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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
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.
Question #2
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.
Question #3
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
Question #4
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
Question #5
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
Question #6
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.
Question #7
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
Question #8
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.
Question #9
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.
Question #10
A Observer as participant
B Participant as observer
C Complete observer
Question #11
A One-to-one semi-structured interview
B Focus groups
C One-to-one unstructured interview
D One-to-one structured interview
Question #12
A Focus groups
B One-to-one unstructured interview
C One-to-one semi-structured interview
D One-to-one structured interview
Question #13
A Alternative hypothesis
B Null hypothesis
C Research hypothesis
Question #14
A moderating variable
B mediating variable
C control variable
Question #15
A Mediating variable
B Control variable
C Independent variable
D Dependent variable
E Extraneous variable
Question #16
A dichotomous variable
B continuous variable
C categorical (no dichotomous) variable
Question #17
A dichotomous variables
B continuous variables
C categorical (non dichotomous) variables
Question #18
A continuous variable
B categorical (non dichotomous) variable
C dichotomous variable
Question #19
A extraneous variable
B Dependent variable
C mediating variable
D moderating variable
Question #20
A One-shot case study design
B One-group pretest, posttest design
C Static group design
D Interrupted time-series design
Question #21
A One-shot case study design
B Static group comparison design
C Interrupted time-series design
D Solomon 4-group design
Question #22
A Nonequivalent control (comparison) group design
B Pretest posttest control group design
C Regression-discontinuity design
D Pretest posttest nonequivalent group design
Question #23
A Regression-discontinuity design
B Multiple time-series design
C Nonequivalent control (comparison) group design
D Pretest posttest nonequivalent group design
Question #24
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
Question #25
A Causal-comparative research
B Correlational research
C Descriptive research
D Developmental research
E Exploratory research
Question #26
A Developmental research
B Historical research
C Descriptive research
D Correlational research
E Causal-comparative research
F Exploratory research
Question #27
A Basic research
B Applied research
C Action research
D Evaluation research
Question #28
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
Question #29
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.
Question #30
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
Question #31
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
Question #32
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
Question #33
A Impact factor
B Journal tier
C Empirical generalization
D Blind peer review
E Scholarship
Question #34
A Objectivity
B Replication
C Empirical generalization
D Paradigm
E Theory