Exam 11: Quasi-Experimental Designs and Applied Research

The needs analysis done at the Du Pont Company included all of the following except

What is the advantage of doing a formative evaluation?

Each of the following studies illustrates a nonequivalent control group design EXCEPT

Consider the methodological principles you have learned about so far. The Hollingworth's Coca-Cola study incorporating several of these principles. Which of the following did they not use in their study?

In a nonequivalent control group study,

Interrupted time series designs

Program audits are most likely to be associated with which type of program evaluation?

If a researcher decides to insure through matching that two nonequivalent groups start with the same pretest score, results could very likely be affected by

Early psychologists often tried to adapt laboratory methods to solve applied problems. For instance, Stanford psychologist Walter Miles tried to help the football team by adapting which method?

Collectively, persons with a direct interest in a program are known as

A needs analysis is designed to answer the question:

Applied research done in a field setting

There were a record 324 automobile fatalities in Connecticut in 1955, which prompted a statewide crackdown on speeding. The next year there were 284 fatalities. What did Campbell conclude from his evaluation of the state's program?

A summative evaluation is designed to answer the question:

Which of the following was true about Trudel et al.'s (2015)study on color-coded nutrition labels?

According to Campbell, why is regression to the mean such a likely explanation when evaluating the effects of social programs (e.g., speeding crackdowns)?

The time series study on California's "three strikes and you're out" program to reduce crime used which of the following variations on the basic time series design?

In Wood and Bootzin's (1990)study of nightmares following earthquakes, what design was used?

What is the defining feature of an interrupted time series with switching replications?

What makes a nonequivalent control group design a quasi-experimental design?