STA630 Midterm Past Paper 2

STA630 Mid Term

Mr. Latif is measuring students' attitudes on a controversial topic. Which of the following would you recommend he use to control for the potential problem of students feeling the need to respond with socially acceptable responses?

1. Ensure construct validity
2. Allow anonymous responses
3. Ensure reliability
4. Ensure confidentiality

Which of the following scales can measure the Temperature?

1. Nominal scale
2. Ordinal scale
3. Interval scale
4. All of the given options

Following are the properties of nominal scale, except;

1. Least powerful
2. Suggest no order
3. Provide categorical information
4. Provide magnitude of object

Which of the following is NOT the implication of Ordinal scale?

1. Characteristics of nominal scale
2. Rank the object
3. Does not provide magnitude of object
4. Provide rate

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Which of the following statements is correct about validity and reliability?

1. When internal validity is high, external validity is low
2. When internal validity is high, there is no change in external validity
3. When internal validity is high, external validity is also high
4. All of the given options

When you are confident that the experimental manipulation produced the changes you measured in the dependent variable, your study probably has good ________ validity.

1. Internal
2. External
3. Causal
4. Construct

Mr. Ali has conducted an extensive review of the literature and has deductively reasoned a hypothesis about his problem on the basis of this review. Which type of a research plan is Mr. Ali likely proposing?

1. Qualitative
2. Ethical
3. Both quantitative and qualitative
4. Quantitative

Which of the following is a legitimate purpose of a research plan?

1. It forces you to think through every aspect of a study.
2. It provides detailed procedures to guide the conduct of the study.

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1. It provides clear roadmap of the study.
2. Writing a plan facilitates the evaluation of it.

In the statement ‘Smoke badly destroys health of people’ what is the unit of analysis?

1. Transportation
2. Individuals
3. Pollutants
4. Drugs

While studying supervisor-subordinate relationship in an organization, what is the unit of analysis?

1. Individual
2. Dyad
3. Employer-employee
4. Organization

Which of the following types of survey research is often used for program evaluation or accreditation purposes?

1. Developmental surveys
2. Followup studies
3. Public opinion polls
4. No survey research is appropriate