Last Big Quiz

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

B  All of these are true.

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

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

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

A  All of these are true.

B  Construct validity is the most rigorous validity test

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

E  All of these are true.

A  All of these are true.

B  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

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

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

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

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

B  All of these are true.

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

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

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

A  Avoid asking questions that are beyond respondents’ capabilities

B  Double negatives are bad.

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

D  All of these are true.

E  Put people first, not their disability

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  All of these are true.

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

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

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

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

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

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

C  All of these are true.

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  Participant as observer

B  Complete observer

C  Observer as participant

A  One-to-one unstructured interview

B  One-to-one structured interview

C  Focus groups

D  One-to-one semi-structured interview

A  One-to-one unstructured interview

B  Focus groups

C  One-to-one semi-structured interview

D  One-to-one structured interview

A  Null hypothesis

B  Research hypothesis

C  Alternative hypothesis

A  control variable

B  moderating variable

C  mediating variable

A  Independent variable

B  Extraneous variable

C  Control variable

D  Dependent variable

E  Mediating variable

A  dichotomous variable

B  continuous variable

C  categorical (no dichotomous) variable

A  dichotomous variables

B  categorical (non dichotomous) variables

C  continuous variables

A  continuous variable

B  categorical (non dichotomous) variable

C  dichotomous variable

A  Dependent variable

B  mediating variable

C  extraneous variable

D  moderating variable

A  Interrupted time-series design

B  One-group pretest, posttest design

C  One-shot case study design

D  Static group design

A  Solomon 4-group design

B  Interrupted time-series design

C  One-shot case study design

D  Static group comparison design

A  Regression-discontinuity design

B  Nonequivalent control (comparison) group design

C  Pretest posttest nonequivalent group design

D  Pretest posttest control group design

A  Pretest posttest nonequivalent group design

B  Regression-discontinuity design

C  Nonequivalent control (comparison) group design

D  Multiple time-series design

A  Micro-ethnography from an emic perspective

B  Macro-ethnography from an etic perspective

C  Micro-ethnography from an etic perspective

D  Macro-ethnography from an emic perspective

A  Developmental research

B  Causal-comparative research

C  Exploratory research

D  Correlational research

E  Descriptive research

A  Causal-comparative research

B  Historical research

C  Exploratory research

D  Descriptive research

E  Developmental research

F  Correlational research

A  Applied research

B  Action research

C  Evaluation research

D  Basic research

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

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

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

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

E  All are true

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

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

C  All these are true.

D  Research implications refer to what future studies could do.

E  Limitations refer to potential problems in a study.

A  Response choices of the scale

B  How the scale is computed

C  Number of items in the scale

D  Reliability of the scale

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

F  Citation of the scale

A  Review of literature

B  Justification of the curren

C  Hypotheses of the current study

D  All are usually in the introduction

E  Purpose of the current study

F  Results of the current study

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

B  Journal tier is a subjective indicator of journal ranking

C  All are true

D  Generally, the 1st author makes the most contribution

E  Authorship order should be established before writing an article.

A  Empirical generalization

B  Blind peer review

C  Impact factor

D  Scholarship

E  Journal tier

A  Theory

B  Empirical generalization

C  Paradigm

D  Replication

E  Objectivity