Exam 6: Conducting Research That Describes People: What Are the Traits That Describe the Good Manager

Which research question poses the greatest difficulty in defining the variable to measure and developing a tool for measuring that variable?

The credibility of your measurement tool (e.g., the Beck Depression Inventory) is determined by the extent it has ______.

The nominal level of measurement is a higher level of measurement than the interval level.

You can generalize the study findings from your sample to your population on a scientific basis if you have a ______ sample.

In descriptive research, conclusions are drawn from the ______.

Which one of these questions is the least clear in regard to identifying what needs to be measured in a study?

When you employ qualitative measurement, you typically have a number that represents the variable.

You can compute the mean for a variable measured at what level?

The median is the midpoint value in a set of values laid out in numerical order.

Explain why you are more likely to see qualitative measurement, rather than quantitative measurement, in an exploratory study than a study that is descriptive, explanatory, or evaluative.

What are the purposes of social work research, according to the text?

What is an advantage of recording age in actual years rather than categories of years in an information system?

Suppose that someone reported on a study with the following summary: This study had the purpose of describing people who are victims of domestic violence. It discovered that victims of family violence were found in various social classes, various races, and various sections of the nation. It was concluded that family violence is not restricted to social class, race, or geography. Information from what phase of the research process is missing from this description? Is it Phase 1 (the research question and knowledge base), Phase 2 (the methods used to conduct the study), Phase 3 (data collection and analysis), or Phase 4 (drawing conclusions)?

What type of study is more likely to use qualitative measurement?

Explain whether you can have reliability if you do not have validity, or validity without having reliability.

You typically predict the outcome when you engage in descriptive research, but you do not when you engage in explanatory research.

You can generalize your study findings to your study population on a scientific basis if you employ a convenience sample.

Which research question represents descriptive research?

In descriptive research, your sample is comprised of the ______.

Suppose you measured the concept of sex-role stereotype about management by asking a group of people to select 8 items that best described the good manager from a list of 16 items. One half of these 16 items had been found to represent the male stereotype and one half had been found to represent the female stereotype. You measured the variable of sex-role stereotype by summing the male-stereotyped items selected by the respondent. At what level have you measured the variable of sex-role stereotype?