PRACTICAL RESEARCH 2
Measures the probability of rejecting a true null hypothesis
The significance level
feasible,clear,significant,and ethical
Good research question are
Conveys a sense of emerging design
A qualitative research problem statement:e
Ethics should be based on self-reflexivity
A radical perspective on ethics suggests that:
Is an accumulated body of knowledge
A theory
The null hypothesis is rejected when it is in fact true
A type 1 error occurs in a situation where:
An independent variable
A variable that is presumed to cause a change in another variable is called:
A research initiated to solve an immediate problem
Action research means
Attentive listening
Active listening skill means:
Deception is only used when necessary
Adopting ethical principles in research means:
The researches's research diary
All of the following are sources of secondary data EXCEPT:
Encyclopedia
An appropriate source to find out description information is_________
An institutional college,or department review board
An educational psychology student who conducts dissertation research using human participants must obtain formal approval that the research meets ethical guidelines from
Teacher hair color
An example of a categorical variable is
Time taken to complete a spatial reasoning task
An example of a quantitative variable is the
Understanding the context in which they were produced
Avoiding native empiricism in the interpretation of visual date means:
Primary
Conference proceedings are considered as______ documents
Informant
If a researcher interviews a principal about the characteristics of the director superintendent,the principal is a(n)
Students grade level
If a researcher studies fourth-grade students to determine the effects pf rewarding good
High numbers of respondents are needed
Interviewing is the favored approach EXCEPT when:
Success on a task
Performance instruments are used to measure
Paraphrasing the author's text in your own words
Plagiarism can be avoided by:
It is typically used when a great deal is already known about the topic of interest
Qualitative research is used in all the following circumstances,EXCEPT:
Tool for data collection
Questionnaire is....
Researchers should never reveal the names of participants when they report results
The ethical principle that data collected from subjects should be kept confidential means that
Rating scales,tally sheets,flowcharts,performance checklist,interview schedule
The five types of researchers-completed instruments used in educational research are
The standard deviation
The measure of the extent to which responses vary from the mean is called:.
-1.00
Which correlation is the strongest
Deductive reasoning
Which form of reasoning is the process pf drawing a specific conclusion from a set of premise
Assuring anonymity rather than just confidentiality
Which generally cannot be guaranteed in conducting qualitative studies in the field?
The major findings of the study should be briefly reported
Which of the following best describes how research should usually be presented in the body of a literature review report ?
A broad question is made more specific as terms as more clearly defined.
Which of the following best describes the development process for a research question?
Children who receive frequent teacher approval are more likely to stay on task
Which of the following descriptions exemplifies a scientific relationship?
Peer editing or peer groups or writing instruction
Which of the following descriptor combinations will produce that most references?
The value one places on oneself
Which of the following is a constitute definition of self-esteem?
Action research
Which of the following is a form of research typically conducted by managers and other professionals to adress issues in their organizations and/or professional practice?
Do students with high levels of self-efficacy demonstrate more active job searching behaviors ?
Which of the following is a good research question ?
Does the phonics or the whole-language approach to reading lead to higher achievement?
Which of the following is a good research question?
As measured by the "Science interest" questionnaire
Which of the following is a possible operational definition for "motivated to learn science?"
If some of the results in a research study are different from the others,it is okay to delete the different ones
Which of the following is am example of unethical practices ?
Lack of credibility
Which of the following is an example of a disadvantage of searching the World Wide Web
A textbook
Which of the following is least likely to be a primary source?
Is it good to include civics courses in the high school curriculum
Which of the following is not a good research question?
Deception is permitted in studies involving children with parental consent
Which of the following is not a professional guideline concerning the use of deception
Word
Which of the following is not an SPSS type variable ?
Requiring participants to continue until the study has been completed
Which of the following is not ethical practice in research with humans?
Personality or character inventory
Which of the following is not one of the five types of researcher-completed instruments used in educational research?
Ignore secondary sources
Which of the following is not one of the steps involved in a literature review?
Performance tests
Which of the following is one type of subject-completed instrument used in educational research?
Identification of problem
Which of the following is the first step in starting the research process?
Are participants protected from human?
Which of the following is the foremost ethical question a researcher must address?
