Walter Kronkite
What is the goal of a research report?
What is disseminating knowledge?
What is a manipulation check?
What is determining whether the independent variable worked the way it was intended--or the levels of the independent variable behaved as expected?
How would you pronounce the names of these three symbols: α, β, Σ, and x2?
What is Alpha, Beta, Sigma, and Chi-squared?
What do N and n represent?
What is sample size and sample subgroup, respectively?
i.e. "Respondents were recruited from communication courses (N=65). Males represented a smaller proportion of the sample (n=25) than women (n=40)" (Morgan, Reichert, and Harrison 2017:24).
What is the survey research concept used to describe the necessity for providing a response category for all possible answers?
What is collectively exhaustive?
There are two qualities of writing that are most important in research reports. What is one of the two qualities?
What is open to inspection OR ability to replicate (confirm conclusions/assumptions)?
In the results section, the hypothesis is restated and followed by what piece of information?
What is a brief description of the statistical analysis performed and the outcome of that analysis?
What does alpha (α) represent?
What is probability of Type I error (failing to reject "true" null hypothesis) or Chronbach's index of internal consistency (measurement of scale reliability)?
When should you use the percent symbol? When should you spell percent?
What is when a numeral precedes the percentage and when you spell the numeral?
i.e. Twenty-five percent of respondents reported sleeping through class at least once during the semester. However, 75% of respondents reported falling asleep during class at some point during their college career.
What name is given to the tendency for survey respondents to agree or answer positively?
What is acquiescence bias?
What is the primary goal of a results section?
What is summarizing data collection and statistical treatment of data?
What is .05 and .01?
What does beta (β) represent?
What is the probability of Type II error (failing to reject a "false" null hypothesis); statistical power (the probability of failing to reject a "false" null hypothesis); or standardized multiple regression coefficient (measurement of how strongly the IVs affect the DVs in regression)?
What type of statistic should accompany a percentage?
What is a frequency?
i.e. A total of 50% (n=100) of students reported studying two or more hours for final exams. However, few (10%; n=20) reported studying for final exams for more than 10 hours during finals week.
In survey research, there are three reasons why respondents satisfice. What are those three reasons?
What is lacking ability, lacking motivation, and task difficulty?
Three types of information should be included in a quantitative research report. What are two of these three types of information?
What are 1) Manipulation checks (ensuring that the IV worked the way it was intended); 2. Results of hypothesis testing; and 3) Results summarized in tables and figures?
What should you do if your test results were not significant?
What all relevant results, even if they are contrary to what you expected?
What does sigma (Σ) represent?
Besides frequencies and percentages, what two types of descriptive statistics are the most commonly reported by researchers?
What is mean (M or x̄) and dispersion of measure (SD)?
Which type of scale best describes the following response categories: very poor, poor, fair, good, excellent?
What is a bipolar scale?
In the results section, it is important to remember at this stage only to describe the results and not to ____________.
What is draw conclusions?
The authors name two tests of assumptions that should be included in reporting results. What is one of those two tests?
What is homogeneity of variance (e.g. ANOVA; normality/outliers) OR interdependence (e.g., Chi-Square or Fisher's Exact)?
When would you use a chi-square test (x2)?
What is when it is necessary to determine whether a relationship exists between two categorical variables?
When should a researcher use tables and where should these tables be located?
What is only when expanding or clarifying what is written in the text. Tables should be placed in appendices, following the reference page. Tables should be used sparingly!
Name one optimum unipolar scale focused on quantity.
What is: not at all, slightly, moderately, very, extremely
OR
none at all, a little, a moderate amount, a lot, a great deal