EDUC 518 Quiz Survey Research
EDUC 518 Quiz: Survey Research and Understanding Quantitative Data
Module 5: Week 5
- Which of the following cautions should a researcher keep in mind when reporting expected results?
- Suppose a school administrator wants to find out how many students in a certain school own smartphones. What kind of survey would the administrator use for this purpose?
- Which of the following are components that should be included in the preliminary pages of a thesis?
- Complex statistical procedures to analyze more than one variable can be used to show causation between variables.
- A researcher has obtained a large amount of survey data from a variety of represented groups, and wants to analyze comparisons between several different combinations of groups. What tool would be best suited for this purpose?
- Why does the possibility of social desirability bias especially arise in interviews?
- What type of longitudinal survey takes different samples of the same population over time?
- Which of the following are among the uses of correlational research?
- Which of the following are reasons that a research report should follow a specific format?
- Which correlation coefficient is used for ordinal data?
- Which of the following are elements to include in a cover letter of a mailed questionnaire?
- The reliability of questionnaires may be enhanced by redundancy within the questions.
- Face validity concerns whether questions are perceived by the subject to be relevant.
- Which of the following are some of the conventions to be followed in academic writing?
- Which of the following are factors in terms of which a correlation coefficient can be validly interpreted?
- The main purpose of a journal article is to communicate the author’s contribution to knowledge.
- A regression equation can be used to calculate:
- Why does the statistical significance of a correlation not necessarily imply practical significance?
- What is the main reason that computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) can save a lot of time?
- Which of the following are bases by which the variables of interest in a correlational study may be selected?