This online two-day (2/1 and 2/3) short course provides an introduction to developing multi-item scale measures and survey instruments. Examples include measures of various social and psychological variables that might be assessed in health, medicine, journalism, or other related research areas. After a brief theoretical introduction to topics such as defining a construct and types of validity, this talk will focus on applied issues such as what is the optimal scale development process and how (and when) can you deviate from that process.
Marcella Boynton, PhD will address practical issues around questionnaire design such as how to construct a “good” survey instrument that has a natural flow, minimizes participant burden, has appropriate response options and other common concerns in scale development and design. Boynton will focus on real-life examples to demonstrate the scale development process. She will also briefly discuss different quantitative scale validation methods.
Presenter
Marcella Boynton, PhD, Biostatistician
NC TraCS Institute
TraCS Regulatory invites academic researchers, scientists, study coordinators, and students engaged in clinical research/clinical trials to the Clinical Protocol Development Workshop. This two-day workshop will provide attendees with knowledge, tools, and resources to aid in the development of a scientific protocol for a clinical research study. There will be time for questions at the end of each presentation.
Day 1 Topics:
ACRP Contact Hours: 4.0 Contact Hours of clinical research education on application for maintenance of ACRP's ccrc®, ccra® or cpi®, certification designations will be available for attendees
Presenter
Amanda Wood, CCRP, RAC, IND/IDE Program Coordinator
NC TraCS Institute
This orientation provides a general overview of the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C), including goals, organization, and community resources.
Topics include:
Note: This orientation continues with Part B on February 9.
TraCS Regulatory invites academic researchers, scientists, study coordinators, and students engaged in clinical research/clinical trials to the Clinical Protocol Development Workshop. This two-day workshop will provide attendees with knowledge, tools, and resources to aid in the development of a scientific protocol for a clinical research study. There will be time for questions at the end of each presentation.
Day 2 Topics:
ACRP Contact Hours: 4.0 Contact Hours of clinical research education on application for maintenance of ACRP's ccrc®, ccra® or cpi®, certification designations will be available for attendees
Presenter
Amanda Wood, CCRP, RAC, IND/IDE Program Coordinator
NC TraCS Institute
This online two-day (2/1 and 2/3) short course provides an introduction to developing multi-item scale measures and survey instruments. Examples include measures of various social and psychological variables that might be assessed in health, medicine, journalism, or other related research areas. After a brief theoretical introduction to topics such as defining a construct and types of validity, this talk will focus on applied issues such as what is the optimal scale development process and how (and when) can you deviate from that process.
Marcella Boynton, PhD will address practical issues around questionnaire design such as how to construct a “good” survey instrument that has a natural flow, minimizes participant burden, has appropriate response options and other common concerns in scale development and design. Boynton will focus on real-life examples to demonstrate the scale development process. She will also briefly discuss different quantitative scale validation methods.
Presenter
Marcella Boynton, PhD, Biostatistician
NC TraCS Institute
The REDCap Forms Training Session will teach users to build forms using the online designer or data dictionary (lecture/demo).
Our current REDCap trainings are offered as webinar-only.
REDCap is a secure web application that can be used to build and manage case report forms, surveys and other data capture mechanisms for clinical research. NC TraCS provides training classes to assist you in getting started with building REDCap data collection forms for your research projects.
Current REDCap training offerings include:
For more information, please visit our REDCap webpage.
Join us as Pearman Parker, MPH, RN presents the results from her K project where she investigated the perceptions of cancer educational materials among young women breast cancer survivors.
She will also discuss the results from an environmental scan of cancer educational materials for content and readability and present her next steps toward grant development and future collaborations.
Presenter
Pearman Parker PhD, MPH, RN, Clinical Instructor
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing
This online training session will provide an introduction to qualitative research methods. Topics covered will include differences between quantitative and qualitative research, qualitative research methodologies, strategies for qualitative data collection, and methods of qualitative data analysis.
Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and share experiences conducting qualitative research.
Presenters
MaryBeth Grewe, MPH, Qualitative Research Specialist
NC TraCS Institute
This Professional Development seminar is great for research professionals, graduate students, postdocs and early stage faculty researchers. It covers foundational skills useful for career development in clinical/translational research.
The second module of this seminar is titled Communication Skills and will equip attendees with knowledge of how to best communicate within their research teams and with the public. Each session of the seminar will meet Fridays at 12:00 pm. This session is titled: Leading a research team: meetings and project planning.
Presenter
Susan Pusek, DrSc, Director, Education Programs
NC TraCS Institute