least two conditions,
and some control of cofounding variables - but lacks the rigorous control usually found
in experiments.
✔✔Before - after study (prepost study) - ✔✔Measures the outcomes both before the
intervention (in the existing environment) and after the intervention (in the new
environment). By comparing the data collected before the intervention with those
collected after the intervention, researchers an tell whether the intervention is effective
in improving outcomes.
✔✔Prospective vs retrospective study - ✔✔Prospective studies look forward in time.
Researchers in a prospective study usually have a research plan (including a group of
subjects) before they gegin to collect the outcome data. Most studies related to EBD are
prospective.
A retrospective study looks backward in time. Researchers usually examine the existing
data to find the cause of certain outcomes.
✔✔Correlation study - ✔✔Collects and examines two or more characteristics or
variables of the reach subjects to see if the differences in one variable are related to
differences in other variables.
A positive correlation exists when one variable increases and another variable tends to
increase. A negative correlation exists when on variable increases and another variable
tends to decrease. However correlation does not imply causal direction. Either of the
, two correlated variables can be the cause, or a third unknown variable may be the
cause of both variables.
✔✔Survey research - ✔✔The purpose of survey research is to learn about the
behaviors, opinions, attitudes, and feeling of a defined population about specific issues
or topics at the time when the study is conducted.
✔✔Case Study - ✔✔Involves in-depth investigation of one or several cases: individuals,
units or projects. In a case study researchers use multiple quantitative or qualitative
methods, such as the following, to collect extensive data on one case or several cases:
observation
interviews
questionnaire survey
drawings
documents
✔✔Ethnographic study - ✔✔Focuses on a group of people who share a common
culture (instead of one or several individual cases). An ethnographic study gathers in-
depth data related to patterns of interpretation and is particularly helpful in
understanding a complex working situation.
✔✔Grounded Theory - ✔✔Aims at the development of theory about phenomena of
interest in a complex iterative process of qualitative data collection, analysis, and theory
building.
✔✔Just-in-time study - ✔✔In some healthcare building projects, it is necessary to
conduct quick research to inform decision making on certain issues such as room size,
furniture, and materials, This kind of research usually has a set deadline; it is called just-
in-time study, reflecting its time-sensitive nature.
✔✔Variable - ✔✔AN entity that may change in value.
✔✔Metric - ✔✔the standard measurement of a variable.
✔✔In EBD Research what are researchers interested in? - ✔✔How the design of the
physical environment influences outcomes (including clinical and operations outcomes).
✔✔Independent Variables - ✔✔Refer to the causes (for example the physical
environment design)
✔✔Dependent variables - ✔✔refer to the effects ( outcomes in EBD research).
✔✔Observation - ✔✔the main type for measurement tool in the study of how human
beings interact with the physical environment.
