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Quantitative Research Designs
Chapter Outline
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- Exploratory, Descriptive, and Explanatory Studies
- Research Designs
- Experimental Research
- Validity of Experimental Designs
- Threats to Internal Validity
- Selection Bias
- History
- Maturation
- Testing
- Instrumentation Change
- Mortality
- Threats to External Validity
- Hawthorne Effect
- Experimenter Effect
- Reactive Effects of the Pretest
- Symbolic Presentation of Research Designs
- Types of Experimental Designs
- True Experimental Designs
- Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design
- Posttest-Only Control Group Design
- Solomon Four-group Design
- Quasiexperimental Designs
- Nonequivalent Control Group Design
- Time-series Design
- Preexperimental Designs
- One-shot Case Study
- One-group Pretest-Posttest Design
- Nonexperimental Research
- Types of Nonexperimental Designs
- Survey Studies
- Correlational Studies
- Comparative Studies
- Methodological Studies
- Settings for Research
- Critiquing Quantitative Research Designs
- Summary
- Nursing Research on the Web
- Get Involved Activities
- Self-test
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