Question - Answers Instrument to collect information by asking respondents ( <-- self-respond)
The 4 main methods of administrating a questionnaire - Answers Mail survey, online survey,
interview surveys, and telephone surveys.
experiment - Answers controls the environment of the subject( treatment vs. non-treatment)
Obeservational study - Answers we look but we do not control the subject. we collect data
types of questions - Answers open-ended and closed ended
open-ended - Answers ask respondent to provided their own answer, they are more flexable, we
can clarify for the responded, it is qualitative research.
close ended questions - Answers provided a list of answers and let respondents choose,
Greater uniformity, Easy process, quentitaive research, cannot have exhaustive, mutually
exclusive
exhaustive - Answers includes all possible respondents, (ex religion: Islamic, catholic, budism,
and more)
Mutually exclusive - Answers only one response can be chosen( how satisfied are you with the
service a. good b.great c. awesome)
mail surveys - Answers Ask responds to complete self administered questionnaires by home
delivery or mailing (--> "mail" survey)
Basic method
Online survey - Answers Some questionnaines like mail survey.
Difference the use of internet and the world wide web, instead of mailings ( "online" survey)
Interview survey - Answers interviews ask questions ovally, or face-to-face, and record
respondents answer
Telephone Survey - Answers Interviews ask questions over the phone and record respondents
answers.
available records - Answers data collected or processed by others
Secondary Analysis - Answers Types 1: re-analysis of large scale survey data collected and
processed by other researchers
type 2: Existing statistics
, Attrition effects are automatically controlled when participants are assigned randomly to
experimental and control groups - Answers false
when asking questionnaire items, the interviewer should - Answers ask every question even if
the respondent has apparently answered it already
Suppose you instruct a couple to have a typical conversation while you observe them in your
office. This would be an example - Answers obtrusive observation
pre-experimentaldesign - Answers are the weakest experimental designs
Latent coding has the advantage of tapping underlying meanings, while reliability is an
advantage of manifest coding - Answers True
Suppose a case management program is established to reduce re-hospitalization rates in a
hospital and that those rates drop dramatically once the new program is established. We can
conclude - Answers another event occurring during the time of the study might explain away the
change
It is often as important to report that variables are unrelated as to report that they are related -
Answers true
in contrast to interviews, self-administered questionnaires have the advantage of - Answers
handling sensitive issues more effectively
For social scientist, an advantage to utilizing official records for data is - Answers the data can
be obtained with limited financial cost.
Program evaporators should involve stakeholders in planning an evaluation - Answers true
The qualitative researcher - Answers
Target problems van be quantified in terms of their - Answers
Questionnaires - Answers
Professor Perlman was interested in comparing two textbooks to determine whether one used
more sexiest language than the other. Perlman counted the number of times a gender reference
appeared in each book. Perlman was doing. - Answers manifest content coding
After examining the FBI Crime Reports for a 30-year period , Professor Hall claimed that the
incidence of rape has increased. After examining the same reports, Professor Shine claimed
that the reporting of rape, not the incidence of rape, has increased. The illustrates - Answers the
problem of reliability in using existing statistics
When follow-up are planned with mail surveys, - Answers response rates typically increase