Levels of Measurement
Quantitative Measurement terms
Definitions of Characteristics of Data
Methods of Data Collection
Sampling
100
"The question what is your gender" is what level of measurement
What is Nominal
100
Can be obtained from essay questions, matching or true-false
What is Knowledge or cognitive variables
100
An empirical estimate of the extent to which an instrument produces the same result, applied once or two or more times.
What is reliability
100
questions asking age, gender and race are examples of
What is Self reporting of demographic data
100
How many individuals are needed for planners to feel confident that error is within an acceptable range and that conclusions can be drawn from the data analyzed.
What is Sample size
200
How would you describe your level of satisfication with your Primary Care Physician is which level of measurement
What is Ordinal
200
Obtained from the use of scales
What is Attitude or psychosocial variables
200
whether an instrument correctly measures what it is intended to measure.
What is validity
200
Asking a student to observe the number of people displaying a specific behavior is.
What is Indirect observation
200
A type of sample in which every student in class would have an equal opportunity of being selected.
What is probability sample
300
The question Given the following ranges, what is your GPA is what level of measurement
What is Interval
300
May be self reported or observed
What is Behavior variables
300
The degree to which a measure correlates with other measures it is theoretically expected to correlate with.
What is construct validity
300
Accessing patients dental records to determine the effectiveness of flossing is.
What is Reviewing existing records
300
A type of sample in which only students in the first 2 rows would be eligible to participate.
What is nonprobability sample
400
Using a 1-5 scale rank your satisfaction with each of your current courses is what level of measurement
What is ordinal
400
May be self reported or determined from clinical data
What is Health variables
400
The assessment of the correspondence between the items composing the instrument and the content domain from which the items were selected.
What is Content Validity
400
Distributing a survey in this class to determine needs of NU Seniors is a method of.
What is Sampling
400
A type of sample in which every 3rd student alphabetically would be eligible to participate.
What is Systemic sample
500
The question what was your caloric intake yesterday is an example of what level of measurement
What is ratio
500
Factors or conditions outside a person
What is Environmental variables
500
The extent to which data generated from a measurement instrument are correlated with the data generated from a measure of the phenomenon being studied.
What is Criterion-related validity
500
A gathering of faculty, and students from HS and the MPH program to discuss the need for research into disparities in the urban community
What is a meeting.
500
A sample in which only 4 students in this class could be selected to participate in a study of Bouve Seniors.
What is Proportional stratified random sample
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