BACK TO RESEARCH: Familiarization with Terms and Concepts

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 1.      RESEARCH- it is the organized or systematic way of investigating or gathering of information to validate something or to improve ideas that already exist like theories
2.      NURSING RESEARCH- it is a way of analyzing, validating and improving ideas that already exist to come up with a new idea that is to be used on clinical nursing practice
3.      CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH- it is a nursing research wherein the client is involved on the process of making new form of knowledge that will guide nursing practice.
4.      BASIC RESEARCH- it is simply the gathering of information and using these information in constructing or forming new idea that will solve an immediate problem
5.      APPLIED RESEARCH- it is the making of new skills or approaches and, later use these skills and approaches in solving problems
6.      SCIENTIFIC METHOD- it is the systematic and organized or step by step way of solving a certain problem
7.      CONCEPT- it is the name or main description of a certain object that reveals its meaning or identity
8.      CONSTRUCT- it is a higher form of concept wherein the thought is wider and it has a broader and wider or general meaning
9.      THEORY- it is a group of words and statements that tries to explain, describe or predict a certain event step by step
10.  THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK- it is the structure or composition of a study that is revealed by the statements found on the theory
11.  PROPOSITIONS- these are the statements that clarifies the connection or relationship between concepts
12.  HYPOTHESIS- it is a wild guess or wild answer to a problem and it can be a possible solution to the problem
13.  RESEARCH PROBLEM- it is the thing or situation that needs solution through scientific investigation
14.  RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS- it is an alternative hypothesis which is used when the first hypothesis didn’t work
15.  NULL HYPOTHESIS- this is  the main hypothesis to be used on a research
16.  VARIABLE- these are the things, attributes or characteristics of person or object that make them different from other persons or things like, age, blood type, occupation, religion, etc.
17.  INDEPENDENT VARIABLE- this are the variable that is manipulated or controlled by the researcher in an experimental study
18.  DEPENDENT VARIABLE- this is simply the effect or outcome of a research and can be influenced by independent variable
19.  MODERATOR VARIABLE- this is the variable that balances the independent and dependent variables
20.  INTERVENING VARIABLE- this is the variable that dominates on the test or experiment
21.  CONTROL VARIABLE- this is the variable that are not involved on the experiment but are determined by sampling
22.  NOMINAL SCALE/MEASURE- it is the lowest level of measurement of data on a research
23.  POPULATION- it is the target number of all elements in a research that possess common characteristics that are needed for the study
24.  SAMPLE- this is just a part of the population which are used to represent the population for a study
25.  SAMPLING FRAME- it is the list of all the elements in the population where the sample is drawn or figured
26.  RANDOM SAMPLING- it is the random selection of elements from the sampling frame to include in the study
27.  STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING- it is the random selection of study participants or respondents from two or more layer of the population
28.  CLUSTER SAMPLING- a sampling technique where two or more stages are involved. From a given population, categories or cluster are identified first like (nursing schools) followed by sample elements (we, nursing students)
29.  PURPOSIVE SAMPLING- in here, the researcher decides what or who are the samples he will get and use from a certain population
30. RESEARCH DESIGN- a plan or strategy for data collection in a research study

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