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What is primary research?
Qualitative and Quantitative Data
Data that is already available to use
Secondary data
First-hand data collected by a business
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Inter-observer realiability is improved by developing clearly defined & seperate categories of
Questionnaires
Questions
Independent variable
Observational criteria
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The focus of axial coding is on the raw data.
False
True
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Validity and reliability are the same?
True
False
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True or false: A sample is a subset of a population
False
True
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When is a pie chart useful?
Presenting data from a small table
For baking cakes
Measuring a variable over time
Presenting data from a big table
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Primary sources are...
A direct record of information: an interview.
The first place you get to: e.g. Wikipedia
The first place you find: e.g. Google
Agriculture and mining.
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Which are examples of voluntary response samples?
internet polls
call in polls
sampling your friends
sampling the high school
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In published findings, research participants should be
separated by race
identified by name to show they are real
excused from the report
protected with pseudonyms or aliases
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Which of the following demonstrates causality?
Students' height and length of their arm span
The no. of hours spent studying for a test and their results
Students test scores in Maths and test scores in Music
Size of students left foot and size of students right foot
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which of the following conditions must be met in causal relationship?
there must be a connection between the two variables that you examine
none of them
the 'independent variable' must precede the 'dependent variable' in time
both conditions must be met
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Generating and testing hypotheses is...
Process identifying relationships between pairs of concepts
process identifying ways items are alike/different.
process that involves making and testing hypotheses
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Why is transparency important in research?
So your methods can be improved upon
So your methods can be scrutinized
All of these
So your methods can be replicated
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What is the Likert scale?
A number is selected to gauge the participants rating (1-5)
A scale to measure the suitability of a participant
A scale to measure the validity of a participants behaviour
Ranges from strongly agree to strongly disagree
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Sample size in qualitative research is
Small
Big
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Citing your sources
Makes your paper standout
Pays tribute to the Beatles
Is something you have to do
Gives credit to your source
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A good research question will ...
need many different sources exploring related ideas
be very narrow
Have a yes or no answer
Have a simple answer
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The goal of descriptive research is to...
Understand the scope of a problem
Dig deeper into underlying processes and understand why
Assess cause and effect
Evaluate effectiveness
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what does a high Cronbach's alpha (>0.70) means?
that the outcome is unriliable and invalid
the outcome is both reliable and valid
the outcome is highly reliable though this says nothing about the validity
highly valid and not reliable
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Does correlation equal causality?
Yes
Always no
Not necessarily
As long as your mate reckons it does
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What is a survey?
Fixed questions that are asked to participants
A way of collecting lots of data using questions
A way of collecting lots of data using paper questions
A way of collecting data using opportunity sampling
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whit open coding
you have to go to a higher level of abstraction
you have to go to a higher level of abstraction
you have to goe as far as possible from the research question
you must stay as close as possible to the original text
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Describe the correlation
moderate; negative
positive; strong
weak; positive
linear; weak
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Validity
the soundness of your interpretations and uses of results.
reliability and objectivity
a clear statement about what students are to learn.
making sense of problems and persevering in solving them.
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Research is a systematic investigative process employed to increase or revise current knowledge by discovering new facts
True
False
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Which of the following are ethics that must be followed in an experiment....
voluntary participation
debriefing
informed consent
confidentiality of results
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You need research Abraham Lincoln for a history paper
Database
Search Engine
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When should we use a histogram?
To display large amounts of data in intervals
To show a relationship
To show a change over time
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What is Quantitative Research?
Uses mainly words & other non-numeric symbols in collection & analysis
Uses mainly words and lego
Uses numers and stats in the collection and analysis of data
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What are ethics?
When you call someone else's work your own
A set of moral principles used to determine right or wrong
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How many total people took this survey?
45
269
107
92
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Grounded theory
is inductive, gathering enough information to form a theory
is an ethnographic study on the ground in some environment
is deductive, trying to prove a theory
is inclusive, where all researchers make a hypothesis
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Because APA subject areas are concerned with the most current sources, dates...
are listed last
appear immediately after the author in the citation
are omitted from citations
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Reliability
the consistency of assessment results.
holding school officials responsible for test results.
evaluating an existing assessment procedure.
deciding what students are to learn.
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The goal of qualitative research is to...
Understand the broad scope of a problem
Evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention
Count how many
Dig deeper into an underlying process or understand why
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What is a Dependent variable?
A data Table
What the scientist is keeping the same
What the scientist is measuring
What the scientist is changing
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What is a example of a qualitative research technique?
Observation and recording
Focus groups
Test marketing
Consumer survey
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A mail-out questionnaire often has a low response rate
False
True
