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Methods Of Data Collection Quiz 8 (30 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following describes a standard open-ended interview.
2. What is a dependent variable in a science experiment/investigation?
3. Which of the following is true concerning observation?
4. Which sampling technique is being used? An owner of a shop want to know what her customers think about the new line of products she has gotten in. She interviews the first 15 people who come into her store and records their responses.
5. A principal orders t-shirts and wants to check some of them to make sure they were printed properly. She randomly selects 2 of the 10 boxes of shirts and checks every shirt in those 2 boxes.What type of sampling method is this?
6. Instructors teaching research methods are interested in knowing what study techniques their students are utilizing in class. Rather than assessing all students, the researchers randomly select 10 students from each of the sections to comprise their sample.
7. A random selection of people are called every morning for a week to determine if television shows are too violent.
8. It is a method that describes the behavior of the respondents that can be done either in a naturalistic or laboratory setting.
9. Primary data is preferred over secondary data where:
10. Ellie has a hunch that most of the students in her school are against the new dress code. At lunch time, she takes an opinion survey of the girls sitting at her table.
11. The middle value when the data are in numerical order
12. While students are lined up for school pictures, a teacher passes out a survey to every 10th student.
13. A researcher for an airline interviews all of the passengers on a flight he happens to be taking home from a recent trip.
14. Determining if students using a calculator on a math final exam score better than students who do not use a calculator
15. Open-ended questions provide primarily ..... data.
16. A random selection of people are called every morning for a week to determine if television shows are too violent. What type of data collection method is this?
17. Report numbers with decimals with the following EXCEPT ONE
18. Closed-ended surveys and online quizzes are based on .....
19. You design a short questionnaire that asks students about their attendance and grades in biology class.
20. Select three students from a class to receive ice cream by putting all the students' names in a hat and picking out three names randomly.
21. In a large biology lecture, you randomly select 25 students and keep track of their attendance throughout one semester. When the semester ends, you record their grades from the list posted at the front of the classroom.
22. Which primary data collection method involves collecting data through written questionnaires sent to respondents?
23. Identify the data collection method used.Scientist think the new medicine that made may help lower blood sugar. They select 100 males and 100 females of all ages with diabetes and randomly assign each one to a group that receives the medicine or a group that gets a placebo
24. Marianne wanted to know students' opinion on the new schedule at school. She places students' names in a container and randomly picks out 20 names.What type of sampling method is this?
25. Allows the person completing the questionnaire to give their answer in their own words
26. Which of the following is a merit of a good questionnaire?
27. Identify the sampling design:Mr. Rhodes puts all of his students' names in a hat and randomly selects one without looking.
28. Another name for a Likert Scale is a(n)
29. Sample is regarded as a subset of?
30. Identify the sampling design:Student government randomly samples 25 students of each of the four classes.
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