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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Researchers often have projects that last years, while practitioners want quicker results.
B All of these are true.
C Researchers define success from good data and statistically significant results; while practitioners are define success as helping others.
D Researchers tend to more guided by logic, evidence and numbers; while practitioners often rely on feelings, experiences and observations.
E Researchers are more flexible and responsive to participants’ needs, while practitioners desire more control in a study.
Question #2
A Construct validity is the most rigorous validity test
B As long as the scale has face validity, that is enough.
C All of these are true.
D Face validity can be established by asking people if they think the instrument could adequately and completely assess someone’s specific attitude/belief
E Convergent validity means that measures that are theoretically related should be significantly correlated
Question #3
A As a general rule, the alpha should be .60 or above for widely used scales
B The reliability observed score is equal to the true score plus the error score
C All of these are true.
D The Alpha ranges from 0 to 1., and the closer it is to one, the higher the reliability estimate.
E The Cronbach’s alpha is the most popular measure of internal consistency
Question #4
A Checklists are designed to let the respondent choose one or more responses.
B Open-ended questions allow respondents to answer the question in their own words
C All of these are true.
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
Question #5
A Leading questions are designed to get respondents to answer in a certain way
B Loaded questions ask about both sides of an issue (e.g., asking about pros and cons)
C Avoid asking respondents about their future intentions/behaviors because their responses are poor predictors of future behavior
D False premises begin a question with a premise in which respondents may not agree
E All of these are true.
Question #6
A Double-barreled questions are good since they can ask about two things at once.
B All of these are true.
C Avoid asking questions that are beyond respondents’ capabilities
D Double negatives are bad.
E Put people first, not their disability
Question #7
A Should avoid jargon/slang
B Should avoid abbreviations
C All of these are true about interviewing.
D Should avoid ambiguous terminology
E Should write items at a 12th grade reading level
Question #8
A A testing threat occurs when when taking a pretest affects how the subjects do on the posttest.
B All of these are true.
C Mortality threat occurs when subjects die or drop out of a study.
D A history threat occurs when some event occurs outside the researcher’s influence that impacts the outcome.
E An instrumentation threat occurs when the score is due to a problem in the testing or scoring procedure
Question #9
A All of these are true.
B In cluster random sampling, the researcher chooses a number at random (i.e., k) and then selects every kth unit.
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
Question #10
A Participant as observer
B Complete observer
C Observer as participant
Question #11
A One-to-one unstructured interview
B One-to-one semi-structured interview
C One-to-one structured interview
D Focus groups
Question #12
A Focus groups
B One-to-one semi-structured interview
C One-to-one structured interview
D One-to-one unstructured interview
Question #13
A Null hypothesis
B Alternative hypothesis
C Research hypothesis
Question #14
A control variable
B moderating variable
C mediating variable
Question #15
A Control variable
B Mediating variable
C Dependent variable
D Independent variable
E Extraneous variable
Question #16
A dichotomous variable
B categorical (no dichotomous) variable
C continuous variable
Question #17
A categorical (non dichotomous) variables
B dichotomous variables
C continuous variables
Question #18
A continuous variable
B dichotomous variable
C categorical (non dichotomous) variable
Question #19
A Dependent variable
B extraneous variable
C moderating variable
D mediating variable
Question #20
A One-shot case study design
B Interrupted time-series design
C Static group design
D One-group pretest, posttest design
Question #21
A One-shot case study design
B Interrupted time-series design
C Static group comparison design
D Solomon 4-group design
Question #22
A Pretest posttest control group design
B Nonequivalent control (comparison) group design
C Pretest posttest nonequivalent group design
D Regression-discontinuity design
Question #23
A Multiple time-series design
B Pretest posttest nonequivalent group design
C Regression-discontinuity design
D Nonequivalent control (comparison) group design
Question #24
A Micro-ethnography from an etic perspective
B Micro-ethnography from an emic perspective
C Macro-ethnography from an etic perspective
D Macro-ethnography from an emic perspective
Question #25
A Causal-comparative research
B Developmental research
C Correlational research
D Exploratory research
E Descriptive research
Question #26
A Historical research
B Descriptive research
C Causal-comparative research
D Developmental research
E Correlational research
F Exploratory research
Question #27
A Action research
B Applied research
C Basic research
D Evaluation research
Question #28
A Fabrication refers to fabricating data/results and/or reporting fabricated dat
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 All are true
D Plagiarism refers to stealing someone’s ideas, works, and/or words and presenting them as your own
E An example of publishing misconduct is when author(s) publish the same results in different journals without proper approval and citation
Question #29
A Limitations refer to potential problems in a study.
B All these are true.
C Methods should include the procedures, sample description, and how variables were measured.
D Research implications refer to what future studies could do.
E Implications for practice refer to how people could use the results of the study in their work.
Question #30
A Reliability of the scale
B Response choices of the scale
C Citation of the scale
D How the scale is computed
E All are usually in the measurement section of a particular scale
F Number of items in the scale
Question #31
A Results of the current study
B Review of literature
C Justification of the curren
D Hypotheses of the current study
E Purpose of the current study
F All are usually in the introduction
Question #32
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 Generally, the 1st author makes the most contribution
D Authorship order should be established before writing an article.
E All are true
Question #33
A Impact factor
B Empirical generalization
C Journal tier
D Blind peer review
E Scholarship
Question #34
A Paradigm
B Objectivity
C Replication
D Empirical generalization
E Theory