NURS 101 NURSING RESEARCH KNOWLEDGE SUMMER VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND ACTUAL
ANSWERS AUGUST 2024 EMORY UNIVERSITY(LATEST UPDATE!)
How do you know whether a study is feasible to conduct? Ask yourself the following questions...
1. is the problem / purpose within the researcher's area of expertise?
2. How will the costs of the study be paid for?
3. How will you find your sample, facility, or equipment that you need for the study?
4. Is the purpose of your study ethical and are your subject's rights being protected?
Where do research objectives, questions, or hypotheses for a study come from?
They are based on the problem, purpose, literature review, and study framework.
What's the main job of the research objectives, questions, or hypotheses for a study?
to direct the remaining steps of the study or research process!
In other words....how will we measure the variables, how will we select subjects / participants,
what statistics will we use, etc...
What is a research objective (or aim) in a quantitative study?
,A clear, concise, declarative statement that is expressed in the present tense. A research
objective is more likely to be used in a descriptive or correlational study design. Research
objectives may focus on one or two variables and:
1.) indicate whether they are to be identified or described
2.) identify relationships among variables
3.) determine differences among two or more groups with regard to the variables.
What is a research question in a quantitative study?
A clear, concise interrogative statement that is worded in the present tense, includes one or
more variables, and is expressed to guide the implementation of a quantitative study. Research
questions may:
1.) describe variables
2.) examine relationships among variables
3.) use independent variables to predict dependent variables
4.) determine differences among two or more groups with regard to the variables.
*it is really only a matter of choice whether a researcher identifies objectives/aims or questions
for their descriptive or correlational study.*
What is a hypothesis?
A formal statement of the expected relationship(s) between two or more variables in a specified
population.
A clearly stated hypotheses includes the variables to be manipulated or measured, identifies the
population to be examined, and indicates the proposed outcomes for the study.
, Hypotheses influence study design, sampling methods, data collection and analysis, and
interpretation of findings.
What are variables?
variables are qualities, properties, or characteristics of persons, things, or situations that change
or vary. They need to be concisely defined to promote their manipulation and measurement in
quantitative research.
What is an independent variable?
a stimulus or activity that is manipulated or varied by the researcher to create an effect on the
dependent variable. AKA: the treatment, the intervention, or the experimental variable
What is a dependent variable?
the outcome or response that the researcher wants to predict or explain. Changes in the
dependent variable are presumed to be caused by the independent variable.
What types of quantitative research studies use independent and dependent variables?
Quasi-experimental and experimental research studies definitely have independent and
dependent variables.
One specific type of correlational research study, a predictive correlational study, also uses
independent and dependent variables. You don't have to know this fact for this class...we keep
IV's and DVs at the quasi-experimental and experimental levels in our class to keep it simple, but
it's something I'd like you to be aware of.
ANSWERS AUGUST 2024 EMORY UNIVERSITY(LATEST UPDATE!)
How do you know whether a study is feasible to conduct? Ask yourself the following questions...
1. is the problem / purpose within the researcher's area of expertise?
2. How will the costs of the study be paid for?
3. How will you find your sample, facility, or equipment that you need for the study?
4. Is the purpose of your study ethical and are your subject's rights being protected?
Where do research objectives, questions, or hypotheses for a study come from?
They are based on the problem, purpose, literature review, and study framework.
What's the main job of the research objectives, questions, or hypotheses for a study?
to direct the remaining steps of the study or research process!
In other words....how will we measure the variables, how will we select subjects / participants,
what statistics will we use, etc...
What is a research objective (or aim) in a quantitative study?
,A clear, concise, declarative statement that is expressed in the present tense. A research
objective is more likely to be used in a descriptive or correlational study design. Research
objectives may focus on one or two variables and:
1.) indicate whether they are to be identified or described
2.) identify relationships among variables
3.) determine differences among two or more groups with regard to the variables.
What is a research question in a quantitative study?
A clear, concise interrogative statement that is worded in the present tense, includes one or
more variables, and is expressed to guide the implementation of a quantitative study. Research
questions may:
1.) describe variables
2.) examine relationships among variables
3.) use independent variables to predict dependent variables
4.) determine differences among two or more groups with regard to the variables.
*it is really only a matter of choice whether a researcher identifies objectives/aims or questions
for their descriptive or correlational study.*
What is a hypothesis?
A formal statement of the expected relationship(s) between two or more variables in a specified
population.
A clearly stated hypotheses includes the variables to be manipulated or measured, identifies the
population to be examined, and indicates the proposed outcomes for the study.
, Hypotheses influence study design, sampling methods, data collection and analysis, and
interpretation of findings.
What are variables?
variables are qualities, properties, or characteristics of persons, things, or situations that change
or vary. They need to be concisely defined to promote their manipulation and measurement in
quantitative research.
What is an independent variable?
a stimulus or activity that is manipulated or varied by the researcher to create an effect on the
dependent variable. AKA: the treatment, the intervention, or the experimental variable
What is a dependent variable?
the outcome or response that the researcher wants to predict or explain. Changes in the
dependent variable are presumed to be caused by the independent variable.
What types of quantitative research studies use independent and dependent variables?
Quasi-experimental and experimental research studies definitely have independent and
dependent variables.
One specific type of correlational research study, a predictive correlational study, also uses
independent and dependent variables. You don't have to know this fact for this class...we keep
IV's and DVs at the quasi-experimental and experimental levels in our class to keep it simple, but
it's something I'd like you to be aware of.
