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Last Big Quiz

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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