Research Methods The Essential Knowledge Base 2nd Edition By William Trochim - Test Bank

,True / False

1. Research is a type of systematic investigation that is empirical in nature and is designed to contribute to public
knowledge.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: 1.1 The Research Enterprise
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

2. Evolutionary epistemology is a branch of philosophy that proposes that ideas evolve through the process of natural
selection.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: 1.1 The Research Enterprise
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

3. The purpose of peer review is for other researchers to exactly repeat the procedures of an experiment to see whether
they get the same results.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: 1.2 Conceptualizing Research
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

4. Relational studies are designed primarily to document what is going on or what exists.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: 1.3 The Language of Research
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

5. The theoretical nature of social sciences is related to developing, exploring, or testing the ideas that social researchers
have about how the world operates.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: 1.3 The Language of Research
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

6. A cross-sectional study is one that takes place at a single point in time.

, a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: 1.3 The Language of Research
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

7. A positive relationship between two variables may also be referred to as an inverse relationship.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: 1.3 The Language of Research
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

8. An independent variable is what the experimenter (or nature) manipulates.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: 1.3 The Language of Research
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

9. An hypothesis is a specific statement of prediction.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: 1.3 The Language of Research
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

10. The degree to which conclusions reached about relationships in an experiment are reasonable is referred to as
construct validity.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: 1.5 The Validity of Research
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

Multiple Choice

11. Research is empirical in nature, meaning that it ____.
a. is accessible to everyone
b. involves systematic observation
c. uses statistical procedures

, d. can be replicated
ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: 1.1 The Research Enterprise
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

12. The systematic effort to move research from initial discovery to practice is referred to as ____.
a. translational research
b. bench research
c. basic research
d. enterprise research
ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: 1.1 The Research Enterprise
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

13. The research-practice continuum starts with ____.
a. applied research
b. implementation research
c. basic research
d. policy research
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: 1.1 The Research Enterprise
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

14. Valerie’s state passed a law mandating a free public pre-kindergarten education for three- and four-year-old children,
although school enrollment is not mandatory until age five, with kindergarten. She is tracking the school-readiness and
reading-readiness scores of all children starting kindergarten to see how the children who are enrolled in the pre-K
program do in comparison to those of similar background who do not attend. Valerie is conducting ____.
a. applied research
b. implementation research
c. basic research
d. policy research
ANSWER: d
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: 1.1 The Research Enterprise
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Analyze

15. Dave’s team has developed an intervention for use with high school students who are facing the unexpected death of a
fellow student. This approach has been tested in a typical university community in the southern United States. Dave is
now testing the intervention in urban areas and also has plans to test it in a number of other areas. Dave is conducting
____.
a. applied research
b. implementation research
c. basic research
d. policy research