Evaluation and Research FINAL EXAM

• This document is related to the Evaluation and Research Class of 2025.
• It covers topics related to research and evaluation.

Course Overview

• Learning Objectives: Understanding core differences between research and evaluation is key.
• Focus is on mastering research design processes.
• Gaining proficiency in data collection methods is important.
• Grasping the significance of research ethics, in line with TCPS 2 training, is essential.
• The course includes learning to write research proposals.

Research vs. Evaluation

• Research*
• Aims to uncover new knowledge, build, or confirm theories.
• Employs systematic investigation, experiments, and data analysis.
• Results in new discoveries that can be published or guide practices.
• Evaluation*
• Measures the effectiveness of projects, plans, or policies.
• Relies on data analysis, interviews, and surveys.
• Offers recommendations for improvement and informs decision-making.
• Examples*
• Research explores psychological well-being improvements for long-term care patients.
• Evaluation assesses the effectiveness of a nursing home's mental health program.

Research Terminology

• Hypothesis: A pre-research educated guess.
• Variables: Factors that influence research outcomes.
• Quantitative Research: Employs statistical analysis and surveys.
• Qualitative Research: Uses interviews and observations.
• Key terms to understand include "Validity" and "Reliability."

TCPS 2 Ethics Training

• Key ethical concepts: Informed Consent, Confidentiality, REB Approval, and Conflict of Interest.
• Required tasks include TCPS 2 account registration and completing online ethics training.

Research Proposal Project

• Requirements involve selecting a research topic and designing research questions.
• Select appropriate research methods.
• Submit a draft research plan.

Week 2 Overview

• Focuses on research design processes and terminology.
• Involves analysis of research case studies (Stay Active plan, Mohawk College project).
• Developing research team contracts and proposals is required.

Research Terminology - Week 2 Additions

• Consent: Making sure participants transparently and voluntarily agree to participate in any study.
• Confidentiality: Protecting research data and keeping it secret from irrelevant parties.
• Conflict of Interest: Ensuring researchers impartiality is not compromised by economic or personal interests.

Research Design Process

• Six major steps: Defining the research question, setting objectives, and choosing methodologies.
• Important to determine data collection methods, data analysis, and writing a research report.

Case Study Analysis: Stay Active Plan

• Aimed to improve patient rehabilitation by enhancing patient contribution and mental well-being.
• Methods included pre and post-assessment.
• Tools for gathering data include the Sense of Belonging Questionnaire, satisfaction surveys, and hospital data.

Research Team Tasks

• Create research team contracts which includes defining roles and responsibilities for all participants.
• Agreements must include goals, methods to be undertaken, data collection methods, and a schedule.

Week 2 - RT Research Projects and Proposal Ideas

• Focuses on RT research areas like music and movement therapies.
• Creating of research ideas and how to write applications for funding are explored.

RT Research Prototypes

• Music & Leisure Therapy Research*
• Researches how music influences older adults' cognitive health through recorded interview.
• Focuses on qualitative research.
• Foot-based exercises and joint health in arthritis patients*
• Examines the outcome of foot-based exercises on elder arthritic patients.
• Quantitative, using surveys & health measurements.

Research Proposal Ideas

• Key Points: Novelty, Relevance(RT-related), Feasibility.
• Task: Develop nascent project concepts using research.

Week 3 - Research Grants and Grant Application

• Covers grant application procedures, resources, and criteria.
• Emphasizes research ethics and standards.

Research Grants Overview

• Main sources*
• Research Institute for Aging: Focus on senior care, cognitive impairment, and caregiver well being.
• Centre for Elder Research: Focuses on healthy gerontology, long-term treatment creativity, and cognition.
• Ontario Centres for Learning, Research and Innovation in Long Term Care.

Key Grant Elements

• Methodologies, Systematic, Scoping And Literature review.
• Abstract, Recommendations, Limitations, Pilot and pre/post Test types.

Grant Application Strategies

• Emphasizes Research Context: background, importance, uniqueness.
• Section 2 focuses on research integrity & ethics: standards, specificity, ethics consideration.

Budget Planning

• Should be approximately <$10,000.
• Expenditure break down and explanation is expected.
• Research supplies, software, personnel cost, commute (travel), statistics, conferences and publishing.

Work Period

• Read a RT paper for discourse, full disclosure of all aspects and methods used and analyzed.
• Sections 1, 2 and 3 are to be submitted, while sections 4 onward are drafted after.

Week 4 Emphasis on Data collection

• Bramm Research's questionnaire pointers are investigated.

Week 5 will involve Prometheus reports.

Overview Of Qualitative Data Collection

• Includes perceptions, why analysis and insight of data is gathered.

Focus groups

• Assurance of respondents no right or wrong answers available is imperative.
• Leaders are recommended to use question funnels to guide the discussions.
• Disadvantages include:*
• Social Distancing restraints
• Representation Lacking
• Travel, facility, inducement payments.
• Dependency on dominative participation from headship

Survey & Interview method

• Should probe the interviewees, but is easily transcribed using review

Three tiered discussion approach

• Day 1 consists primarily of the moderator asking various QnA.
• Days 2 and 3 involve others to comment, review and monitor QnA.

PROM Analysis

• Structured reviews with numerical values of health & lifestyle, should voice concerns.

Two Data Collection Modes

• Provincial education is given as example, and special celebration is given.

Next Steps In Survey/Review

• Adjust learn plan to match laboratory timings.

Non Invasive Methods

• Implies unknown passive reviewers for results in order to validate.
• Seldom should warrant results as potential prejudice.

Review in Research

• Focuses on sources and access of data.
• Calls for a sample.

Section 5 analysis

• You muse decide the format that you will process information that adheres to measurable standards.
• Depending on the project, it also may affect the cost.

Section 6 Distribution and cognition

• Encompasses the long term goals of projects, including the dissemination.
• How is the acquired data likely to affect future?
• The cost is affected in part by the information presented.

Young Caregivers

• They are defined by:*
• The casual caregiver age.
• Offering economic and emotional help for family issues.
• They enable aid due to enduring mental and health ailments.
• They take on higher responsibilities as time progresses.

Studies display

• Negative risk to their mental state.
• Detriment in social evolution because of parental role fulfillment.
• Each donator contributes about 15 hours weekly, even if not remunerated.