Research Methods
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WILDCARD!
100

This sampling strategy is most appropriate when you want to generalize findings to a larger population.

What is probability sampling?

100

This project is completing an impact study using 17 million student records and 90,000 teacher records.

What is the CHOICE project?

100

This REI Forum member is a triplet and trilingual in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Who is Hannah Shepard-Moore?

100

This REI Forum member won the Michael Jackson Dance-a-like contest at his senior prom

Who is Andrew MacDonald

100

This is the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, the author of the hit novels Middlemarch, Adam Bede, and The Mill on the Floss, among others. 

Who is George Eliot?

200

This type of project requires a full IRB review

What is a systematic investigation with human subjects?

200

Since 2023, ICF has had 6 task orders to carry out research on federal employees’ retirement planning for this client.

What is the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board?

200

This REI Forum member is recently certified as a yoga instructor?

Who is Vanessa Morales?

200

This REI Forum member went skydiving this year

Who is Michael Long?

200

This character actor only appeared in five films in his career (The Godfather Parts I and II, Dog Day Afternoon, The Conversation, and The Deer Hunter), but every single one was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Who is John Cazale

300

This threat to internal validity is most present in a non-equivalent comparison group design.

What is selection bias

300

This project created videos of research-based promising practices to disseminate findings.

What is the Kentucky Read to Succeed project?

300

This REI Forum member has a culinary degree.

Who is Nicole Barnes?

300

This REI Forum continues to swim competitively.

Who is James Coloma?

300

This Italian Renaissance painter spent much of his career as a fugitive in Naples after killing someone in a bar fight in Rome.

Who is Caravaggio?

400

In qualitative research, one has reached this point when no new themes emerge from additional data.

What is saturation?

400

This project works with community based organizations and child welfare to implement a county prevention plan.

What is San Francisco Family First? 

400

This REI Forum member welcomed the newest CWE baby.

Who is Katelyn Lyons?

400

These two REI Forum members were each married in the same year and each had their children born in the same year.

Who are Sam Spinney and Kristen Usher?

400

This Russian empress was born in Poland as Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst, but ruled Russia for almost 35 years after deposing her husband in 1762.

Who is Catherine II, aka The Great

500

In multilevel modeling (i.e., hierarchical linear modeling), these units typically represent groups or clusters in which individuals are nested.

What are level 2 units?

500

This project has contracted and renewed for multiple option years by piggy backing of other ICF contracts.

What is Riverside County Family First?

500

This REI Forum member once encountered Michael Jackson in the lobby of a hotel.

Who is Brian Moss?

500

This REI Forum member has worked in Washington, North Carolina, and Florida.

Who is Simon Pipkin?

500

This Rossini opera follows the zany antics of Figaro as he tries to help Count Almaviva woo the gentle Rosina.

What is The Barber of Seville