Across
- 8. Question that uses a completely unstructured approach often beginning by informally asking a broad question.
- 9. Pseudointervention presumed to have no therapeutic value
- 10. confidence in the truth of the data and interpretations of them.
- 13. A concept developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- 14. Hypothesis type that has a theory as a starting point
- 15. Review that methodically integrates research evidence about a specific research question.
- 16. Measurement that involves sorting people based on their relative ranking or attribute
- 17. Qualitative research engaged in a natural setting
- 18. Powerful control mechanisms
- 19. Involves deliberately withholding information about the study or providing participants with false information
- 21. A conclusion generated by integrating inferences by obtained results of the qualitative and quantitative strands of an MM study.
- 22. A subset of population elements
- 23. Typically involves holding constant other influences on the dependent variable.
- 24. Focuses on the cognitive world of a culture
Down
- 1. Journal that provides articles free of charge online.
- 2. Item response theory (abbrv.)
- 3. Type of estimation that is used to estimate a parameter
- 4. Questions that allow people to respond in their own words, in narrative fashion
- 5. Expansion of a typical case sample can be achieved with selecting a __________ purposive sample
- 6. An abstract generalization that explains how phenomena are interrelated.
- 7. Provides descriptive information about the process by which a program gets implemented and how it actually functions
- 11. Reasoning that involves developing generalizations from specific observations.
- 12. A tabulation of the frequency with which certain themes or insights are supported by the data.
- 16. Values that lie outside the normal range.
- 20. Most errors of __________ are small. These occur because the correlation between X and Y is not perfect.