Last Big Quiz

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

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

C  All of these are true.

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

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

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

B  Construct validity is the most rigorous validity test

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

E  All of these are true.

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

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

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

D  All of these are true.

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

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

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

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

D  All of these are true.

E  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

A  All of these are true.

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

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

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

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

A  Put people first, not their disability

B  Avoid asking questions that are beyond respondents’ capabilities

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

D  All of these are true.

E  Double negatives are bad.

A  All of these are true about interviewing.

B  Should avoid abbreviations

C  Should write items at a 12th grade reading level

D  Should avoid ambiguous terminology

E  Should avoid jargon/slang

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

B  All of these are true.

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

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

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

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

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

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

D  All of these are true.

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

A  Observer as participant

B  Participant as observer

C  Complete observer

A  One-to-one semi-structured interview

B  Focus groups

C  One-to-one unstructured interview

D  One-to-one structured interview

A  Focus groups

B  One-to-one unstructured interview

C  One-to-one semi-structured interview

D  One-to-one structured interview

A  Alternative hypothesis

B  Null hypothesis

C  Research hypothesis

A  moderating variable

B  mediating variable

C  control variable

A  Mediating variable

B  Control variable

C  Independent variable

D  Dependent variable

E  Extraneous variable

A  dichotomous variable

B  continuous variable

C  categorical (no dichotomous) variable

A  dichotomous variables

B  continuous variables

C  categorical (non dichotomous) variables

A  continuous variable

B  categorical (non dichotomous) variable

C  dichotomous variable

A  extraneous variable

B  Dependent variable

C  mediating variable

D  moderating variable

A  One-shot case study design

B  One-group pretest, posttest design

C  Static group design

D  Interrupted time-series design

A  One-shot case study design

B  Static group comparison design

C  Interrupted time-series design

D  Solomon 4-group design

A  Nonequivalent control (comparison) group design

B  Pretest posttest control group design

C  Regression-discontinuity design

D  Pretest posttest nonequivalent group design

A  Regression-discontinuity design

B  Multiple time-series design

C  Nonequivalent control (comparison) group design

D  Pretest posttest nonequivalent group design

A  Micro-ethnography from an etic perspective

B  Macro-ethnography from an emic perspective

C  Micro-ethnography from an emic perspective

D  Macro-ethnography from an etic perspective

A  Causal-comparative research

B  Correlational research

C  Descriptive research

D  Developmental research

E  Exploratory research

A  Developmental research

B  Historical research

C  Descriptive research

D  Correlational research

E  Causal-comparative research

F  Exploratory research

A  Basic research

B  Applied research

C  Action research

D  Evaluation research

A  All are true

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

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

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

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

A  All these are true.

B  Research implications refer to what future studies could do.

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

D  Limitations refer to potential problems in a study.

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

A  Response choices of the scale

B  Citation of the scale

C  Number of items in the scale

D  How the scale is computed

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

F  Reliability of the scale

A  Hypotheses of the current study

B  Results of the current study

C  All are usually in the introduction

D  Purpose of the current study

E  Justification of the curren

F  Review of literature

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

B  Authorship order should be established before writing an article.

C  All are true

D  Generally, the 1st author makes the most contribution

E  Journal tier is a subjective indicator of journal ranking

A  Impact factor

B  Journal tier

C  Empirical generalization

D  Blind peer review

E  Scholarship

A  Objectivity

B  Replication

C  Empirical generalization

D  Paradigm

E  Theory