Exam 5: Research Design and Measurement

A measure validity that relies on a preexisting and already accepted measure to verify the indicator of a construct is called _____________.

According to the text, ____________ is the bedrock of quality scholarship.

Variables such as sex, religion, and race are _____________ measurements.

A scale often used in survey research in which people express attitudes or other responses in terms of ordinal-level categories that are ranked along a continuum is called a ____________________.

What are the three types of reliability? Explain each in detail.

An interval-level of measurement is _________________.

Today's temperature and IQ scores are an example of __________.

The definition of a variable in terms of the specific actions to measure or indicate it in the empirical world is called _____________.

What are the four types of validity? Describe each in detail.

Construct validity is ______________.

Validity means __________or truthfulness.

The process of moving from a construct's conceptual definition to specific activities or measures that allow a researcher to observe it empirically is called _______.

The lowest least precise level of measurement is called…?

Researchers verify equivalence reliability with the _____________.

_____refers to the process of moving from a construct's conceptual definition to specific activities or measure that allows a researcher to observe it empirically.

All of the following are ways to improve reliability EXCEPT

A scale in which the researcher gives a group of judges many items and asks them to sort the items into categories along a continuum, and then looks at sorting results to select items on which the judges are in agreement is called a ____________.

A system for organizing information in the measurements of variables into four levels, from nominal level to ratio level is called ______________.

______ is the principle that when using multiple indicators to measure a construct, all the indicators should consistently fit together and indicate a single construct.

Equivalence reliability is reliability across groups; a measure that yields consistent results for various social groups. An indicator has high representative reliability if it yields the same result for a construct when applied to different subpopulations.