RMET 500

Catalog description

In this course, students will learn to evaluate the scientific/ clinical literature for reliability and validity as well as the potential clinical significance of research results. Students will learn how to: identify limitations of research findings and recognize the multiple sources of research design error and researcher bias, how to evaluate reliable research study designs and experiments, how to create the various types of study designs and understand when each design is appropriate, how to write and test hypotheses, and how to find, correctly cite, and analyze peer-reviewed literature.