Exam 3- Ch. 8-10
For any survey to have any value, the response rate must be at least 50 percent.
False
The length of a question has no bearing on how effectively the respondent will answer.
False
There are no commonalities between quantitative and qualitative approaches to instrument construction.
False
Which of the following is (are) an advantage of the community forum approach to needs assessment?
Feasability
Which of the following statements is true regarding the order in which items appear in a questionnaire?
Researchers should attempt to estimate the effect of question order and use their judgment so as to minimize any order problems
Although online surveys can obtain large samples inexpensively, the respondents may NOT be representative of the rest of the population.
True
Qualitative measures rely on interviews that are usually open-ended with in-depth probes.
True
The questionnaire item "Did you file federal and state income tax reports last year?" with a response set of yes, no, can't remember, other, is an example of
a double-barreled question.
In general, survey research is an appropriate observational method for
All of these- describing a population too large to observe directly, cross-sectional or longitudinal studies, the measurement of attitudes prevalent in a larger population
In order to avoid measurement error in a questionnaire, it is a good idea to
All of these- use unbiased wording, use terms that subjects will understand, test out the instrument in a dry run with a few people in the target population
Contingency questions:
Are used to increase the likelihood of responses from those for whom the questions are relevant.
Asking subjects "Did your children go to high school and college?" after they told you that they have no children violates which of the following criteria in question construction?
Avoid double-barreled questions and questions should be relevant.
The questionnaire item "Which is not a serious problem in the U.S. today, anomie or the socialization of the young?" violates which of the following guidelines?
Avoid negative items.
Which of the following statements is/are true about questionnaires?
Because it is virtually impossible to avoid some mistakes in wording, questionnaires should be pretested in a dry run.
When conducting an online survey, you should:
Present the password and link to the survey website early in the e-mail message.
If an instrument has both convergent and discriminant validity, it then has:
construct validity.
Professor Smith gave an exam on Monday. On Wednesday Smith gave the same class the same exam. Professor Smith was clearly interested in assessing the exam's
reliability.
The tendency of people to answer questions through a filter that will convey a favorable impression is called
social desirability bias.
Most social scientists would not accept the conceptualization of IQ as foot size because such a measurement would lack
validity.
Reliability involves
whether a particular technique applied repeatedly to the same object would yield the same results each time.
Which of the following statements is(are) INCORRECT?
Closed-ended questions should limit respondents to three or four choices.
Which of the following statements is/are true about constructing qualitative measures?
Interviews can range from completely unstructured, informal conversational interviews that use no measurement instruments to highly structured, standardized interviews in which interviewers must ask questions in the exact order and with the exact wording in which they are written out in advance.
An instrument is developed with the intent to measure whether the parenting skills of parents referred for child abuse or neglect improve after participation in a parenting education treatment program. The instrument is found to be valid when untreated parents referred for child abuse or neglect score much worse on it than model parents who are child therapists. Which of the following statements is/are true about the instrument?
It appears to have known groups validity.
When asking questionnaire items, the interviewer should
ask every question even if the respondent has apparently answered it already.
An interview with someone with a limited vocabulary who therefore does not understand the questions being asked is likely to produce
both random error and unreliable data
Asking a group of experts whether the items on a scale appear to measure what they intend to measure is a way to assess the scale's:
content validity.
In contrast to interviews, self-administered questionnaires have the advantage of
handling sensitive issues more effectively.
In general, strengths of survey research include
making large samples feasible
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of the key informants approach to needs assessment?
representativeness of sample.
When follow-ups are planned with mail surveys
response rates typically increase.
