Exam 7: Applied Research

What is the term used to describe the entire group or whole unit of individuals having similar characteristics to which the results of an investigation can be inferred?

When the researcher is interested in studying two or more independent variables within the same study, a ___________ study is used.

You are a dental hygiene instructor in your local community college dental hygiene program teaching the community oral health course. The dean of the health sciences division would like to implement a trial run of an interprofessional education (IPE) initiative involving dental hygiene and the other healthcare professions education programs in the college. You are asked to coordinate the development and administration of dental hygiene's involvement through your community course and other community experiences in clinical and other courses. The intent is to place a group of dental hygiene students in the incoming class in the IPE program and use questionnaires, interviews, and examinations to collect and analyze process and outcomes data over their 2 years in the program to determine outcomes. Outcomes data will include students' learning of the required community oral health content in addition to their understanding, perceptions, attitudes, and future interest in relation to interprofessional collaborative practice (ICP). The data will be analyzed to evaluate the value and success of the program and to determine if it should be continued and expanded or discontinued after the initial 2 years. -Which of the following research terms can be used to describe this initial program?

The two broad categories of statistics are descriptive and:

What is the term that is used to represent the exact middle score or value in an ordered distribution of scores?

You are a dental hygiene instructor in your local community college dental hygiene program teaching the community oral health course. The dean of the health sciences division would like to implement a trial run of an interprofessional education (IPE) initiative involving dental hygiene and the other healthcare professions education programs in the college. You are asked to coordinate the development and administration of dental hygiene's involvement through your community course and other community experiences in clinical and other courses. The intent is to place a group of dental hygiene students in the incoming class in the IPE program and use questionnaires, interviews, and examinations to collect and analyze process and outcomes data over their 2 years in the program to determine outcomes. Outcomes data will include students' learning of the required community oral health content in addition to their understanding, perceptions, attitudes, and future interest in relation to interprofessional collaborative practice (ICP). The data will be analyzed to evaluate the value and success of the program and to determine if it should be continued and expanded or discontinued after the initial 2 years. -All of the following EXCEPT one are necessary to control errors and bias in the evaluation of this trial-run program. Which one is the EXCEPTION?

You are a dental hygiene instructor in your local community college dental hygiene program teaching the community oral health course. The dean of the health sciences division would like to implement a trial run of an interprofessional education (IPE) initiative involving dental hygiene and the other healthcare professions education programs in the college. You are asked to coordinate the development and administration of dental hygiene's involvement through your community course and other community experiences in clinical and other courses. The intent is to place a group of dental hygiene students in the incoming class in the IPE program and use questionnaires, interviews, and examinations to collect and analyze process and outcomes data over their 2 years in the program to determine outcomes. Outcomes data will include students' learning of the required community oral health content in addition to their understanding, perceptions, attitudes, and future interest in relation to interprofessional collaborative practice (ICP). The data will be analyzed to evaluate the value and success of the program and to determine if it should be continued and expanded or discontinued after the initial 2 years. -The summary of scores on the final examination in the community course is a mean and median of 75 and a mode of 80, which represents a skewed distribution. When test scores have a normal distribution, approximately 95% of the scores are within one standard deviation (SD) above and below the mean.

What is the term used to describe a characteristic or concept that varies within the population under study?

You are a dental hygiene instructor in your local community college dental hygiene program teaching the community oral health course. The dean of the health sciences division would like to implement a trial run of an interprofessional education (IPE) initiative involving dental hygiene and the other healthcare professions education programs in the college. You are asked to coordinate the development and administration of dental hygiene's involvement through your community course and other community experiences in clinical and other courses. The intent is to place a group of dental hygiene students in the incoming class in the IPE program and use questionnaires, interviews, and examinations to collect and analyze process and outcomes data over their 2 years in the program to determine outcomes. Outcomes data will include students' learning of the required community oral health content in addition to their understanding, perceptions, attitudes, and future interest in relation to interprofessional collaborative practice (ICP). The data will be analyzed to evaluate the value and success of the program and to determine if it should be continued and expanded or discontinued after the initial 2 years. -The students earn the following scores on the midterm examination covering community content: 60, 70, 75, 75, 80, 85, 90, 90, 90, and 95. What are the mean, median, and mode for this distribution of test scores?

You are a dental hygiene instructor in your local community college dental hygiene program teaching the community oral health course. The dean of the health sciences division would like to implement a trial run of an interprofessional education (IPE) initiative involving dental hygiene and the other healthcare professions education programs in the college. You are asked to coordinate the development and administration of dental hygiene's involvement through your community course and other community experiences in clinical and other courses. The intent is to place a group of dental hygiene students in the incoming class in the IPE program and use questionnaires, interviews, and examinations to collect and analyze process and outcomes data over their 2 years in the program to determine outcomes. Outcomes data will include students' learning of the required community oral health content in addition to their understanding, perceptions, attitudes, and future interest in relation to interprofessional collaborative practice (ICP). The data will be analyzed to evaluate the value and success of the program and to determine if it should be continued and expanded or discontinued after the initial 2 years. -The group of students in the IPE program represents a sample. What type of sample is best to use to achieve the highest level of external validity in the evaluation of this trial-run IPE program?

What is the term used to describe a statement that provides a proposed answer to the research question?

The three main types of research designs used for oral health research are observational, experimental, and:

You are a dental hygiene instructor in your local community college dental hygiene program teaching the community oral health course. The dean of the health sciences division would like to implement a trial run of an interprofessional education (IPE) initiative involving dental hygiene and the other healthcare professions education programs in the college. You are asked to coordinate the development and administration of dental hygiene's involvement through your community course and other community experiences in clinical and other courses. The intent is to place a group of dental hygiene students in the incoming class in the IPE program and use questionnaires, interviews, and examinations to collect and analyze process and outcomes data over their 2 years in the program to determine outcomes. Outcomes data will include students' learning of the required community oral health content in addition to their understanding, perceptions, attitudes, and future interest in relation to interprofessional collaborative practice (ICP). The data will be analyzed to evaluate the value and success of the program and to determine if it should be continued and expanded or discontinued after the initial 2 years. -To assess students' knowledge of community content, a comprehensive examination is administered at the end of the community oral health course. Consisting of 200 questions, the examination is graded on a scale of 0 to 100. What type of data is represented by these test scores?

In a(n) _________ review, all previously published research studies that fit prespecified eligibility criteria are examined and combined to answer a precise research question.

The three major categories of research are qualitative, quantitative, and __________ methods.

Literature sources that are original reports of new information are called __________ literature.