POS301, Chapter 12
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- Evaluation research employs which method(s)?
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a. surveys
b. experiments
c. observation
d. existing statistics
ALL OF THE ABOVE - Which one of the following is correct? (About evaluation research)
- Evaluation research is a form of applied reserach.
- The recent growth of evaluation research is due primarily to:
- increased federal requirements and financial support.
- Which one of the following is an example of social intervention?
- A stdy of the effect of team teaching on learning.
- Teh most critical problem in evaluation reserach is:
- measuring the outcome.
- The key issue in specifying and measuring outcomes is:
- to consider multiple outcomes nad multiple indicators ofe ach.
- Which of teh following strategies is particularly useful for measuring the effects of experimental contexts?
- Control groups.
- Measures that have been used previously are likely to have higher degrees of:
- validity and reliability.
- Quasi-experimental designs differ from "true" experimenta designs by:
- lack of random assignment and lack of a control group.
- Professor Gabino wants to do an evaluation research study on the effect of a new treatment for learning disabilities. She has only one group of clients and wants to assess the effects over the course of a couple of months. Which design would be best?
- Time-series.
- Professor Yee wants to do an evaluation study of teh effects of a patient education program on patient anxiety. He uses one wing in a hospital for the experiment and compares the results with a similar gropu of patients in a similar wing in another hospi
- Nonequivalent control group.
- Cost-benefit analyss is used to assess:
- how much of an increase of effect is suffiient for success, given cost.
- Evaluation researchers encounter more logistical problems than other reserachres because evaluation research:
- occurs in the context of real life.
- The ethical issues of evaluation research center on:
- the nature of social intervention.
- Computer simulations is particularly useful for:
- predicting outcomes of specific social changes.
- The end product of quantifying data is to convert measurements into:
- machine-readable forms
- Which one of the following is an example of a frequency distribution of grouped data for age?
- 18-25, 40 people; 26-50, 60 people; over 50. 20 people
- The overall distribution of values for a variable are called :
- marginals
- The process of assigning number to questionnaires responses is known as:
- coding.
- Which measure of central tendency divides the distribution into two halves?
- Median
- With several extreme scores, which measure of dispersion would be most appropriate?
- Interquartile range.
- A fundemental dilemma in presenting data is:
- detail verus mangaeability.
- Descriptive analyses are most often accomplished with which type of statistical analysis?
- Univariate.
- Comparing the church attendance of men and women for descriptive purposes is an example of:
- subgroup comparisons.
- Professor Dorn analyzed the relationship between age and voting behavior. This is an example of which type of analysis?
- Bivariate.
- The fundaental rule in reading tables is to:
- read across the categories of the independent variable in analyzing the dependent variable.
- Another term for bivariate tables is:
- contingency tables.
- Professor Goldsmid studied the relationshp between gender and religiousity while controlling for social class. This is an example of which type of analysis?
- Multivariate analysis.
- Combining two independent variables and one dependent variable into one tbale is possible only when:
- the dependent variable is dichotomous.