Will the use of peer critiques improve college students' compositions?
Which of the following question meets the criteria of well-formulated research question?
Is dependent on the completion of other projects
Which of the following should not be a critertion for a good research project ?
The smaller the sample size,the greater the sampling error
Which of the following statements are true
A theoretical prediction can be stated as a specific hypothesis
Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between a hypothesis and a theory
As a student of a university,your are not required to participate in any study
Which of the following statements exemplifies ethical research practice?
Short answer
Which of the following type of items is not a selection item?
Numerical Aptitude
Which of the following variables cannot be expressed in quantitative terms?
A large sample based on random sampling
Which of the following will produce the least sampling error?
Experimental variable
Which of the following would not be appropriate synonym for the dependent variable?
Inductive method
Which research method is a bottom-up approach tp research?
Construct validity
Which term measures the extent to which scores from a test can be used to infer or predict performance in some activity?
Independent
Which variable are those that a researcher chooses to study in order to assess their possible effects on one or more other variable
Attorneys,physicians,and members of the clergy
Who is protected by the law of privileged communication ?
Using metaphors
You can create interest in your presentation by:
Experimental research
"Controlled Group" is a term used in..........
A bar chart
A graph that uses vertical bars to represent data is called:
A prediction of some sort regarding the possible outcomes of a study
A hypothesis can be described as
Obtain a complete set of references about a specified topic
A meta analysis is a method researchers use too
The visible condition of the skin
A researcher conducted an experiment to see if increasing water consumption lessens the visible effects of rosacea,a common skin condition.The dependent variable in this experiment was
Explanation
A researcher designs an experiment to test how variables interact to influence job-selling behaviors .The main purpose of the study was:
Semantic different
A scale on which opposing adjectives are presented is called a
Product rating scale
An instrument that could be used to grade pottery that students created created in a visual arts class is
Sociometric device
An instrument that identifies how individuals relate to peers is called a(an)
Exploration
Cyber bullying at work is a growing threat to employee job satisfaction.Researchers want to find out why people do this and how they feel about it.The primary purpose of the study is:
How can respondents be re-interviewed?
In conducting secondary data analysis,researchers should ask themselves all of the following EXCEPT:
Make observations and then analyze these to find an answer
In order for a question to qualify as a research question,the researcher must be able to
Ignore your nerves
In preparing for a presentation you should do all pf the following EXCEPT:
Maximum variation sampling
In qualitative research,sampling that involves selecting diverse cases is referred to as:
Selection of Research Tools
In the process of conducting research "Formulation of Hypothesis" is followed by
Particular to general
Inductive logic proceeds from:
Organized data
Information is...
Ordinal scale
One researcher classified the participants as "good" "average",or "poor" readers.This researcher used a(n)
Mixed-method research
Research that uses qualitative methods for one phase and quantitative methods for the next phase is known as:
General references,primary resources,and secondary resources
Researchers need to be familiar with these three basic types of sources:
Grounded theory
Sometimes a comprehensive review of the literature prior to data collection is not recommended by:
Withdraw from participants in the study
Study participants should always be told of their right to
Journal articles and research reports
The most directly pertinent information to read a literature review will usually come from
Immediate access to a wide variety of current materials
The primary advantage that the World Wide Web has brought to literature reviews is
Independent variable
The variable manipulated by the researcher in an experiment is called the
Health and human services
This federal agency has the major responsibility for establishing the guidelines for research involving human subjects
Dependent
This variable is influenced by the independent variable
A paired t-test
To compare the performance of a group at type 1 and then at 2, we would use:
Regression Analysis
To predicts the value of the dependent variables for a new case based on the knowledge of one or more independent variables, we would use
Multiple questions cover the same theme
Validity in interviews is strengthened by the following EXCEPT:
When the potential value of the study for humans is very high
When does the scientific community permit research that may cause participants harm?
Constitutive definitions,definitions by example and operational definitions
What are the commonly used ways to clarify unclear terms in a research question?
Manually and electronically with a computer
What are the two main ways to do a literature search?
Information Management Tool
What is Bibliometry?
Use leading question
When designing a questionnaire it is important to do each of the following EXCEPT