MCQ Bank
The purpose of data editing is to ensure the ______________ of the data.
- A) completeness, consistency and readability
- B) difficulty, changeability and credibility
- C) uniqueness, regularity and changeability
- D) incompetency, specialty and discrepancy
Researchers convert raw count tables into _________ to see bi-variate relationship.
- A) Charts
- B) Univariate
- C) Percentages
- D) Graphs
A _____ is a measure in which the researcher captures the intensity, direction, level, or potency of a variable construct.
- A) Constant
- B) Scale
- C) Index
- D) Variable
Another situation an editor may face is the need to rearrange the answers to an open-ended response to a question. This is called ________________.
- A) Editing for Completeness
- B) Editing Questions Answered out of Order
- C) In-House Editing
- D) Editing for Consistency
_________ categories of a variable is a common data transformation.
- A) Combining
- B) Separating
- C) Dividing
- D) Segregating
A trivariate table has a bivariate table of the independent and dependent variable for each category of the_________.
- A) Suppressor variable pattern
- B) Control variable
- C) Partials
- D) Dependent
Q: ------- may have to reconstruct some data.
- A) reader
- B) researcher
- C) editor
- D) Writer
Consumer price index (CPI) is a measure of _________.
- A) Index
- B) Scale
- C) Indicator
- D) Inflation
The editor may have to _______ some data.
- A) Change
- B) Erase
- C) Reconstruct
- D) Hide
There are two basic rules for code construction. First, the coding categories should be_________. Second, the coding categories should also be________.
- A) Internal, external
- B) Intensive, extensive
- C) Blended, extended
- D) Exhaustive, mutually exclusive
The in-house editor’s task is to ensure that inconsistent or contradictory responses are _________.
- A) Adjusted
- B) Calculated
- C) Increased
- D) Changed
The _________ contingency table is widely used. These tables are based on cross-tabulation.
- A) Trivariate
- B) Bivariate
- C) Univariate
- D) Percentage
In experiments, pretests and posttests measure ______ variable.
- A) Y
- B) Z
- C) A
- D) X
When early reviewing of the data is not possible, ________ is done.
- A) Editing for Completeness
- B) Editing for Consistency
- C) In-House Editing
- D) Coding
The purpose of experimental research is to allow the researcher to control the research situation so that causal relationships among _____ may be evaluated.
- A) Experiments
- B) Variables
- C) Partials
- D) Dependents
The researchers have created numerous _______ and ________ to measure social phenomenon.
- A) Variables, constants
- B) Scales, indexes
- C) Editing, coding
- D) Data analysis, data transformation
A/An __________ is a measure in which a researcher adds or combines several distinct indicators of a construct into a single score.
- A) Variable
- B) Scale
- C) Indicator
- D) Index
Response of the ______ are measured to the experimental treatments.
- A) Dependent variables
- B) Posttest
- C) Pretest
- D) Test units
A famous software used for data presentation known as SPSS stands for………………….
- A) Statistical Package for the Statistical Sciences
- B) Statistical Program for the Social Sciences
- C) Sociological Package for the Statistical Sciences
- D) Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
____________ refers to a body of facts that are in a format suitable for decision making, whereas _______ are simply recorded measures of certain phenomenon.
- A) Information, data
- B) Data, information
- C) Project, information
- D) Project, data