Conceptualization and Measurement MCQs
Conceptualization and Measurement MCQs
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1: Alternate-forms reliability describe a procedure for testing the reliability of responses to survey questions in which subjects’ answers are compared after the subjects have been asked slightly different versions of the questions
A. True
B. False
2: When a fixed choice survey question has an equal number of responses to express positive and negative choices in comparable language is called
A. Balanced response choices
B. Unequal response choices
C. Social response choices
D. Basis response choices
3: A survey question that provides preformatted response choices for the respondent to circle or check is called a _________ -ended question.
A. Opened
B. Closed
C. Social
D. None of above
4: ________ is a mental image that summarizes a set of similar observations, feelings, or ideas.
A. Love
B. Concept
C. Thinking
D. None of above
5: _____________ is the process of specifying what we mean by a term. In deductive research, conceptualization helps translate portions of an abstract theory into specific variables that can be used in testable hypotheses.
A. Validity
B. Conceptualization
C. Idealism
D. All of above
6: __________ validity that exists when scores on a measure are closely related to scores on a criterion measured at the same time.
A. Current
B. Concurrent
C. Constant
D. None of above
7: A number that has a fixed value in a given situation; a characteristic or value that does not change is called
A. Current
B. Concurrent
C. Constant
D. None of above
8: The type of validity that is established by showing that a measure is related to other measures as specified in a theory is called
A. Current Validity
B. Concurrent Validity
C. Construct Validity
D. None of above
9: The type of validity that exists when the full range of a concept’s meaning is covered by the measure is called
A. Current Validity
B. Concurrent Validity
C. Content Validity
D. None of above
10: A measure with numbers indicating the values of variables as points on a continuum is called ________ measure
A. Continuous
B. DisContinuos
C. Constant
D. None of Above
11: An approach to construct validation; the type of validity achieved when one measure of a concept is associated with different types of measures of the same concept is called
A. Current Validity
B. Concurrent Validity
C. Convergent Validity
D. None of above
12: The type of validity that is established by comparing the scores obtained on the measure being validated with those obtained with a more direct or already validated measure of the same phenomenon (the criterion) is called
A. Current Validity
B. Criterion Validity
C. Convergent Validity
D. None of above
13: Cronbach’s alpha explains the statistic commonly used to measure inter item reliability.
A. True
B. False
14: Dichotomy describes the _________ having only two values.
A. Constants
B. Variables
C. Points
D. None of these
15: A measure that classifies cases in distinct categories is called _______ measure
A. Continuous
B. Discrete
C. Constant
D. All of these
16: ___________ validity is achieved if the measure to be validated is related most strongly to its comparison measure and less so to the measures of other concepts.
A. Continuous
B. Discrete
C. Constant
D. Discriminant
17: A question’s response choices are exhaustive when they cover all possible responses is called
A. Socialism
B. Exhaustive
C. Stubborn
D. None of these
18: The type of validity that exists when an inspection of items used to measure a concept suggests that they are appropriate “on their face.” is called ______ validity
A. Continuous
B. Discrete
C. Constant
D. Face
19: Errors that affect individuals or other cases in unique ways that are unlikely to be repeated in just the Same way is called Idiosyncratic errors
A. True
B. False
20: The sum or average of responses to a set of questions about a concept is called
A. Idea
B. Index
C. Summary
D. Thoughts
21: The question or other operation used to indicate the value of cases on a variable is called
A. Idea
B. Index
C. Summary
D. Indicator
22: When the same codes are entered by different coders who are recording the same data is called
A. Corder Reliability
B. Intercoder Reliability
C. Authentic Reliability
D. None of these
23: An approach that calculates reliability based on the correlation among multiple items used to measure a single concept; also known as internal consistency is called
A. Corder Reliability
B. Intercoder Reliability
C. Interitem Reliability
D. None of these
24: When similar measurements are obtained by different observers rating the same persons, events, or places is called
A. Interobserver Reliability
B. Intercoder Reliability
C. Interitem Reliability
D. None of these
25: A interval level of measurement is a variable in which the numbers indicating a variable’s values represent fixed measurement units but have no absolute, or fixed, zero point
A. True
B. False
26: Interval–ratio level of measurement explains a variable in which the numbers indicating a variable’s values represent fixed measurement units but may not have an absolute, or fixed, zero point.
