18 Oct A research question is a declarative statement which can be tested to determine the probability of it being true or false.

Question 1A research question is a declarative statement which can be tested to determine the probability of it being true or false.

 

True

 

False

 

 Question 2A researcher uses observation of children and their parents in a busy fast food restaurant to count the number of times certain behaviors occur within a one hour period. This research is _____.

 

  

 

descriptive, qualitative, non-experimental

 

experimental, quantitative

 

correlational, non-experimental, quantitative

 

descriptive, non-experimental, quantitative

 

Question 3Which of the following is NOT a requirement for a study to be a true experiment?

 

manipulation of an independent variable

 

random assignment of participants to groups or conditions

 

control of extraneous variables

 

purposive sampling to recruit participants

 

Question 4A researcher uses observation of children and their parents in a busy fast food restaurant to prepare a vivid description of the behaviors and interactions among people present. This research is _____.

 

descriptive, qualitative, non-experimental

 

experimental, quantitative

 

correlational, non-experimental, quantitative

 

descriptive, non-experimental, quantitative

 

 Question 5A research approach that uses words or images as data instead of numbers is called _____.

 

descriptive

 

non-experimental

 

qualitative

 

quantitative

 

Question 6Hypothesis testing is done in quantitative research but not in qualitative research.

 

True

 

False

 

Question 7In quantitative research, the hypothesis to be tested must be specified before data collection begins.

 

True

 

False

 

Question 8An educational researcher wants to find out if the amount of homework assigned to middle school students affects the students’ level of academic self-efficacy. Several schools are selected and invited to participate. In each school, participating classes are randomly assigned to receive either three hours of homework on weeknights or less than one hour of homework each night for the duration of the study. Self-efficacy of the students in the two groups of classes is measured and compared. This research is _____.

 

  

 

descriptive, qualitative, non-experimental

 

 experimental, quantitative

 

correlational, non-experimental, quantitative

 

 descriptive, non-experimental, quantitative

 

Question 9A non-experimental research approach that examines relationships between variables is called _____.

 

correlational

 

descriptive

 

experimental

 

quasi-experimental

 

Question 10A research approach that can explain a cause and effect relationship between variables, and is characterized by manipulation of an independent variable, random assignment of participants to groups or conditions, and control of unwanted variables is called _____.

 

correlational

 

descriptive

 

experimental

 

quasi-experimental

 

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