Exam 8: Experiments for Evaluation Research

If you use a convenience sample for participation in the experiment, and then probability sampling for group assignment, can you generalize your results to the larger population?

You are evaluating the efficacy of a disaster preparation program in campus dorms focused on emergency evacuation. You decide to provide surveys before and after residents complete the program to gauge self-reported levels of disaster preparedness. What component of research is this?

How will you ensure quality control in your data collection procedures?

Which type of study design will you use for this research? How will it differ from a classical experiment and why? How will this affect the validity of your results?

Which of the following is considered LEAST damaging to the validity of experimental design?

How will you ensure quality control in your data collection procedures?

How would you clean your data?

How will you assign subjects to research groups? Why? What are the pros and cons of this approach?

How will you draw a sample of participants for your research? Why?

You are doing research evaluating the effectiveness of an anti-harassment campaign in your company. You will ask subjects to fill out a survey about their attitudes about and experiences with workplace harassment both before and after the campaign. Write a research question for this research project.

Program evaluation is research that ______.

How would you clean your data?

What steps will you need to take to protect your participants?

What are the threats to internal validity, and how would you try to minimize them?

Which type of study design will you use for this research? How will it differ from a classical experiment and why? How will this affect the validity of your results?

Identify the independent and dependent variables in your hypotheses.

Will informed consent be needed for your study? Why or why not?

Identify the independent and dependent variables in your hypotheses.

Conceptualize one dependent variable from your hypotheses. How will you measure this variable, and how will you collect the data that will measure it?

What is contamination, and how would you try to minimize it?