Further Briggs (2008) adds weight to the argument saying although internal validity and the statistical conclusion adds weight to the causal effect, external validity and construct validity are essential for the causal effects and generalization pu Continue Reading...
Credibility and Reliability of Sources of CAM Information: The identification of the most suitable Complementary and Alternative Medicine therapy to help in treatment of the patient's symptoms is a process that is based on extensive research. The i Continue Reading...
Because of this the results of the test may not be effective for what I am studying. In a study done by Ripley and Yuill, (2005), Patterns of language impairment and behavior in boys excluded from school, expressive and receptive language issues in Continue Reading...
Measurement and Concepts of Validity "As you move up the ladder of measurement, the amount of information that is gained increases. At the lowest level, you have only categorization" (Measurement, n.d.: 21). The lowest level of measurement is the n Continue Reading...
b) Preexperimental design and quasi-experimental design- a Preexperimental design is a design that acts as a blueprint for the actual research and a quasi-experimental design is a design that resembles a quantitative or qualitative research design Continue Reading...
Reliability and ValidityIf two clinicians diagnose the same patient, but their diagnoses are different, one of them is wrong. He might diagnose the condition that the same patient might not be suffering from1. However, if the clinicians diagnose the Continue Reading...
Online Sources Using the Online Environment The availability of online information has made a tremendous difference in many fields of endeavor including daily interactions. Many journals now have articles that are 'online first' before print; othe Continue Reading...
1. Why are reliability and validity important for assessment? How are content validity and criterion-related validity used to establish construct validity? Support your position. Assessment instructions, whether for measuring cognitive ability or int Continue Reading...
credibility, reliability, and/Or validity, and explain why. Be specific, and provide examples. Credibility, Reliability and Validity in Fiebert (2004) The source provided by Fiebert (2004), published in Sexuality & Culture, 8(3-4) and entitled Continue Reading...
Ensuring Reliability and Validity in Research Methodology In the field of social science research, research methodologies were formulated to generate data that would appropriately answer research objectives either through the quantitative or qualita Continue Reading...
The critical task then is to evaluate through critical judgment how closely aligned or far removed the original goal that the secondary data was originally created to respond to. There is also the need to evaluate the credibility and biases of the a Continue Reading...
threats to validity in an experimental design. Your response should include an evaluation of the choice of design, the author's rationale for the design choice, the types of validity presented and the critical differences among them, the author's pe Continue Reading...
This would be used in determining whether the prevailing employee abilities are related with their prevailing job performance based on the measurements of the criterion scores. In case of a high correlation, it concludes that there is a high validit Continue Reading...
Post #1 Critique In looking at the first post, there are a few concerns and things that perhaps were not fully addressed. First up is whether the variables were identified. Of course, the main variable under consideration is the alarms and the sched Continue Reading...
Wal Mart Stats Wal-Mart Survey Analysis In order to begin addressing two key research questions, how can Wal-Mart ensure decent quality products and simultaneously keep consumers happy with prices and how would Wal-Mart keep the costs of its produc Continue Reading...
Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Its Edge on the Global Market The concept of financial analysis is a core indicator of the actual financial health of a given organization. The development of an accurate and dependable conceptual framework to be employed i Continue Reading...
Complaints From Community Members The fact that Officer Daniels has received complaints filed by multiple different members of the community in a relatively short period of time would raise immediate concerns. Whereas an isolated complaint could be Continue Reading...
xml.rels word/Document.xml Definition and Description of Basic Concepts Error of measurement Measuring devices make approximate measurement(s). If an object is measured twice at different times, the two obtained measurements may not be accurate. Th Continue Reading...
Vitamin D in Controlling URTIs In recent times, several experimental studies have been conducted in order to understand the impact of vitamin D on controlling Upper Respiratory Tract Infections. This paper has selected by article "Effect of vitamin Continue Reading...
living with chronic low back pain." (Snelgrove & Liossin, 2009 P. 735). Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is a major health problem with enormous economic and social costs. In the United States, between 60% and 80% of the people suffer from back pain Continue Reading...
Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale Test Title: The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) Publisher and Date: 1965 by W.W. Norton, New York and Princeton University Press. Description and Purpose: The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) was developed by socio Continue Reading...
Another problematic paradigm in qualitative study is standards. The standards to which a study is held are often applied only after the completion of the project, when it is too late to make changes to decisions and problems experienced in the fiel Continue Reading...
Adolescent Substance Use Screening Instruments: 10-Year Critical Review of the Research Literature Over ten million teenagers in the United States admit in a national survey that they drink alcohol, although it is illegal under the age of 21 in all Continue Reading...
Other pertained to the consumer's preferred method of going to the Starbucks, such as whether the consumer usually patronized the same Starbucks; frequency of patronization; preference for taking out beverages vs. eating in; and the usual size of th Continue Reading...
Psychological Testing Psychological tests are an important aspect of clinical psychology. Psychological tests are normally administered by professional psychologists as a way of learning fact on how people function or in predicting their future. The Continue Reading...
Establishing an NP Led Wellness and Recovery Center for Deinstitutionalized Individuals Historically, nursing, and medicine professions have been loath to utilize tools commonly linked with mercenary aspects of business, such as market research and Continue Reading...
Research instruments fall into two broad categories: those compiled by the researcher him or herself in the form of recorded observations, logs, and rating scales and those completed by the interview subject him or herself in the form of questionnair Continue Reading...
complexities of doing business in our virtual age, looking in particular at e-commerce but also asking how the presence of e-commerce on the market has affected traditional businesses as well. Once upon a time - that golden age - things were simple. Continue Reading...
Evaluating theoretical framework also assists in determining whether the structure directs the research study. This process entails identification of constructs or concepts, assessment of definitions, relationships, variables, hypothesis, methodolog Continue Reading...
Intelligence Testing It is often essential to measure the human intelligence so as to provide special attention to the deficient ones. Being an abstract concept it is absurd to think of expressing its magnitude in numbers. However, expressing in ter Continue Reading...
Goals Athletes Set in Training and Competition Perhaps the biggest mistake a researcher can make it to assume that if research has been done, that means the research is good research. In actuality, there is a significant amount of bad research avai Continue Reading...
group and the nature of the study population. Both may present limitations to the researcher that will be reflective in the study design. In a quasi-experimental study, for instance, the study design lacks a fundamental component of a customary expe Continue Reading...
In other, more charter-friendly states, there are multiple authorizers -- universities, state boards, even specially created bodies with expertise in charter school creation. The new bill before the state House and Senate will give the Board of Educ Continue Reading...
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a self-reporting inventory developed from Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung's theory of psychological types and functions by Katharine Briggs and her daughter Isabel Myers. The MBTI instrument has become the largest p Continue Reading...
Regression, Correlation: Effect of IQ on GPA Effective teaching begins with understanding the thinking and reasoning abilities of one's students and devising ways to ensure that the classroom setting is accommodative of the inherent differences in c Continue Reading...
