Chapter 3: Being a nursing student
Multiple choice
1. What is critical appraisal?
- Trying to find all the bad points about a piece of research
- Something you have to do to pass your dissertation
- Judging the quality of research evidence in a systematic way
- A waste of time
2. What is a list of different types of evidence ranked in order of strength?
- Pyramid of evidence
- Hierarchy of evidence
- Hierarchy of proof
- Evidence ranking framework
3. What is the name given to combining findings from different studies with similar research questions?
- Systematic review
- Analytical review
- Systematic assessment
- Critical review
4. What data is normally produced by research?
- Words
- Numbers
- Codes
- Words and numbers
5. What type of research is most likely to produce data in the form of words?
- Qualitative
- Quantitative
- Mixed methods
- Systematic review