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A Type I Error - ✔✔Dr. Jones wanted to know if the use of the Good Behavior Game decreased
rates of disruptive
behaviors in an elementary school. Dr. Jones collected data throughout the duration of the
school
year across two elementary schools. In school A, all k-6 classrooms used the Good Behavior
Game. In School B, no classrooms used the Good Behavior Game. At the end of the school
year,
Dr. Jones shouted, "Eureka! The Good Behavior Game works," when in fact it had no impact
on
student disruptive behavior. This is an example of:
A. Describe what is known about a topic.
B. Build a rationale for the study.
C. Identify research procedures to strengthen a study.
D. All of the above**** - ✔✔The primary purpose of the literature review is to:
The participant serves as his or her own control - ✔✔Which of the following is true about
single-case research design?
,A. The rejection of the null hypothesis is more decisive in larger sample sizes.
B. Large enough sample sizes will always show a significant difference between
populations.
C. Statistical analysis may fail to reject the null hypothesis in small sample sizes.
D. All of the above are true**** - ✔✔Which of the following is a limitation of using statistical
significance to differentiate between
meaningful and trivial change?
A. Group designs only have one or two measurement occasions.
B. Group designs provide no information on
which
individual subjects changed.
C. Group designs provide no information on
how
the individual subjects changed.
D. All of the above are potential limitations of group design**** - ✔✔Which of the following
is
a limitation of group design?
Group research design methodology - ✔✔Dr. Lestremau is employed in a large, urban school
, district with 10 elementary schools. She
wants to evaluate the use of a new math curriculum to teach multiplication to 3rd grade
students.
She will administer a math pre-test to all students. She will then randomly assign five schools
to
the new math curriculum. The other five schools will keep using the existing curriculum. At
the
end of the year she will administer a math post-test to all students. Dr. Lestremau is using:
frequency of spontaneous greetings - ✔✔Kacyn is a BCBA at an ABA Center. She is running a
small social skills group with 6 children
who have autism spectrum disorder. Kacyn is using the "Tough Kids Social Skills Curriculum."
The goal of the social skills sessions is to build basic social entry skills (e.g., making eye
contact,
greetings, responding to name). Prior to the start of the group, Kacyn collected data for each
of
the participants. Specifically, she asked the therapists to complete the BASC-2 (a rating scale
that
measures changes in behavior and emotional status) and also collected the frequency of
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