Exam 14: Evaluating the Results Section

Those who are conducting and writing these sophisticated research articles typically have extensive backgrounds in statistics or employ a consultant who has considerable expertise with statistics.

Reading and understanding the results section is probably the most daunting part of evaluating a research article for those who are somewhat intimidated by research and the use of math and statistics.

The most commonly used methods of descriptive statistics are ______ and ______.

Inferential statistical methods are used by researchers to summarize the data collected based on the sample in a particular research study.

Discuss when to use descriptive and inferential statistics.

Keeping in mind that analysis of qualitative data is based on a ______model, the researcher may consider the use of ______ as an attempt to describe and organize data beyond simple literal interpretations.

______ violation of assumption of parametric statistics involves similarity of variance among groups.

There are two major categories of quantitative research, and these include ______.

The specific number of violations of assumptions required to use nonparametric statistics is ______.

Which types of statistical methods are used by researchers to generalize results back to the population of interest?

Discuss the results from the Ross et al. (2011) study and the evaluation of whether there were any violations of assumptions.

Much of the research you will read in psychology and education will be based on collected data that does not fit a normal curve.

List the guidelines for evaluating the results section in quantitative research and explain the importance of each.

An important question to address when reading the results section is whether any violations of assumptions were made.

______ are used to report results based on the sample.

Descriptive statistics are drawn from ______.

Qualitative research is presented in the results section in the form of ______.

Which of the following guideline(s) are used for evaluating the results section in quantitative research?

There are entire graduate-level courses in statistical procedures, such as analyses of variance, regression, structural equation modeling, nonparametric statistics, and so on.

______ are used to make decisions or reach conclusions about whether results obtained from a sample can be applied to the target population.