Deck 8: Measurement and Data Analysis

Question 1

The process of specifying the meaning of the terms in the evaluation is known as:

A) Definition
B) Conceptualization
C) Goal
D) Indicator

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following signals the process or absence of the concept being studied?

A) Definition
B) Conceptualization
C) Goal
D) Indicator

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following uses social indicators to help outline the need to be addressed?

A) Process
B) Impact
C) Needs
D) Theory-driven

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following involve indicators of implementation?

A) Process
B) Impact
C) Needs
D) Theory-driven

Question 5

Which of the following involve indicators of success or failure of the program?

A) Process
B) Impact
C) Needs
D) Theory-driven

Question 6

Which measurement level allows an evaluator to name the characteristics or attributes but also provide some rank order?

A) Ordinal
B) Ratio
C) Interval
D) Nominal

Question 7

Which measurement level has all of the attributes of the ordinal level and also allows the distance between any two numbers on the scale to be a known size?

A) Ordinal
B) Ratio
C) Interval
D) Nominal

Question 8

Which measurement level has all of the attributes of the interval level, but it also has a true zero point?

A) Ordinal
B) Ratio
C) Interval
D) Nominal

Question 9

Which of the following is the determination of whether the items are behaving in the manner that they should be behaving?

A) Validity
B) Theory
C) Measurement
D) Reliability

Question 10

Which of the following is at risk if the evaluator's measure is capturing the entire content of domain or dimensions of a concept?

A) Objective validity
B) Construct validity
C) Content validity
D) Face validity

Question 11

Which of the following is concerned with whether measures are consistent with common agreements or images of a concept?

A) Objective validity
B) Construct validity
C) Content validity
D) Face validity

Question 12

Which of the following is concerned with the relationships among the variables?

A) Objective validity
B) Construct validity
C) Content validity
D) Face validity

Question 13

Which of the following is able to compare differences between two groups?

A) Regression
B) T-test
C) Correlation
D) Chi-square

Question 14

Which statistical tool provides an approach for testing the significance between categorical levels of data?

A) Regression
B) T-test
C) Correlation
D) Chi-square

Question 15

Which of the following measures the degree to which two or more variables are associated?

A) Regression
B) T-test
C) Correlation
D) Chi-square

Question 16

Which of the following provides the evaluator with an opportunity to predict the outcome of a relationship with an interval-level dependent variable and one or more independent variables?

A) Regression
B) T-test
C) Correlation
D) Chi-square

Question 17

In the ________________, the frequencies or means are plotted on the vertical axis and the values for the attributes are placed on the horizontal axis.

A) Regression model
B) Bar Chart
C) Pie Chart
D) Line Graph

Question 18

It is important to understand that a concept is an abstraction from reality that cannot be seen, but is present.

Question 19

When using ordinal level data, the numbers classify the characteristics of the operational definition.

Question 20

When an evaluator is using nominal level data it allows the evaluator to be able to group data in a way that indicates if some data contain more or less information.

Question 21

The zero point allows the evaluator to calculate and state the ratio between any two values on a scale.

Question 22

Normally distributed data can never be graphically presented as a bell curve.

Question 23

Statistics are not "magical," or come with all of the answers, but statistics are tools that provide information to aid decision making.

Question 24

The mode is the average score in the distribution.

Question 25

The mean is the number of data that occurs most frequently.

Question 26

The median is the midpoint or middle of the data distribution.

Question 27

The variance is the mean of the sum of all squared deviations from the mean of any distributed scores.

Question 28

The standard deviation is the same value for all data.

Question 29

A pie chart provides a picture of a 360-degree circle that represents the percentages of the data.

Question 30

A line graph is used to represent nominal-level and ordinal level data.

Question 31

A bar chart describes numerical data with a dot where each attribute represents the frequency or mean.

Question 32

Hypothesis testing is the crucial element of inferential statistics.