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INP 402 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSWhat are 3 key steps in Evaluation? - Answers-Criteria, evidence, judgement
Define criteria - Answers-Goals & objectives, how things are evaluated or studied.
Ex: the criteria would be someone disliking food prices vs. the service experience
Define evaluation - Answers-Improves an area (policies, places)
Define Research - Answers-To prove or disapprove a hypothesis
What are the best practices in Literature? - Answers--finding sources in books, journals,
reports
-evaluating how it fits into proposed questions
IOP Method - Answers--Intervention (predictor variable)
-Outcome (outcome variable)
-People (population)
Which of the following is the first step in the development of a questionnaire or test? -
Answers-Define the problem
Which of the following are potential advantages of open-ended questions? - Answers--
Provide responses not currently known
-adds richness to the data
Which of the following are advantages of close-ended questions? - Answers--The
easiest format to quickly analyze
-can be easily coded for data entry
Which of the following is an advantage of using a 4-point Likert scale? - Answers-Forces
the respondent to "take a stand"
What is the role of Introduction? - Answers--literature review
-states why it is important
Nominal (race, ethnicity) - Answers-Precise (no order)
Ex: yes, no questions
-hair color, gender
Ordinal (gold, silver, bronze medals) - Answers-Rank, in order
Ex: unsatisfied, neutral, satisfied
-high school grad, college grad
Interval/Ratio (temperature, height) - Answers-In order, difference between categories,
distance between levels
, Ex: scale 1-5
How early do you wake up? 8-10AM, 10-12PM, etc
Scale vs Single Item Measure - Answers-Scale: straight to the point
Ex: Does he like you?
Single Item Measure: asks more questions that beat around the bush
Ex: "does he know you?"
"Have you guys talked?"
Define instrument, items, scales - Answers-Instrument: survey/checklist
Items: questions being asked
Ex: "please rate your agreement with the following statement- people in this community
are kind."
Scales- 1-5 (strongly disagree to strongly agree)
Three Designs - Answers-Cross sectional
Longitudinal
Experimental
Cross sectional - Answers-different age groups are tested at the same time
Ex: Do you meditate? What is your stress level?
Longitudinal - Answers-measures a trait in a particular group of subjects over a long
period of time
Ex: how stressed are you?
Experimental - Answers-to explore cause and effect
Ex: How stressed are you? (Asks random people)
Correlation - Answers-relationship between two things
Causation - Answers-the action of causing something
Three criteria for casualty - Answers--correlation
-time order
-non spuriousness
Non spuriousness - Answers-Two things are related but one thing did not cause the
other
Ex: shark attacks and ice sales increase during the summer but do not cause one
another
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