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Levels of Measurement
Reliability & Validity
Questions
Ethics
Pot Pourri
100
Drink size
What is ordinal
100
Measure is consistent over multiple occasions
What is inter-rater reliability
100
The teaching assistants in this course were helpful and responsive.
What is a double-barreled question
100
a. Children b. Prisoners c. Pregnant women d. Mentally disabled people
What are protected populations?
100
The variable that a researcher manipulates in an experiment
What is the independent variable?
200
Number of crimes arrested for
What is ratio level
200
The extent to which we can generalize the results of a study to other participants
What is external validity
200
“How much do you like chocolate since it is supposed to be a great aphrodisiac?”
What is a leading question?
200
Names are never known to the researcher
What is anonymity?
200
A common way of controlling extraneous variables in an experiment
What is random assignment?
300
Race
What is nominal
300
Accuracy with which it measures the construct.
What is validity
300
Do you approve of the President’s oppressive immigration policy?
What is a loaded question?
300
The over-riding principle governing ethical research behaviour
What is to protect research participants and their communities from harm?
300
The behavior that is measured during an experiment
What is the dependent variable?
400
Social Security Number
What is nominal
400
Test produces stable and consistent results.
What is reliability
400
What is your current occupation? ___________________________
What is an open ended question?
400
Holding secret all information relating to an individual, unless the individual gives consent permitting disclosure
What is confidentiality?
400
When one variable goes up as another goes down
What is negative correlation?
500
Age
What is ratio
500
Involves associating the instrument of interest to an overall theoretical framework
What is construct validity
500
Questions that deal with matters of judgement, value, and choice.
What are evaluative questions?
500
Designed to inform research subjects about the purpose, risks, potential benefits and alternatives to the research
What is informed consent
500
Research method used to look for a causal relationship
What is the experimental method?