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