Select Questions

Chapter 12

1. 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:

beneficence.

respect.

complete disclosure.

justice.

2. __________ reliability is determined by correlating scores for two administrations of the same test on the same group of people.

Alpha

Parallel-forms

Split-half

Test-retest

3. In creating your own questionnaire, your first decision is __________.

deciding on how many items to include

deciding whether to use "open-ended" or "closed" questions

deciding on whether to use the Likert or agree-disagree format

deciding on the sampling strategy for administration

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):

closed question.

open-ended question.

combination open-ended and closed question.

5. All of the following are strategies for controlling for the effects of suggestion and for participant reactivity EXCEPT:

holding demand characteristics constant for all conditions.

randomly assigning observers and experimenters to the conditions of the study.

"blinding" experimenters, observers, and participants as to subjects' experimental conditions.

randomly assigning subjects to groups.

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?

forced choice

open-ended

closed

combination

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

agree-disagree

magnitude estimation

Likert-type rating scale

rank order

8. 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 __________.

parallel-forms reliability

criterion validity

alpha reliability

content validity

9. __________ is to reliability as __________ is to validity.

Usefulness, consistency

Alpha, criterion

Consistency, parallel-forms

r, t

10. 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

magnitude estimation

agree-disagree

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

parallel-forms, test-retest

inter-observer, intra-observer

alpha, parallel-forms

split-half, alpha

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

your professor

earlier studies of the same research problem

equipment catalogs

commercial software