1. The general education committee at a regional university is concerned about scientific literacy in its students. They have developed a multi-disciplinary course which they hope will enhance students' knowledge about science. As part of the course, they have developed a new test of scientific literacy. They want to know whether their test is a good measure of scientific knowledge and so will measure __________.
2. 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:
3. Split-half is to __________ as parallel-forms and test-retest are to __________.
4. Random assignment of subjects is to __________ as observing subjects in naturally occurring conditions is to __________.
5. All of the following are strategies for controlling for the effects of suggestion and for participant reactivity EXCEPT:
6. Martin Orne's term for cues that suggest hypotheses to participants in research is:
7. Experimenter expectancies are a kind of __________.
8. Studies on __________ validity investigate whether questions on a test are a fair and representative sample of the content they are supposed to test.
9. The question below is an example of what kind of general question format?
What are some reasons for students having difficulty in a course?
10. Probability sampling is to ___________ as convenience sampling is to __________.
11. __________ is to test validity as __________ is to inter-rater reliability.
12. Your application to the IRE should describe your plan for preserving the confidentiality of participants' data and records to avoid risks to them. Such a plan is necessary to uphold the Belmont Report's principle of:
