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Educational Research Quiz

Test your knowledge on educational research concepts with our engaging quiz! This quiz is designed to help you understand various sampling strategies, hypotheses, and the significance of representativeness in research. Whether you're a student or an educator, this quiz will challenge your understanding and solidify your learning.

What you will learn:

Sampling Methods
Independent and Dependent Variables
Research Justifications
Effective Survey Design

12 Questions3 MinutesCreated by ExploringKnowledge42

Principal Mesutoglu has decided to consider changes to her school policy because some parents had concerns about the current policy. She leaves a stack of surveys at her office desk and as parents come to pick up their children, she asks them to take the time to complete the survey. Which of the following does this strategy illustrate?

Simple random

Stratified ranom

Convenience

Purposive

You are studying children with asthma. The clinic where you are doing your study has 300 children diagnosed with asthma. Your inclusion criteria are children who can speak English, and are older than 10 years of age. 120 children meet the criteria and you have them in your sample. What is the sampling strategy?

Simple random

Stratified ranom

Convenience

Purposive

You go to the mall next weekend to study how people spend their money. You ask all by-passers to participate.

Simple random

Stratified random

Convenience

Purposive

You wish to examine the effects of socio-economic status on diet. You can randomly sample all of the people that work or are patients at a local hospital for the study. You are concerned about the disproportionate number in your sample with higher socio-economic status, while not representing the lower socio-economic groups as proportionately. How would you sample to control for this problem?

Simple random

Stratified random

Convenience

Purposive

You are given a list of all graduating seniors at the university. You decide to survey the 120 names that you choose from a bag and ask what types of activities they participated in while they were at the university. This is an example of _________ sampling.

Simple random

Stratified random

Convenience

Pusposive

In a career readiness research project, 100 students were randomly selected from the psychology program, 150 students were randomly selected from the communications program, and 120 students were randomly selected from cyber security program. This type of sampling is called:

Simple random

Stratified random

Convenience

Purposive

"Students taught biology by programmed instruction will achieve at a higher grade level than those taught biology by the traditional method." The independent variable in this hypothesis is:

Students

Level of achievement

Programmed instruction

Method of instruction

Students taught biology by programmed instruction will achieve at a higher grade level than those taught biology by the traditional method." The dependent variable in this hypothesis is:

Students

Level of achievement

Programmed instruction

A purposive sample is used when...

The individuals to be chosen are believed to have the information desired

The researcher has a clear purpose for the study

The population cannot be specified

Justification for a study is generally based on the study's contribution:

to general knowledge

To professional practice

To theory

All of the above

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