EDR 610 Quiz 5 - Question and Answers

EDR 610 Quiz 5 - Question and Answers 1. Which of the following is a characteristic of non-experimental designs? 2. Which of the following non-experimental designs comes closest to examining causal relationships? 3. The school psychologist was asked by one teacher to develop a program to eliminate the disruptive behaviors of one of her students. The psychologist needed more information about how often the behavior occurred, where it occurred, and what provoked the behavior. What type of study will the psychologist conduct to obtain this information? 4. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE of relationship studies? 5. Prediction studies are characterized by 6. When interpreting the results of correlational research, you may find that the low correlation reported by the researcher could be attributed to 7. In a study of high school drop-outs, it was found that students who came from homes where parents had not completed high school were more likely to drop out of school than similar students whose parents had completed high school. This is an example of 8. A researcher studied the physical and academic development of premature babies. After the first observation at birth, he studied them every five years until age twenty. This is an example of a (n) 9. In which study are the same individuals studied over time? 10. If a researcher is quite concerned about the response rate in his study, he could 11. A student has decided to use a web-based survey to collect data for his study. Which of the following would you recommend he do? 12. There are many correlational studies suggesting that student engagement (i.e., time-on-task) is highly correlated to student achievement. Which of the following suggestions is MOST reasonable given the limitations of correlational designs? 13. A co