Exam 4: Section 1: Concepts, Operationalization, and Measurement

A researcher is developing a scale to reflect satisfaction with police services. Which activity will yield an indication of the new scale's construct validity?

NIBRS reports each crime incident rather than the total number of certain crimes.

When a professor assigns grades, the professor is engaging in ____.

Which report is a summary-based measure of crime?

Since its inception, the ____ has served as a measure to monitor the volume of crime, including crimes not reported to police.

Variables whose attributes have only the characteristics of exhaustiveness and mutual exclusiveness are _______________ level measures.

Validity that is related to the logical relationships between variables is known as ____ validity.

An empirical measure that adequately reflects the meaning of the concept under consideration is said to have ____.

The UCR accounts for all types of crime, even those crimes that are not observed.

_______________ is a matter of whether a particular measurement technique, applied repeatedly to the same object, will yield the same result each time.

What might be a useful indicator of the dimension "victim harm"?

Mental images that we represent with words or symbols are known as _______________.

To be scientifically useful, the attributes of every variable should be exhaustive as well as mutually exclusive.

A researcher who wants to know a measure is consistent or stable is interested in ____.

A researcher asks participants to indicate how frequently they have used various illicit drugs using the following scale: 1 = never used; 2 = used 1 - 5 times; 3 = used 6 - 10 times; 4 = used more than ten times. This scale is best described as ____ level.

In the measurement of crime, single incident cannot include multiple offenses, but may have one offense and multiple offenders.

The test-retest method is used to examine ____.

The _______________ is an effort to convert the UCR to a more comprehensive crime report.

Define and discuss face, content, criterion-related, and construct validity.

Logical sets of attributes are known as ____.