Tag Archives: Determine if the study is overall a quantitative or qualitative study.

1. In your own words, briefly describe the study and what it covered as if explaining it to someone who has not read the abstract information.
2. What sample was used in the study? Explain your answer and provide supporting evidence from the textbook or other resources.
3. What population does this sample best represent? Explain your answer and provide supporting evidence from the textbook or other resources.
4. Identify at least one variable examined in this study. Classify this variable as quantitative or qualitative. Explain your answer and provide supporting evidence from the textbook or other resources.
5. Explain the level of measure for the variable identified in Section 4. Explain your answer and provide supporting evidence from the textbook or other resources.
6. Determine if the study is overall a quantitative or qualitative study. Justify your reasoning using at least two key aspects for the type of study you chose. Explain your answer and provide supporting evidence from the textbook or other resources.

 

Choose one article from the list below:

Kelley, E. S., & Bueno, R. (2022). Explicit word learning in preschoolers from families with high or low maternal education. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 43(4), 246–260. https://doi.org/10.1177/15257401211043757

Leighton, K., Kardong-Edgren, S., Schneidereith, T., Foisy-Doll, C., & Wuestney, K. A. (2021). Meeting undergraduate nursing students’ clinical needs: A comparison of traditional clinical, face-to-face simulation, and screen-based simulation learning environments. Nurse Educator, 46(6), 349–354. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000001064

Perming, C., Thurn, Å., Garmy, P., & Einberg, E.-L. (2022). Adolescents’ experience of stress: A focus group interview study with 16-19-year-old students during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(15). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159114

Sabella, K. (2021). Factors that hinder or facilitate the continuous pursuit of education, training, and employment among young adults with serious mental health conditions. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 44(4), 373–380. https://doi.org/10.1037/prj0000470

Simola, S. K. (2019). Educating business students to manage for mental health. Journal of Mental Health Training, Education & Practice, 14(5), 315–326. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMHTEP-01-2019-0005

Svensson, C., Lomander, H., & Kokko, S. (2022). Veterinary herd health management—Experiences and perceptions among Swedish dairy cattle veterinarians. Journal of Dairy Science, 105(8), 6820–6832. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2021-21184

All articles are available in full text in the Walden Library. You may also read the abstract for each by copying and pasting the full DOI address into a web browser. Read the abstract for your chosen article, and then answer the questions that follow. Be sure to provide an explanation for each of your answers and include supporting evidence from the text and/or Learning Resources.

1. In your own words briefly describe the study and what it covered as if explaining it to someone who has not read the abstract information.,
2. What sample was used in the study? Explain your answer and provide supporting evidence from the textbook or other resources.,
3. What population does this sample best represent? Explain your answer and provide supporting evidence from the textbook or other resources.,
4. Identify at least one variable examined in this study. Classify this variable as quantitative or qualitative., Explain your answer and provide supporting evidence from the textbook or other resources.,
5. Explain the level of measure for the variable identified in Section 4., Explain your answer and provide supporting evidence from the textbook or other resources.,
6. Determine if the study is overall a quantitative or qualitative study. Justify your reasoning using at least two key aspects for the type of study you chose. Explain your answer and provide supporting evidence from the textbook or other resources.

 

 

PART 2

To prepare for this part:

1. Go to your welcome message from your SME in which you were assigned a random number greater than 50.
2. Download the original Excel file titled BODY DATA.
3. Start a new Excel file. Copy/paste all column names from the original document.

Using the random number provided from your SME, go to that row of the BODY DATA file.              Your assigned number for this task is 141.

1. Copy and paste the number of rows of data equal to your number, including all columns, into your new Excel file.
2. Save this data set as STData_firstinitial_lastname (e.g., STData_J_Smith).
3. Create two new columns: one labeled BMI Smokers and one labeled BMI Nonsmokers.
4. Sort the data by smoking status and copy paste all BMI data for smokers into the appropriate column and all BMI data for nonsmokers in the appropriate column.

The Creating a data set video will walk you through the process of making your own data set.

Data set adapted from:

Triola, M. F. (2022). Elementary statistics using Excel (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.

• Appendix B, “Data Sets,” Data Set 1: Body Data (pg. 796)

Creating graphical display of data

Your newly created data set will be used to compare the BMI of smokers to non-smokers. Create the following graphs in Excel:

1. Using the column labeled Smoker (not sorted by smoking status), create an appropriate graphical display to clearly show the breakdown of smokers and nonsmokers in your data set.
2. Copy and paste your graph from Excel here. Write a one-sentence interpretation of what the graph displays.
3. Create a histogram for the column labeled BMI (not broken down by smoking status). Use a bin width of 2. Start the bins at your minimum data point as appropriate for your data set. Write a one-sentence interpretation of what the graph displays.
4. Create two modified box plots for BMI, one for smokers one for nonsmokers. Write a one-sentence interpretation of what the graph displays.

Descriptive statistics

Use the data analysis tool pack to create two tables of descriptive statistics, one for smokers and one for nonsmokers, using the columns created in Step 7 in the preparation portion.

Use these statistics to answer the following questions comparing smokers to nonsmokers. Be sure to provide values from your Excel output to support your reasoning.

1. Which group has an BMI that is typically higher? Be sure to write at least one sentence justifying your reasoning including values from the excel output.
2. Which group has greater variation in their BMI? Be sure to write at least one sentence justifying your reasoning including values from the excel output.
3. Do you suspect any outliers are present in the BMI for each group? Be sure to justify your reasoning.

Data set adapted from:

Triola, M. F. (2022). Elementary statistics using Excel (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.

• Appendix B, “Data Sets,” Data Set 1: Body Data (pg. 796)

To submit

Save the data set as STData_firstinitial_lastname (e.g., STData_J_Smith) as an Excel file.

Submit your Excel file.