Deck 4: Reviewing the Literature

Question 1

Which of the following is NOT one of the criteria that materials in ERIC are evaluated on?

A) relevance to education
B) quality
C) editorial/peer review criteria
D) length

Answer 1

D

Question 2

When searching a database such as ERIC or PsycINFO, a good place to start is

A) determining key words.
B) searching the thesaurus.
C) reading abstracts.
D) using interlibrary loan.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following statements is not true of World Cat?

A) It can be an excellent tool for interlibrary loan information.
B) It provides abstracts of articles and books.
C) It does not use a controlled vocabulary.
D) Both b and C

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following is not a purpose of the search for related literature?

A) Avoiding the unintentional replication of previous projects
B) Defining the boundaries of one's field
C) Determining whether the project would make a meaningful contribution to the field
D) Displaying an exhaustive knowledge of one's field
E) Learning which research procedures have been useful to other researchers

Question 5

_____ enables one to locate manuscripts and archival materials.

A) World Cat
B) Social Science Citation Index
C) ERIC

Question 6

An advantage of searching the Encyclopedia of Ed Stats online rather than searching the paper Digest of Education Statistics is that the online publication

A) includes newer statistics sooner.
B) includes a larger number of different statistics and sources.
C) includes more ways to search for statistics.
D) All of these answers.

Question 7

Where is a good place to find high quality online journals?

A) Through the Communication of Research SIG
B) Through ERIC
C) Through PsycINFO
D) Through Google

Question 8

What percentage of the global population has internet access?

A) 10
B) 15
C) 80
D) 85

Question 9

Where could one go to begin locating articles on the education of the mentally retarded written before 1966?

A) Dissertation Abstracts
B) Education Abstracts
C) Mental Measurements Yearbook
D) Review of Educational Research

Question 10

_____ enables one to locate later works that refer to previous studies of interest.

A) World Cat
B) Social Science Citation Index
C) ERIC

Question 11

If one were looking for the most current statistics on student composition and expenditures of states on schools, one would first look in

A) The Digest of Education Statistics.
B) Online Encyclopedia of Ed Stats.
C) http://nces.ed.gov.
D) All of these answers.

Question 12

Where could one locate critical reviews of group intelligence tests?

A) Dissertation Abstracts
B) Education Abstracts
C) Mental Measurements Yearbook
D) Review of Educational Research

Question 13

Where could one locate dissertations related to one's topic?

A) Dissertation Abstracts
B) Education Abstracts
C) Mental Measurements Yearbook
D) Review of Educational Research

Question 14

To find key words to use as search descriptors, you may want to use

A) Dictionary of Education.
B) Encyclopedia of Educational Research.
C) ERIC Thesaurus.
D) World Cat.

Question 15

Which could be used to locate relevant journal articles?

A) Encyclopedia of Educational Research
B) Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography
C) Test Critiques
D) Review of Educational Research

Question 16

A source for annotated bibliographies on selected topics is

A) World Cat.
B) Social Science Citation Index.
C) ERIC.

Question 17

If the review of related research uncovers a very similar study, the researcher may want to

A) investigate another aspect of the study.
B) explore a different area of study.
C) replicate the study to determine its accuracy.
D) Any of the above.

Question 18

The best place to look for research articles on a particular topic is

A) World Cat.
B) Social Science Citation Index.
C) ERIC.

Question 19

Where could one locate overviews of a particular area of research?

A) Dissertation Abstracts
B) Education Abstracts
C) Mental Measurements Yearbook
D) Review of Educational Research

Question 20

A major difference between online search engines and periodical indexes, such as ERIC is

A) a list of "hits" appears for a search.
B) a "controlled vocabulary" is used.
C) subject descriptors are searched.
D) Both b and C

Question 21

Which of the following is not an important consideration in evaluating the quality of information on the World Wide Web?

A) currency
B) authority of the author or sponsor
C) accuracy
D) effective use of graphics on the site

Question 22

_____ are useful to assist in reading unfamiliar research.

A) Encyclopedias
B) Handbooks
C) Dictionaries
D) Both a and

Question 23

Where would one find quarterly reviews of research in various subject areas?

