1. A personality inventory asks respondents to rate the extent to which they see themselves as good listeners, from "never or almost never true" to "always or almost always true." This type of item is an example of:
2. Two student research assistants were randomly assigned to collecting data for either the treatment or control condition. This technique is an attempt to __________.
3. 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.
4. Open-ended questions are to __________ as closed questions are to __________.
5. Studies on __________ validity investigate whether tests are good measures of the psychological concepts the author claims they measure.
6. The question below is an example of what kind of general question format?
What are some reasons for students having difficulty in a course?
7. __________ questions are better in the beginning stages of researching a particular problem.
8. The mentally retarded child's behavior improved as soon as the researcher began to pay him individual attention. This is an example of __________.
9. The GRE is used as a predictor of performance in graduate schools and so is frequently a requirement for admission to graduate programs. This use of the GRE is based on its __________.
10. The best source of information on the instruments that you could use in your study is
11. __________ is to commercial tests as __________ is to unpublished tests.
12. 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 __________.
