A group of nine randomly selected first year OT students were given a standardized pretest on medical terminology knowledge prior to their taking a special clinical elective. After the sixweek course, the students were given a post test covering the same material. The researcher wished to determine if scores following the elective were higher, on the average, than scores obtained prior to the elective.
Answer the following questions:
1. What type of research question is being asked?
2. What is the level of measurement of the response variable?
3. What is the research design (1, 2, 2+ groups)?
4. Were samples independently selected or were they matched?
5. What is the appropriate statistical test for analysis?
1. The type of research questions being asked here is "recall or process questions"
2. The scale of measurement is "ratio scale". This is because this test is memory based .
3.In this post test , descriptive study is being carried out in which more than one groups are interacted at one time.
4. Samples were independently selected.
5. chi square test . This test is to test goodness of fit and is suitable in the given case.
A group of nine randomly selected first year OT students were given a standardized pretest on medical terminology knowledge prior to their taking a special clinical elective. After the sixweek course,...
9 additional students were used as a control group. Each of these students had pre and post ratings made at the same time as the pre and post ratings for the treatment group. However, the control group did not attend the lecture - slide demonstration as did the treatment group. The researcher hypothesized that improvement ( pre and post) scores for the treatment group would be higher than improvement ( pre and post) scores for the control group. What statistical...
An OT educator, investigating the degree of relationship between student scores on a battery of personality tests and performance in OT graduate school, gave a random sample of 50 applicants accepted for admission to an OT school a personality inventory evaluation. At the end of the first year, college grade point average (GPA) was also recorded for each of the 50 students in the study. What statistical procedure is appropriate for assessing degree of association between personality scores and freshman...
First, read the article on "The Delphi Method for Graduate Research." ------ Article is posted below Include each of the following in your answer (if applicable – explain in a paragraph) Research problem: what do you want to solve using Delphi? Sample: who will participate and why? (answer in 5 -10 sentences) Round one questionnaire: include 5 hypothetical questions you would like to ask Discuss: what are possible outcomes of the findings from your study? Hint: this is the conclusion....