A. True
B. False
27: Consistency of ratings by an observer of an unchanging Phenomenon at two or more points in time is called ________reliability
A. Extrarater
B. Intrarater
C. Exclusive
D. None of Above
28: Level of measurement describes The mathematical precision with which the values of a variable can be expressed. The nominal level of measurement, which is _________, has no mathematical interpretation; the quantitative levels of measurement— ordinal, interval, and ratio.
A. Quantitative
B. Qualitative
C. Specific
D. None of above
29: _______ is the process of linking abstract concepts to empirical indicants.
A. Data
B. Measurement
C. Numerical
D. All of above
30: A question’s response choices are mutually exclusive when every case can be classified as having only one attribute (or value) is called
A. Socially exclusive
B. Culturally exclusive
C. Mutually exclusive
D. None of above
31: Nominal level of measurement describes the Variables whose values have no mathematical interpretation; they vary in kind or quality, but not in amount.
A. True
B. False
32: A survey question to which the respondent replies in his or her own words, either by writing or by ________ is called an open ended question.
A. Showing
B. Talking
C. Representing
D. None of above
33: The process of specifying the measures that will indicate the value of cases on a _________ is called operationalization.
A. Constants
B. Variables
C. Points
D. Numbers
34: The Ordinal level of measurement explains a variable in which the numbers indicating a variable’s values specify only the order of the cases, permitting greater than and less than distinctions.
A. True
B. False
35: The type of validity that exists when a measure predicts scores on a criterion measured in the future is called
A. Predictive Validity
B. Predictive Data
C. Predictive Value
D. None of above
36: Ratio level of measurement of a variable in which the numbers indicating a variable’s values represent fixed measuring units and an absolute ______ point.
A. One
B. Zero
C. Two
D. All of above
37: When a measurement procedure yields consistent scores when the phenomenon being measured is not changing is called
A. Measures
B. Reliability
C. Falsifiability
D. None of above
38: _________ measures describes the Statistics that summarize the consistency among a set of measures; Cronbach’s alpha is the most common measure of the reliability of a set of items included in an index.
A. Fakeness
B. Reliability
C. Systematic
D. None of above
39: Reliability is achieved when responses to the same questions by two randomly selected halves of a sample are about the same is called
A. Full-half reliability
B. Split-half reliability
C. Half reliability
D. All of above
40: _____________ errors that result from factors that are not what an instrument is intended to measure and that affect individuals or other cases in ways that are likely to recur in just the same way, thus creating measurement bias.
A. Non-Systematic
B. Systematic
C. Validity
D. None of above
41: ______________ is a measurement showing that measures of a phenomenon at two points in time are highly correlated, if the phenomenon has not changed or has changed only as much as the measures have changed
A. Test–Retest reliability
B. Test–Source reliability
C. Test–Data reliability
D. None of above
42: When a fixed choice survey question has a different number of positive and negative response choices is called _____________ responses choices
A. Balanced
B. Unbalanced
C. Special
D. Specific
43: Unobtrusive measure describes a measurement based on physical traces or other data that are collected without the knowledge or participation of the individuals or groups that generated the data.
A. True
B. False
44: Operationalization is the process by which we specify what is meant by a term.
A. True
B. False
45: Closed-ended questions are appropriate when the range of responses cannot be anticipated because the questions have never been used or because the questions are being asked of new groups.
A. True
B. False
46: Indexes are often scored as interval levels of measurement.
A. True
B. False
47: In deductive analysis, conceptualization precedes operationalization.
A. True
B. False
48: Questions are very rarely used in experiments and qualitative research.
A. True
B. False
49: Photographs can never be used as a reliable source of information when investigating the social world.
A. True
B. False
50: Decisions about how to define a concept reflect the theoretical framework that guides the researchers.
A. True
B. False
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