Quantitative Research Methods
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Quantitative Research Methods introduces students to the systematic investigation of social phenomena through statistical, mathematical, or computational techniques. This course emphasizes the design and implementation of research studies, including sampling strategies, hypothesis formulation, data collection, and data analysis. Students develop skills in using statistical tools and software to analyze numerical data, interpret results, and present findings clearly and accurately. By the end of the course, students will be able to critically evaluate quantitative studies and apply rigorous research methods to real-world questions in their field of study.
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Research Methods The Essential Knowledge Base 2nd Edition by Trochim
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Documents published by government agencies and some companies that describe some problem that the agency would like researchers to address are called
Answer: requests for proposals
Q2) Research is a type of systematic investigation that is empirical in nature and is designed to contribute to public knowledge.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) In causal studies,the interest is in the effects of some cause on one or more ____.
A)treatments
B)constructs
C)operations
D)outcomes
Answer: D
Q4) Studies designed to determine whether one or more treatment variables affects one or more outcome variables are called _______________ studies.
Answer: causal
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Chapter 2: Ethics Foundations of Ethics in Research
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Q1) The 10 principles that were developed as a frame of reference for judging the conduct of Nazi physicians accused of atrocities became the ____.
A)Nuremberg Code
B)Milgram Code
C)Belmont Report
D)Tuskegee Report
Answer: A
Q2) Milgram's famous study was inspired by the Nazi defense,"orders are orders."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The modern history of human-subject protections began at ____.
A)Nuremberg
B)Stanford
C)Belmont
D)Tuskegee
Answer: A
Q4) In research,_______________ means protection of personal information about participants.
Answer: privacy
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Chapter 3: Qualitative Approaches to Research
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Q1) An unobtrusive measure that occurs naturally in a research context is called a(n)____ measure.
A)indirect
B)thematic
C)self-report
D)subjective
Answer: A
Q2) Christine has conducted a study in which family caregivers of young adults with severe developmental disabilities were trained in stress reduction methods.After finding it to be very successful,she tests the same program with family caregivers of young adults who have suffered traumatic brain injury or spinal injury and have suddenly become disabled.Christine is assessing the ____ of her research.
A)credibility
B)transferability
C)dependability
D)confirmability
Answer: B
Q3) Systematic analysis of text is referred to as _______________.
Answer: content analysis
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Chapter 4: Sampling Foundations of Sampling
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Q1) A ____ indicates the upper and lower bounds of the estimate of a statistic.
A)span of variability
B)probability interval
C)
Range
D)confidence interval
Q2) Tonja wants to evaluate the effects of a new school breakfast program on student conduct and academic achievement.She cannot evaluate every student in every school in the district,so she randomly selects several schools and then collects data on all of the students in those schools.What type of sample is she using?
A)simple random
B)stratified random
C)systematic random
D)cluster random
Q3) What is systematic random sampling and how is it accomplished?
Q4) The degree to which the conclusions in your study would hold for other persons in other places and at other times is referred to as _______________.
Q5) In _______________,the sampling is being done for the most frequent or typical case.
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Chapter 5: Introduction to Measurement
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Q1) Cronbach's Alpha is used to overcome limitations associated with reliability assessed using the ____ method.
A)inter-rater
B)split-half
C)average inter-item correlation
D)average item-total correlation
Q2) When there is no error in measurement,reliability is ____.
A)0
B)1
C)equal to the variability of the distribution
D)equal to the inverse of the variability of the distribution
Q3) In ____,research participants do not respond the way they normally would because they are anxious about being tested.
A)hypothesis guessing
B)evaluation apprehension
C)researcher expectancies
D)construct confounding
Q4) If an instrument looks as though it measures what it is supposed to measure,it has
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Chapter 6: Scales, Tests, and Indexes
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Q1) A response scale ____.
A)is used to collect the response for an item
B)results from a process of assigning numbers to objects
C)has a value for each item on the scale
D)refers to a set of items
Q2) The _______________ is considered to be a reflection of generally how much consumers have to pay for things.
Q3) When Likert scaling is used,one of the criteria for the inclusion of an item in the final scale is based on ____.
A)the items statistical independence from the other questions
B)the size of the interquartile range of expert raters
C)whether the item as rated by experts has a high correlation with the total score across items
D)the lowest variability across judges
Q4) A test is typically developed to assess knowledge or skill.
A)True
B)False
Q5) According to Stevens,"scaling is the assignment of objects to numbers according to" a(n)_______________.
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Chapter 7: Survey Research
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Q1) A "yes-no" question has a(n)_______________ response format.
