Select Questions

Chapter 12

1. The following closed question offers what type of format?

I am a person of worth
a = Strongly Disagree; b = Disagree; c = Agree; d = Strongly Agree

Likert-type rating scale

rank order

agree-disagree

magnitude estimation

2. The best source of information on the instruments that you could use in your study is

your professor

equipment catalogs

earlier studies of the same research problem

commercial software

3. Convenience sampling is to __________ as probability sampling is to __________.

time-consuming, use of computer selection

random, non-random

campus subject pool, population

recruiting volunteers, lack of the ability to generalize results with calculable error

4. The question "What products do you think the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) should regulate?" with response alternatives: prescription drugs, herbal medicine, cigarettes, vitamins,toothpaste, other (please specify), is an example of a(n):

combination open-ended and closed question.

open-ended question.

closed question.

5. One reason for debriefing in research that is NOT suggested in the dictionary definition is:

assessing the conduct of participants during the research.

giving participants the educational benefit of learning about the research.

explaining and correcting any deception.

cautioning participants not to discuss the experiment with other potential participants.

6. Two students were observing the out-of-seat behavior of a hyperactive first-grader together. After their observation, they calculated Cohen's kappa. They were determining __________.

inter-observer reliability

construct validity

alpha reliability

intra-observer reliability

7. __________ is to test validity as __________ is to inter-rater reliability.

r, kappa

F, t

t, correlation

correlation, r

8. When reliability is determined by dividing the items on a test into two halves and correlating participants' scores on these parts, the result is known as the test's reliability.

test-retest

content

split-half

parallel-forms

9. Spearman-Brown is to __________ reliability as KR-20 is to __________ reliability.

inter-observer, intra-observer

split-half, alpha

alpha, parallel-forms

parallel-forms, test-retest

10. Of the following, who is associated with the magnitude estimation question format?

Buros

Orne

Stevens

Rosenthal

11. Inter-observer reliability is to __________ as intra-observer reliability is to __________.

experiment, observation

between, within

agreement in ratings at different times, agreement in behavior classification

correlation, F-test

12. A(n) __________ question format requires subjects to order a set of alternatives according to their preferences.

Likert-type rating scale

agree-disagree

rank order

magnitude estimation