Experiments...
When the variation in one variable causes variation in another variable, this is referred to as ______.
________ data provides the option of investigating large data sets.
What is secondary data?
A _______ evaluation provides information about whether a program is reaching its objectives or not.
What is a summative evaluation?
In data analysis, the “n” usually refers to the ______.
The ______ represents the numeric center or midpoint of a data distribution.
What is the midpoint?
The subjects or other units of interest receiving treatment in a study are called the ______.
What is an experimental group?
Secondary use data that is available for anyone to use is called ______.
A ______ evaluation provides information about planning and improving the program.
What is a formative evaluation?
The primary purpose of researchers conducting research is to ______.
What is answer a research question?
The ability to generalize experimental research findings to the population of interest in the “real world” is referred to as ______.
What is external validity?
The 3 criteria to determine a causal relationship.
What are association, temporal ordering, and lack of spurious relationships?
Opting to leave a question blank on a survey or questionnaire is referred to as ______.
What is non-response?
The design of multiple approaches, policies, or programs to address the problem of interest is referred to as ______.
What is policy formulation?
After conducting data analysis, researchers can make _________ based on patterns in the data.
What are conclusions?
Lack of proper knowledge pertaining to the research is not a challenge of getting ________ research to policymakers.
What is policy-relevant research?
When the values in the independent variable and the values in the dependent variable move together in a pattern or are correlated there is a demonstration of ______.
What is association?
Data stripped of personal information, such as names and phone numbers is called ______.
What is de-identified data?
Principles, rules, and laws that guide a government, organization, or people are called ______.
What are policies?
A group of descriptive statistics that numerically describe the “typical” case and include the mean, median, and mode are referred to as ______.
What are measures of central tendancy?
Cost-effectiveness is a criterion associated with which of the following standards of an effective evaluation?
What is feasibility?
The most rigorous true experiment is the ______.
What is the two-group pre-test-treatment-post-test design?
The main role of the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research is to archive _____ and _____ research data.
What are political and social research data?
Name the stages of the policy cycle.
What are agenda setting, policy formulation, policy adoption, policy implementation, and policy evaluation?
Extreme values in a data distribution that are much lower or higher than the other distribution scores are called ______.
What are outliers?
What are the range, interquartile range, variance, and standard deviation?