Student Name: ______________________________________
1. Which of the following is not a principle of generally
collecting information:
a. information collected needs to be relevant and sufficient to answer the research question2. The action process of data collection generally involves use of one or more data collection strategies. List and describe them in 1-2 sentences:
b. selection of strategies to collect information must be purposeful
c. in both quantitative and qualitative research, data collection strategies, evolve as the research unfolds
d. using either one or multiple data collection strategies must enhance either the validity or trustworthiness
a.3. What's the main difference between an interview and a questionnaire?
b.
c.
4. Match the following ( you will not use all terms):
a. unobtrusive methodology5. Describe three ways that quantitative and qualitative data collection strategies are different:
b. artifact review
c. the Hawthorne effect
d. secondary data analysis
e. semantic differential
f. historical attenuation_____ a technique used to assess the meanings of objects in research contexts
_____ a process the researcher uses to analyze existing data sets
_____ the observation and examination of documents and objects that bear on the phenomenon of interest
_____ a change in the respondent's answer as a consequence of participating in the research process itself
a.6. Match the following levels of measurement with the corresponding examples or situations. Answers may be used more than once:
b.
c.
a. nominal7. State what form of measurement (physiological, tests, observational, interview, questionnaire, available data, measurement of objects, and measurement of qualities of the environment) would be appropriate for the following variables?
b. ordinal
c. interval
d. ratio___ assigning a name to a variable without assigning any levels to it
___ variables are ordered, with equal spacing, and are mutually exclusive
___ mutually exclusive values of variables with ordering or ranking
___ variables have an absolute zero
___ a researcher assigns a #1 to the freshman class and a #2 to the sophomore class
___ the variable of income
___ the top three students in a class ranked by GPA
___ college students listed by major
a. patient satisfaction for the past year - obtained from the hospital's records8. Circle all correct statements about validity:
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b. blood pressure
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c. data from an IQ test
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d. watching school children in a school yard to see how many times a child hits another child
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e. brightness of the lights in the lab
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f. the sharpness of needles
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g. answers to a series of questions from a researcher to a participant/subject over the phone
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h. a paper-and-pencil instrument asking patients about their satisfaction with their care in the hospital
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a. if a tool is proven valid, it is necessarily reliable9. Accuracy of data collection in qualitative research is enhanced by ____________________.
b. content validity is the degree to which measurement reflects the domain of interest and can be established through a literature search
c. using a college entrance exam to predict student success in college is a form of concurrent validity
d. content validity involves demonstrating a correlation between the measurement of interest and another standard that has been shown to be an accurate representation of the underlying concept of interest.
10. Define saturation as it relates to data collection in qualitative
research:
I swear that I completed this open-book test by myself, that I did it
without the assistance of anyone,
and I completed it within 30 minutes.
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