Nurs 371 Final Exam Questions and
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What is Validity? - ✔✔whether or not the results of the study were obtained
via sound scientific methods
What is reliability? - ✔✔the quality of being trustworthy and believable
- results from expertise and experience
What is external validity? - ✔✔*the findings are generalizable*
- can take findings from small sample size and apply to larger population
What is internal validity? - ✔✔- Knowing with certainty that it was the
independent variable that caused the change in the dependent variable
*not confounding variables*
- what you did actually worked
What is a Solomon 4 Group Design - ✔✔- 4 groups total
- 2 groups get intervention, 2 groups serve as control
- 1 control and 1 intervention group get pretest
- all groups get posttest
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- removes test-retest bias but also gives baseline data
What is a Factorial Design? - ✔✔- 4 groups
- looks at impact of 2 or more interventions
- For example, one group gets A, one gets B, one gets AB and one gets
nothing
What is a Quasi-Experimental Study? - ✔✔- level 3
- the independent variable is manipulated but there *is no randomization or
control group*
- typically studies in which it would be unethical for a control group to be
included
3 Group RCT - ✔✔- intervention group
- attention control group that doesn't get intervention but gets everything
else
- control group gets nothing
- adding the attention control group helps isolate the independent variable
2-Group RCT with Posttest Only - ✔✔- intervention and control group
- not as strong because without the pretest there is no baseline data
2-Group RCT with repeated measures - ✔✔- intervention, control, baseline
data, then test scores and test again months later