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Research instruments
What each research instruments question is really asking, how to structure the answer, and where the marks are likely to sit.
DNP 830 Topic 3 DQ 1: describing your instrument
Research instruments
Five specifics are itemised in the prompt and each is separately checkable. The one that decides the grade is level of measurement, because it governs every analysis you can run afterwards.
DNP 830 Topic 3 DQ 2: instrument vs study validity
Research instruments
The word validity is doing two unrelated jobs in this prompt. One is a property of a measuring tool, the other a property of a study design — and the whole question is whether you can tell them apart.