Assignment 2: Identifying Research Study Designs
Instructions
A research design is sometimes referred to as the blueprint for a study. Four types of quantitative
designs discussed in your text are descriptive, correlational (nonexperimental), experimental, and quasi-
experimental. This activity will help you identify the different designs.
Review Chapters 2, Table 2-3, 3, 10, 11.
This quiz was locked Jan 20 at 11:59pm.
Attempt History
Attempt Time Score
LATEST Attempt 1 6 minutes 90 out of 100
Score for this quiz: 90 out of 100
Submitted Jan 16 at 6:25pm
This attempt took 6 minutes.
Question 1 pts
Sarah plans to conduct a study about the relative amounts of stress in
individuals. She wanted to know the amount of stress among adolescents,
young adult, middle adult and the late adult women. The research design
of her study would be:
Cohort
Correct! descriptive
, Qualitative
correlational
Question 2 pts
Jane wanted to know the relationship between the level of anxiety
experienced during final exams and the exam performance among the
level 4 student nurses. The type of research design utilized is:
experimental
Correct! correlational
retrospective
quasi-experimental
Rationale: Correlational design is used to examine relationships
among variables. Unit Two, p. 207
Question 3 pts
Amy randomly groups research participants into two groups and tests the
effects of yoga on stress levels. This study uses this type of research
design:
correlational
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Instructions
A research design is sometimes referred to as the blueprint for a study. Four types of quantitative
designs discussed in your text are descriptive, correlational (nonexperimental), experimental, and quasi-
experimental. This activity will help you identify the different designs.
Review Chapters 2, Table 2-3, 3, 10, 11.
This quiz was locked Jan 20 at 11:59pm.
Attempt History
Attempt Time Score
LATEST Attempt 1 6 minutes 90 out of 100
Score for this quiz: 90 out of 100
Submitted Jan 16 at 6:25pm
This attempt took 6 minutes.
Question 1 pts
Sarah plans to conduct a study about the relative amounts of stress in
individuals. She wanted to know the amount of stress among adolescents,
young adult, middle adult and the late adult women. The research design
of her study would be:
Cohort
Correct! descriptive
, Qualitative
correlational
Question 2 pts
Jane wanted to know the relationship between the level of anxiety
experienced during final exams and the exam performance among the
level 4 student nurses. The type of research design utilized is:
experimental
Correct! correlational
retrospective
quasi-experimental
Rationale: Correlational design is used to examine relationships
among variables. Unit Two, p. 207
Question 3 pts
Amy randomly groups research participants into two groups and tests the
effects of yoga on stress levels. This study uses this type of research
design:
correlational
sy u10rv ey
000
