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1. Question: Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a statistical hypothesis?
2. Question: An example of a research approach that assesses change after the treatment or intervention is over is:
3. Question: A researcher is doing a study on high school athletes and moral development. During the study, the football team throws a party to celebrate a great victory. The school principal receives a call the next day that several football players were intoxicated, and a female student was sexually assaulted. This event should be identified as a:
4. Question: A researcher is conducting research on using technology in teaching. The researcher has two groups. The first group receives instruction via a PowerPoint presentation that is online. The second group attends a class and receives instruction from a teacher face to face. The researcher classifies the students based on when they volunteer for the study. The first 50 students who volunteer receive online instruction. The next 50 receive instruction by attending a class with a teacher. With respect to this study, we could identify that:
5. Question: A colleague has been tutoring six students in 11th grade to prepare for the ACT. This colleague has asked you to evaluate the performance of his students. Student scores were as follows: 20, 18, 16, 15, 23, 20. The mean of the ACT scores is:
6. Question: The goal of qualitative research is:
7. Question: Studies conducted to understand changes over time, in particular, populations or differences in respondents who share specific qualities are:
8. Question: A colleague has been tutoring six students in 11th grade to prepare for the ACT. This colleague has asked you to evaluate the performance of his students. Student scores were as follows: 20, 18, 16, 15, 23, 20. The mode of the ACT scores is:
9. Question: Participants in a sample must be:
10. Question: You are conducting research on the effects of exercise on individuals with poor social skills. You indicate that you believe people who become actively involved with an exercise program will show higher levels of socialization. This is an example of:
11. Question: A perfect correlation is denoted by:
12. Question: The method identifying themes relevant to qualitative data that is collected is called:
13. Question: Hypothesis testing may be defined as:
14. Question: A study that moves from general to specific is:
15. Question: Which of the following is a research design that allows researchers to provide more information about the participants and potentially provide a more meaningful study?
16. Question: Sex and ethnicity are examples of:
17. Question: A quantitative research design that does not manipulate an independent variable is called:
18. Question: Qualitative research is most often:
19. Question: In a normal distribution, what percentage of the scores is above the mean?
20. Question: Scores that differ markedly from the rest of the sample are known as:
21. Question: A researcher is conducting research on using technology in teaching. The researcher has two groups. The first group receives instruction via a PowerPoint presentation that is online. The second group attends a class and receives instruction from a teacher face to face. The researcher classifies the students based on when they volunteer for the study. The first 50 students who volunteer receive online instruction. The next 50 receive instruction by attending a class with a teacher. The type of instruction the student receives is the:
22. Question: Which of the following is not a way of collecting qualitative data?
23. Question: ______ assesses the consistency of results across items within a test.
24. Question: When a researcher wishes to know how a set of participants changed over time or across repeated measures of a construct, the method that is conducted is:
25. Question: Sunshine has 12 students in her class. She has given a test and is evaluating the performance of her class. The exam is worth 50 points. Eleven of the students scored between 45 and 50. One student scored 12. The best measure for Dr. Sunshine to get an idea related to the performance of the class is the: