Exam 6: Qualitative and Quantitative Measurement

Professor Howie Handlebar created a measure of how students feel about the effectiveness of university teaching.He identified many subjective dimensions and labelled each with polar extremes.The extremes referred to general evaluative adverbs and adjectives.Subjects marked answers on one of nine spaces between the two extremes.Howie used

Use the letters marking parts of the diagram of the measurement process to identify the following parts: Conceptual definition of the dependent variable.

Which of the following is NOT measured at a higher level than the nominal level?

Mildred Magnificent got on the scale at 7:00 a.m.and weighed 295 pounds.At 7:02 a.m.she again got on the scale and weighed 200 pounds.At 7:04 a.m.she weighed 499 pounds.The measurement of Mildred's weight has problems with

Undergraduate student Millie Magnificent developed a way to measure sexist attitudes.It worked such that a person with a score of zero truly had a neutral attitude.Also,a person who had a score of 50 had exactly double the score of someone with a score of 25.She created a(n)

Which of the following statements about the role of a conceptual definition in variable measurement is true?

Patrick Paddywagon,owner of the Paddywagon Automobile Supermarket,wanted to find out the kinds of cars he should push to graduating college students.He asked 100 university seniors to rate 10 aspects of 11 models his dealership sold: style,fuel economy,engineering,safety,performance,prestige,comfort,price,selection or options,and interior size.Each car was rated on the 10 aspects from 0 (poor)to 5 (excellent).Each student also rated the importance of each aspect (1 = unimportant,2 = moderate importance,3 = very important).Then each aspect rating was weighed (multiplied)by its importance rating.Next,everything was added together for a score.Each car received a score of 0 to 150.What measurement technique did Patrick use in his study?

Dr.Jim Jennings studies the relationship between age and levels of activity.Jim measures levels of activity by documenting the number of steps his subjects take each day.What has Jim done by creating this measure of activity levels?

Which sort of hypothesis are researchers interested in testing at the level of operational definitions?

Define the following terms -reliability

What are the main distinctions between qualitative and quantitative approaches to measurement?

Which sequence illustrates the progression of quantitative measurement steps?

Define the following terms -dependability

Define the following terms -interval-level measurement

Define the following terms -continuous variables

Define the following terms -authenticity

Explain the difference between the logic of a scale and an index.

Define the following terms -empirical hypothesis

What level of measurement is being used in the statement,"A fox terrier is smaller than a Russian wolfhound,but bigger than a Chihuahua."

Define the following terms -statistical validity