NURS 3515 ACTUAL FINALS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Intervening variables affect the patient before/during/after the study? - ✔✔during
✔✔Can intervening variables affect the dependent variable? Are they a part of the
study? - ✔✔Yes, No
✔✔After-only designs is particularly useful when outcomes can/cannot be measured
beforehand: - ✔✔cannot
✔✔Evaluation research documents or evaluates what? - ✔✔effectiveness
✔✔Are cause and effect relationships analyzed or evaluated? - ✔✔analyzed
✔✔Another word for internal validity: - ✔✔Control issues
✔✔Another word for external validity: - ✔✔Generalizability
✔✔Studies conducted in real-world settings (quasi-experimental) have fewer/higher
threats to external validity (generalizability)? - ✔✔Fewer
✔✔Solomon-Four Group are what type of design? - ✔✔Experimental
✔✔Solomon-Four groups have how many ways to test something? - ✔✔two (2)
✔✔Experimental designs include: - ✔✔Solomon four-group
True Experimental Pretest-posttest control group design
After-only design
, ✔✔Experimental designs seek to establish cause-and effect relationships by active (_)
of variables - ✔✔Manipulation
✔✔What is the first question to ask to determine whether an experimental vs. non-
experimental should be used? - ✔✔Nature of research problems
✔✔Non-experimental studies = NO (_)? - ✔✔Manipulation
✔✔What do nonexperimental designs attempt to test (observe/analyze)? -
✔✔Differences among variables
✔✔Keywords for Descriptive Exploratory Designs: - ✔✔Characterization
✔✔When is a Descriptive Exploratory Design used? - ✔✔When little is known about a
research topic
✔✔Keywords for Correlational studies: - ✔✔Relationships
Variables
✔✔Are causal inferences/relationships are analyzed or made? - ✔✔Analyzed
✔✔Cross-Sectional studies involve data collection at one point / multiples points in
time? Does it allow multiple group comparisons? - ✔✔One point
Yes
✔✔Keywords for longitudinal/prospective studies: - ✔✔Observing change
Own controls
Trends in data
✔✔Key concepts for Ex Post Facto/Retrospective: - ✔✔the dependent variable has
already been affected.
offers a higher level of control than does a correlational study.
✔✔Psychometrics deal with (_) and delvelopment of (_)(_) - ✔✔Theory
Measurement instruments
✔✔Descriptive nonexperimental studies use what instead of hypotheses? -
✔✔Research Questions
✔✔Methodological studies (_) constructs/concepts? What is it design to test? -
✔✔Measures
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Intervening variables affect the patient before/during/after the study? - ✔✔during
✔✔Can intervening variables affect the dependent variable? Are they a part of the
study? - ✔✔Yes, No
✔✔After-only designs is particularly useful when outcomes can/cannot be measured
beforehand: - ✔✔cannot
✔✔Evaluation research documents or evaluates what? - ✔✔effectiveness
✔✔Are cause and effect relationships analyzed or evaluated? - ✔✔analyzed
✔✔Another word for internal validity: - ✔✔Control issues
✔✔Another word for external validity: - ✔✔Generalizability
✔✔Studies conducted in real-world settings (quasi-experimental) have fewer/higher
threats to external validity (generalizability)? - ✔✔Fewer
✔✔Solomon-Four Group are what type of design? - ✔✔Experimental
✔✔Solomon-Four groups have how many ways to test something? - ✔✔two (2)
✔✔Experimental designs include: - ✔✔Solomon four-group
True Experimental Pretest-posttest control group design
After-only design
, ✔✔Experimental designs seek to establish cause-and effect relationships by active (_)
of variables - ✔✔Manipulation
✔✔What is the first question to ask to determine whether an experimental vs. non-
experimental should be used? - ✔✔Nature of research problems
✔✔Non-experimental studies = NO (_)? - ✔✔Manipulation
✔✔What do nonexperimental designs attempt to test (observe/analyze)? -
✔✔Differences among variables
✔✔Keywords for Descriptive Exploratory Designs: - ✔✔Characterization
✔✔When is a Descriptive Exploratory Design used? - ✔✔When little is known about a
research topic
✔✔Keywords for Correlational studies: - ✔✔Relationships
Variables
✔✔Are causal inferences/relationships are analyzed or made? - ✔✔Analyzed
✔✔Cross-Sectional studies involve data collection at one point / multiples points in
time? Does it allow multiple group comparisons? - ✔✔One point
Yes
✔✔Keywords for longitudinal/prospective studies: - ✔✔Observing change
Own controls
Trends in data
✔✔Key concepts for Ex Post Facto/Retrospective: - ✔✔the dependent variable has
already been affected.
offers a higher level of control than does a correlational study.
✔✔Psychometrics deal with (_) and delvelopment of (_)(_) - ✔✔Theory
Measurement instruments
✔✔Descriptive nonexperimental studies use what instead of hypotheses? -
✔✔Research Questions
✔✔Methodological studies (_) constructs/concepts? What is it design to test? -
✔✔Measures