A) Encyclopedia of Educational Research
B) Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography
C) Test Critiques
D) Review of Educational Research

Question 24

Education Abstracts is useful primarily for locating

A) books.
B) dissertations.
C) government documents.
D) journal articles.
E) tests.

Question 25

_____ enables one to locate later works that refer to a previous study.

A) PsycInfo
B) ERIC database
C) Social Sciences Citation Index
D) Tests in Print
E) Google Scholar

Question 26

_____ typically features information on state of the art or current hot topics.

A) Encyclopedias
B) Handbooks
C) Dictionaries
D) Both a and

Question 27

Indexes and abstract chapters in professional books, and the books themselves.

A) PsycInfo
B) ERIC database
C) Social Sciences Citation Index
D) Tests in Print
E) Google Scholar

Question 28

Established tests and measurements are indexed in

A) PsycInfo.
B) ERIC database.
C) Social Sciences Citation Index.
D) Tests in Print.
E) Google Scholar.

Question 29

Where would one seek information concerning measures of science achievement?

A) Encyclopedia of Educational Research
B) Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography
C) Test Critiques
D) Review of Educational Research

Question 30

A survey of the literature and research concerning the question one wants to investigate should be done

A) before conducting the study.
B) while conducting the study.
C) after conducting the study
D) Any of these answers.

Question 31

An annotation is a

A) brief description of an article.
B) critical review of a published test.
C) deliberately limited thesaurus used for classifying studies.
D) descriptive word or phrase used for retrieving information.
E) detailed abstract of a research study.

Question 32

The best source of non-journal material is

A) PsycInfo.
B) ERIC database.
C) Social Sciences Citation Index.
D) Tests in Print.
E) Google Scholar.

Question 33

Conference reports and peer-reviewed materials are searchable online in

A) PsycInfo.
B) ERIC database.
C) Social Sciences Citation Index.
D) Tests in Print.
E) Google Scholar.

Question 34

_____ are published less frequently than other book-length reference sources.

A) Encyclopedias
B) Handbooks
C) Dictionaries
D) Both a and

Question 35

To find a summary of research over a 10-year period concerning the attention span of elementary school children, you would look in

A) Dictionary of Education.
B) Education Abstracts.
C) Encyclopedia of Educational Research.
D) Journal of Educational Research.
E) Review of Educational Research.

Question 36

Where would you find a good overview on a variety of educational topics?

A) Encyclopedia of Educational Research
B) Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography
C) Test Critiques
D) Review of Educational Research

Question 37

_____ are designed to give very thorough bibliographies on broad topics.

A) Encyclopedias
B) handbooks
C) Dictionaries
D) Both a and

Question 38

If researchers find a useful article written in 1975 and want to see which other researchers have made reference to this work in subsequent years, they should consult

A) Education Abstracts.
B) Psychological Abstracts.
C) Social Science Citation Index or Web of Knowledge.
D) Social Science Index

Question 39

Your friend saves time on the literature review process by:
You would recommend all of the above except

A) 1.
B) 2.
C) 3.
D) 4.
E) All are recommended.

Question 40

The best source for finding shifts in thought in a field when subsequent issues are examined is

A) encyclopedias.
B) handbooks.
C) dictionaries.
D) Both a and

Question 41

To locate a test, whose website would be a good place to search?

A) Buros Institute
B) Maddox's Tests
C) Keyser & Sweetlands
D) Compton's guide

Question 42

To find a doctoral dissertation, which is most appropriate to search?

A) ERIC
B) Dissertation Abstracts International
C) PsycINFO
D) PsycArticles

Question 43

Inconsistencies found in the literature review might be due to the use of different

A) analysis procedures.
B) methodologies.
C) problem-solving approaches.
D) operational definitions of variables.
E) All of these answers.

Question 44

An annotation is

A) a full discussion of the results of a study.
B) a list of authors and their work up-to-date.
C) a list of key terms in an article.
D) a short summary of an article.

Question 45

To use ERIC to search a particular topic, you need to know

A) a specific article title associated with the topic.
B) an author's name associated with the topic.
C) keywords associated with the topic.
D) all of the above.

Question 46

To find all materials indexed by a given resource that deals with deaf education outside of the United States, you would use

A) deaf education and United States.
B) deaf education or United States.
C) deaf education, not United States.
D) None of these answers.

Question 47

To find what journal articles have referenced a particular author, you would use

A) ERIC.
B) Encyclopedia of Educational Research.
C) Sociological Abstracts.
D) PsycInfo.
E) Social Sciences Citation Index.

Question 48

A researcher might best search the larger World Wide Web rather than an indexing and abstracting database when he/she is looking for

A) the most current research.
B) referenced articles.
C) proceedings or abstracts of papers presented at recent conferences.
D) the names of researchers, conferences, or of professional organizations with whom she might network to get her paper critiqued or published.
E)Both c and d.

Question 49

To decide when to stop collecting material in a literature review, one should

A) continue until no more material can be found.
B) determine if there is an appropriate proportion of information from both journal and book sources.
C) examine the foundation laid by the review for one's question.
D) observe the number of sources retrieved.

Question 50

When executing a keyword search in an online database, you want articles dealing with alcohol-related deaths without articles dealing with traffic accidents.You would connect keywords representing alcohol-related deaths and traffic accidents with

A) and.
B) or.
C) not.

Question 51

When doing the literature review, it is best to

A) start with the earliest work to understand the foundation of the hypothesis.
B) start with the latest work to incorporate modifications of theory and method.
C) start with a representative article and use its references to branch further.

Question 52

Disadvantages of searching the entire World Wide Web for research purposes include

A) Web sites disappearing; addresses or servers changing.
B) It is difficult to find the full text of any given piece of research.
C) Search engines do not use a controlled vocabulary to search the web for information.
D) All of these answers.

Question 53

Mental Measurements Yearbook would be useful to

A) compare purposes of several reading comprehension tests.
B) find the administration price for a standardized test.
C) select a test for motor functions.
D) All of these answers.
E) None of these answers.

Question 54

To find all materials indexed by a given resource that deals with high school students who are involved with drugs, you would execute the following Boolean search

A) high school students and drug use.
B) high school students or drug use.
C) high school students, not drug use.
D) None of these answers.

Question 55

Which of the following searchable databases ensures that you will find full text articles?

A) PsycArticles
B) PsycINFO
C) ERIC
D) Infotrac

Question 56

In writing the related literature section, it is a good policy to

A) discuss the articles in chronological order.
B) discuss the studies by topic.
C) give complete details (number of subjects, specific instructions to subjects, etc.) for every article.
D) include every article you have located.

Question 57

While executing a keyword search in an online database, you want to locate articles relating adolescent deviance to prenatal experience and birth trauma.You would use

A) prenatal experience and birth trauma and adolescent deviance.
B) prenatal experience and birth trauma or adolescent deviance.
C) prenatal experience or birth trauma and adolescent deviance.
D) prenatal experience or birth trauma or adolescent deviance.

Question 58

To find all materials indexed by a given resource that deal either with handicapped persons, or motor performance, you would execute the following Boolean search

A) handicapped and motor performance.
B) handicapped or motor performance.
C) handicapped, not motor performance.
D) None of these answers.

Question 59

If an author is affiliated with a particular organization, you could search for other material from that organization in which volume of the Social Science Citation Index?

A) Citation Index
B) Corporate Address Index
C) Permuterm Subject Index
D) Source Index
E) None of these answers.

Question 60

What part of the Social Science Citation Index enables one to locate articles with specific pairs of words in the title?

A) Citation Index
B) Corporate Address Index
C) Listing Index
D) Permuterm Subject Index
E) Source Index

Question 61

In which volume of the Social Science Citation Index would one search for significant words in titles?

A) Citation Index
B) Corporate Address Index
C) Permuterm Subject Index
D) Source Index
E) None of these answers.