Q2) After an exhausting day,Suzanne has just finally selected her bridal gown and the gowns for her attendants.After she makes her choices and while she is waiting for the purchase agreement to be printed off,she is asked to take a few moments to complete a survey about the process.This is best described as a(n)____.
A)point-of-experience survey
B)group-administered questionnaire
C)drop-off survey
D)dual-media survey
Q3) If a survey has very long response categories,a(n)____ is preferable.
A)group questionnaire
B)phone interview
C)focus group
D)personal interview
Q4) Explain what structured format are and provide three examples.
Q5) If there are concerns about response quality,a(n)____ is preferable.
A)e-mail questionnaire
B)personal interview
C)mail questionnaire
D)drop-off survey
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Chapter 8: Introduction to Design
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Q1) The threat to validity that occurs as a result of a natural development that occurs between pre- and post- measurement is called a(n)____ threat.
A)history
B)maturation
C)instrumentation
D)testing
Q2) When an effect occurs when the proposed cause occurs,but the effect does not occur when the proposed cause has not occurred,____ has been demonstrated.
A)temporal precedence
B)covariation
C)plausibility
D)causality
Q3) The notation in the accompanying figure indicates a(n)_______________.
Q4) If plausible alternative explanations have been ruled out,a study can be said to have established ____.
A)external validity
B)internal validity
C)experimental validity
D)statistical validity
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Chapter 9: Experimental Design
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Q1) The statement "If X then Y and if not X then not Y" is a statement of ____.
A)causality
B)covariance
C)
Plausibility
D)independence
Q2) Experimental design is generally strong against diffusion threats.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Although any continuous variable can be used as a covariate,a(n)_______________ is usually best.
Q4) What type of treatment effect is shown in the accompanying figure?
A)short-term persistent
B)short-term
C)long-term continuing
D)long-term
Q5) Experimental design in vulnerable to selection-_______________ threats.
Q6) The null case is a situation in which treatments have no effect.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Quasi-Experimental Design
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Q1) What type of design is a post-only design in which,after the fact,a pretest measure is constructed from preexisting data?
A)non-equivalent groups
B)regression discontinuity
C)proxy-pretest
D)separate pre-post samples
Q2) Research designs that have several of the key features of randomized experimental designs,such as pre-post measurement and treatment-control group comparisons,but lack random assignment to a treatment group are called _______________ designs.
Q3) Consider the figure above,illustrating the regression discontinuity design.What can you conclude?
A)The treatment had an effect,as shown by the discontinuity at the cutoff.
B)There appears to be a selection effect,because the groups differed before the treatment began.
C)The slopes of the regression lines appear similar, so there is no treatment effect.
D)The discontinuity suggests the presence of a maturation effect.
Q4) How does the switching-replications design enhance generalizability?
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Chapter 11: Introduction to Data Analysis
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Q1) What type of graph is shown in the accompanying figure?
A)bar chart
B)bivariate
C)pie
D)line
Q2) The probability that the researcher will conclude there is a relationship when in fact there is one is referred to as statistical _______________.
Q3) As soon as a researcher receives data,the data should be ____.
A)screened for accuracy
B)analyzed
C)graphed
D)logged
Q4) What is statistical power and how can it be increased?
Q5) What is the mean of this set of scores?
4,6,7,7,9,3,10,4,2,9
A)4
B)6.5
C)6.1
D)7
Q6) Describe the phenomenon of fishing and explain how it is related to error.
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Chapter 12: Inferential Analysis
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Q1) The line indicated by letter A in the accompanying figure is the ____.
A)error term
B)regression coefficient
C) value
D)slope
Q2) The general statistical analysis that enables us to model relationships in data and test for treatment effects is ____.
A)ANOVA
B)regression
C)ANCOVA
D)Pearson's correlation
Q3) The error term in the GLM is also called the _______________.
Q4) The degrees of freedom are a function of the ____.
A)alpha level
B)variance
C)means
D)sample size
Q5) The basic regression-discontinuity design is a two-group pretest-posttest model.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Communicating Research
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Q1) Under what circumstances should the last name of only the first author of a three- to five-author reference,followed by et al.be included with the citation in the body of the text?
A)always
B)never
C)the first time the citation occurs
D)the second and subsequent times the reference is cited
Q2) Under what circumstances should the last names of all authors of a three- to five-author reference be included with the citation in the body of the text?
A)always
B)never
C)the first time the citation occurs
D)only if necessary to distinguish it from other references
Q3) A(n)_______________ presentation is typically in a low-stress,friendly environment.
Q4) The _______________ section begins immediately after the introduction.
Q5) The _______________ is limited to 150 to 200 words.
Q6) In APA-style,the _______________ is typically limited to 12 words
Q7) In APA-style,the first section of the body of the paper is the _______________.
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