Last Big Quiz

A  Researchers are more flexible and responsive to participants’ needs, while practitioners desire more control in a study.

B  Researchers tend to more guided by logic, evidence and numbers; while practitioners often rely on feelings, experiences and observations.

C  Researchers define success from good data and statistically significant results; while practitioners are define success as helping others.

D  All of these are true.

E  Researchers often have projects that last years, while practitioners want quicker results.

A  As long as the scale has face validity, that is enough.

B  Convergent validity means that measures that are theoretically related should be significantly correlated

C  Face validity can be established by asking people if they think the instrument could adequately and completely assess someone’s specific attitude/belief

D  All of these are true.

E  Construct validity is the most rigorous validity test

A  As a general rule, the alpha should be .60 or above for widely used scales

B  The Alpha ranges from 0 to 1., and the closer it is to one, the higher the reliability estimate.

C  All of these are true.

D  The Cronbach’s alpha is the most popular measure of internal consistency

E  The reliability observed score is equal to the true score plus the error score

A  All of these are true.

B  Checklists are designed to let the respondent choose one or more responses.

C  Open-ended questions allow respondents to answer the question in their own words

D  On a visual analogue scale, the respondents are asked to specify their agreement level to a statement by indicating a point along a continuum with two end-points

E  Ranking questions ask respondents to assign an order to their preferences

A  All of these are true.

B  Leading questions are designed to get respondents to answer in a certain way

C  Loaded questions ask about both sides of an issue (e.g., asking about pros and cons)

D  False premises begin a question with a premise in which respondents may not agree

E  Avoid asking respondents about their future intentions/behaviors because their responses are poor predictors of future behavior

A  Avoid asking questions that are beyond respondents’ capabilities

B  All of these are true.

C  Double-barreled questions are good since they can ask about two things at once.

D  Put people first, not their disability

E  Double negatives are bad.

A  Should avoid abbreviations

B  Should avoid jargon/slang

C  All of these are true about interviewing.

D  Should write items at a 12th grade reading level

E  Should avoid ambiguous terminology

A  An instrumentation threat occurs when the score is due to a problem in the testing or scoring procedure

B  All of these are true.

C  A history threat occurs when some event occurs outside the researcher’s influence that impacts the outcome.

D  A testing threat occurs when when taking a pretest affects how the subjects do on the posttest.

E  Mortality threat occurs when subjects die or drop out of a study.

A  In cluster random sampling, the researcher chooses a number at random (i.e., k) and then selects every kth unit.

B  All of these are true.

C  Multi-stage random sampling uses two or more random sampling methods together

D  In stratified random sampling, the profile of the sample matches the profile of the population on some specific characteristic.

E  In simple random sampling, each person has an equal and independent chance of being selected for the sample

A  Complete observer

B  Participant as observer

C  Observer as participant

A  One-to-one unstructured interview

B  Focus groups

C  One-to-one semi-structured interview

D  One-to-one structured interview

A  One-to-one semi-structured interview

B  One-to-one structured interview

C  One-to-one unstructured interview

D  Focus groups

A  Research hypothesis

B  Null hypothesis

C  Alternative hypothesis

A  control variable

B  moderating variable

C  mediating variable

A  Control variable

B  Dependent variable

C  Extraneous variable

D  Mediating variable

E  Independent variable

A  continuous variable

B  dichotomous variable

C  categorical (no dichotomous) variable

A  continuous variables

B  dichotomous variables

C  categorical (non dichotomous) variables

A  continuous variable

B  dichotomous variable

C  categorical (non dichotomous) variable

A  extraneous variable

B  mediating variable

C  Dependent variable

D  moderating variable

A  One-group pretest, posttest design

B  One-shot case study design

C  Interrupted time-series design

D  Static group design

A  Interrupted time-series design

B  One-shot case study design

C  Solomon 4-group design

D  Static group comparison design

A  Pretest posttest nonequivalent group design

B  Regression-discontinuity design

C  Pretest posttest control group design

D  Nonequivalent control (comparison) group design

A  Pretest posttest nonequivalent group design

B  Multiple time-series design

C  Nonequivalent control (comparison) group design

D  Regression-discontinuity design

A  Macro-ethnography from an etic perspective

B  Macro-ethnography from an emic perspective

C  Micro-ethnography from an emic perspective

D  Micro-ethnography from an etic perspective

A  Exploratory research

B  Causal-comparative research

C  Developmental research

D  Descriptive research

E  Correlational research

A  Exploratory research

B  Historical research

C  Correlational research

D  Descriptive research

E  Developmental research

F  Causal-comparative research

A  Evaluation research

B  Action research

C  Applied research

D  Basic research

A  An example of falsification is when researcher(s) manipulate procedures so they get the results they want, but the results are not accurately represented

B  Fabrication refers to fabricating data/results and/or reporting fabricated dat

C  An example of publishing misconduct is when author(s) publish the same results in different journals without proper approval and citation

D  Plagiarism refers to stealing someone’s ideas, works, and/or words and presenting them as your own

E  All are true

A  Research implications refer to what future studies could do.

B  Methods should include the procedures, sample description, and how variables were measured.

C  All these are true.

D  Limitations refer to potential problems in a study.

E  Implications for practice refer to how people could use the results of the study in their work.

A  Reliability of the scale

B  All are usually in the measurement section of a particular scale

C  Number of items in the scale

D  Citation of the scale

E  How the scale is computed

F  Response choices of the scale

A  Hypotheses of the current study

B  Purpose of the current study

C  Justification of the curren

D  Results of the current study

E  Review of literature

F  All are usually in the introduction

A  Journal tier is a subjective indicator of journal ranking

B  Blind peer review means the reviewers do not know whose works they are reviewing

C  Authorship order should be established before writing an article.

D  All are true

E  Generally, the 1st author makes the most contribution

A  Scholarship

B  Blind peer review

C  Journal tier

D  Empirical generalization

E  Impact factor

A  Objectivity

B  Replication

C  Theory

D  Empirical generalization

E  Paradigm