Answers Complete Solutions
1. Which adjective best captures a careful reader's mindset in scrutinizing the evidence in a research report?
A) Admiring
B) Accepting
C) Demanding
D) Deferential ANS C) Demanding
2. It is important that researchers design rigorous study methods to eliminate:
A) inferences.
B) the need for a CONSORT flow chart.
C) the rejection of null hypothesis.
D) biases. ANS D) biases.
3. Group level clinical significance is sometimes called:
A) statistical significance.
B) average significance.
C) practical significance.
D) nonsignificance. ANS C) practical significance.
4. Which is widely-used as an index of clinical significance at the group level?
A) p values
B) Effect size indexes
C) Alpha levels
D) Correlation coefficients ANS B) Effect size indexes
5. Many strategies for operationalizing clinical significance at the individual level have been developed. What
feature do they share in common?
A) They all involve establishing a benchmark score value that would be considered clinically important.
B) They all are linked to whether a change score is statistically reliable.
, C) They all involve the use of an effect size index.
D) They all involve whether a person returns to normal functioning. ANS A) They all involve establishing
a benchmark score value that would be considered clinically important.
1. Where are nurses most likely to find research evidence?
A) Wikipedia entries
B) Journal articles
C) Textbooks
D) Dissertations ANS B) Journal articles
2. Which is the term for an objective assessment of a study's strengths and limitations?
A) Evidenced-based practice
B) Statistical testing
C) Research critique
D) Literature review ANS C) Research critique
3. Quantitative researchers seek to ensure that their findings can be applied to other groups and settings. What
is this called?
A) Reflexivity
B) Generalizability
C) Research control
D) Transferability ANS B) Generalizability
1. The term emergent design refers to a design that emerges at which point in a qualitative study?
A) During the conduct of a literature review
B) While the researcher develops a conceptual framework
C) Before the study has begun
D) While the researcher is in the field collecting data ANS D) While the researcher is in the field collecting
data
2. Ethnographers strive to: