Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Methods - Quiz 2 Outline

Outline

- What is the purpose of a literature review?

- Conceptualization and Measurement

- What is meant by the term conceptualization?

- What is meant by the term operationalization?

- What are indexes and scales? What are the main reasons why indexes and scales are frequently used?

- What is the key difference between a scale and an index?

- What does a Bogardus Social Distance Scale look like?

- What does a Likert scale look like?

- What is meant by the term triangulation?

- What are the four levels of measurement? What are the differences between 1) Nominal

Measures; 2) Ordinal Measures; 3) Interval Measures; and 4) Ratio Measures

- What is the difference between reliability and validity?

- What is meant by “face validity”?

- What is meant by “content validity”?

- What is meant by criterion validity?

- What is meant by test-retest reliability?

Causation and Experimental Design

- What is meant by the term causality?

- What are the criteria needed to establish causality? What is meant by the terms: association, time order, and nonspuriousness?

- What are the required features of a “true experiment”?

- What is the significance of a:

a) Post-Test

b) Pre-Test

- What is the difference between “internal invalidity” and “external invalidity”?

- What is a double blind experiment and what is its purpose?

- What is a Solomon Four Group Design and what is its purpose?

Readings Responsible For:

Chambliss and Schutt: Chapter 3, Chapter 5 (pps 106-128), Chapter 10 (pages 260-266)

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