TAM 2600 EXAM 1
REVIEW QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
, TAM 2600 EXAM 1 REVIEW QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
A coach for a soccer team wants the players to evaluate the quality of each player's kicks
toward the goal. Instead of doing the evaluations in real-time after the player has already kicked,
she videotapes them all separately. The coach plays the video and has the players evaluate the
process of the kick as it's happening and then pauses the video before the ball reaches the goal
and before the players know whether the kick was successful or not.
The coach is trying to prevent which bias? - Answer-Hindsight bias
A football coach has the same trainer watch tapes of the players. The trainer is supposed to
score the players on the level of cognitive impairment after concussions. Even when watching
the same tapes, the trainer's scores of the player differ from week to week. This situation best
represents a problem with: - Answer-reliability
A researcher is studying students in two math classrooms using different teaching strategies.
Two math teachers having been teaching their students about addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division for the past year. Ms. Agarwal gives students their math worksheets
organized by the type of math skills students need to practice (1 page on addition, 1 page on
subtraction, etc.). On the other hand, Mx. Banerjee organizes math worksheets so that the
different skills are mixed across the entire worksheet. At the end of the school year, all students
are given an unannounced test. - Answer-interleaving
A researcher is studying students in two math classrooms using different teaching strategies.
Two math teachers having been teaching their students about addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division for the past year. Ms. Agarwal gives students their math worksheets
organized by the type of math skills students need to practice (1 page on addition, 1 page on
subtraction, etc.). On the other hand, Mx. Banerjee organizes math worksheets so that the
different skills are mixed across the entire worksheet. At the end of the school year, all students
are given an unannounced test. - Answer-Ms. Banerjree
A researcher read a research report that caregivers spend on average 13 days per month
running errands for the person and 6 days per month helping the person eat, dress, bathe, or do
other personal care. Because the report did not show the survey questions, the researcher was
unsure how well the questions measured these variables.
This researcher is wondering about which type of validity? - Answer-construct validity
A study found a correlation between extroversion and face recognition skills. The author then
proposes that it may be that being extroverted leads to extremely good facial recognition ability,
or perhaps that the extremely good facial recognition ability leads to being extroverted.
Which research methods concept does this scenario best refer to? - Answer-Directionality
problem
A team of researchers attempted to measure whether people can distinguish between real or
fake news in a sample of students. Using a lottery system, the researchers sampled 7,804
students from across the U.S. in colleges. They found that 82% of students couldn't distinguish
between an ad labeled "sponsored content" and a real news story on a website.
REVIEW QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
, TAM 2600 EXAM 1 REVIEW QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
A coach for a soccer team wants the players to evaluate the quality of each player's kicks
toward the goal. Instead of doing the evaluations in real-time after the player has already kicked,
she videotapes them all separately. The coach plays the video and has the players evaluate the
process of the kick as it's happening and then pauses the video before the ball reaches the goal
and before the players know whether the kick was successful or not.
The coach is trying to prevent which bias? - Answer-Hindsight bias
A football coach has the same trainer watch tapes of the players. The trainer is supposed to
score the players on the level of cognitive impairment after concussions. Even when watching
the same tapes, the trainer's scores of the player differ from week to week. This situation best
represents a problem with: - Answer-reliability
A researcher is studying students in two math classrooms using different teaching strategies.
Two math teachers having been teaching their students about addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division for the past year. Ms. Agarwal gives students their math worksheets
organized by the type of math skills students need to practice (1 page on addition, 1 page on
subtraction, etc.). On the other hand, Mx. Banerjee organizes math worksheets so that the
different skills are mixed across the entire worksheet. At the end of the school year, all students
are given an unannounced test. - Answer-interleaving
A researcher is studying students in two math classrooms using different teaching strategies.
Two math teachers having been teaching their students about addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division for the past year. Ms. Agarwal gives students their math worksheets
organized by the type of math skills students need to practice (1 page on addition, 1 page on
subtraction, etc.). On the other hand, Mx. Banerjee organizes math worksheets so that the
different skills are mixed across the entire worksheet. At the end of the school year, all students
are given an unannounced test. - Answer-Ms. Banerjree
A researcher read a research report that caregivers spend on average 13 days per month
running errands for the person and 6 days per month helping the person eat, dress, bathe, or do
other personal care. Because the report did not show the survey questions, the researcher was
unsure how well the questions measured these variables.
This researcher is wondering about which type of validity? - Answer-construct validity
A study found a correlation between extroversion and face recognition skills. The author then
proposes that it may be that being extroverted leads to extremely good facial recognition ability,
or perhaps that the extremely good facial recognition ability leads to being extroverted.
Which research methods concept does this scenario best refer to? - Answer-Directionality
problem
A team of researchers attempted to measure whether people can distinguish between real or
fake news in a sample of students. Using a lottery system, the researchers sampled 7,804
students from across the U.S. in colleges. They found that 82% of students couldn't distinguish
between an ad labeled "sponsored content" and a real news story on a website.
