Exam 6: Measurement, Validity, and Reliability

As long as there is an answer option for every possible respondent, our survey item is mutually exclusive.

________ level of measurement simply codes the answer options and provides us with the least amount of detail.

A _______, such as victim harm, is a specifiable aspect of a concept.

Discuss the four different levels of measurement and the types of information we can get from each.

We need to ___________ concepts to make them measurable.

Why do we code survey answers into numbers?

A variable with a finite number of values is known as __________.

The stability or consistency of a measurement is known as __________

If we suspect that those who drop out of a court-recommended anger management program will be more likely to be arrested within a year, arrest is considered the dependent variable.

The highest levels of measurement, and the most informative, are ________ and ____________.

Likert scales are generally on a scale of 0 to 100.

Ensuring that all the researchers conducting data collection were trained in the same manner is an example of face validity.

_______ refers to the extent to which we are accurately measuring what we intend to measure.

How do variables and constants differ?

A question "what is your hair color" would have ordinal-level response options.

A _________ is an attribute that does not vary at all from case to case.

How do discrete and continuous variables differ?

What is operationalization?

Predictive validity assessments, such as the SATs and GREs, aim to predict future performance.

What is the process of assigning numerical values to answer options on our surveys?