NURS-3151 Week 3: Quiz – BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGNS
BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGNS
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BY DAY 7
Complete the quiz which covers the content in the Quantitative Research Design PowerPoint webinar and Learning Resources for this week. The quiz includes questions that are multiple choice, true/false, and matching. Be sure to familiarize yourself with the following five characteristics of quantitative research designs: (a) causality, (b) control, (c) randomization, (d) reliability, and (e) validity.
You will have 50 minutes to complete this quiz, and you must complete the quiz in one sitting. You will be allowed only one attempt for this quiz.
Note on Quiz Content: This quiz will cover: (a) four basic quantitative designs along with their overall strengths and weaknesses, (b) characteristics of quantitative research designs, (c) problems with the commonly pretest-posttest study [one type of quasi-experimental design], and (d) value of randomized clinical trials in health care.
Attempt History
Attempt
Time
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Attempt 1
38 minutes
72 out of 75
Score for this quiz: 72 out of 75
Submitted Dec 14 at 3:09pm
This attempt took 38 minutes.
Question 1
3 / 3 pts
Home care nurses are observed as they provide skin care to individuals with hospital acquired pressure ulcers. On average, the nurses spend at least ten minutes more providing this care than they normally do. This is an example of what concept relevant to quantitative research?
Bias
Control
Correct!
Hawthorne effect
Placebo effect
Question 2
3 / 3 pts
A sampling technique used in experimental design includes
Purposeful
Correct!
Randomization
Snowball
Voluntary selection
Question 3
3 / 3 pts
A causal relationship is said to exist
Correct!
When the dependent variable changes as the independent variable is manipulated.
When the independent variable changes as the dependent variable is manipulated.
There is no change when either of the variables are manipulated.
Both variables change when the independent variable is manipulated.
Question 4
3 / 3 pts
A researcher wants to know whether nursing fatigue is one cause of poor patient satisfaction scores. The independent variable is
Correct!
Nursing fatigue
Patient satisfaction scores
Both nursing fatigue and patient satisfaction scores
Number of hours worked by the nurse during the week previous to measuring patient satisfaction scores.
Question 5
3 / 3 pts
Causality is tested through which of the following?
Grounded theory
Correct!
Experimental research
All quantitative research
Descriptive research
Question 6
3 / 3 pts
The researcher must select an appropriate design for a study in order to eliminate error and make critique of the findings possible.
True
Correct!
False
Question 7
3 / 3 pts
A mixed methods research design means two types of quantitative studies are used to collect and analyze the data.
True
Correct!
False
Question 8
0 / 3 pts
The purpose of ___________ in the health sciences is to create knowledge that will improve health, lengthen life, and decrease death and disability.
You Answered
Scientific method
Basic research
Correct Answer
Applied research
Correlational research
Question 9
3 / 3 pts
Quantitative research can be described as
Correct!
objective and formal
subjective and formal
objective and informal
subjective and informal
Question 10
3 / 3 pts
In quantitative experimental research, the independent variable is manipulated to determine the effects on the dependent variable.
Correct!
True
False
Question 11
3 / 3 pts
The blueprint for quantitative studies is termed
Correct!
research design
