NCE: Research Methods and Program Evaluation Solved Test |Question and Answer| 100% Correct

NCE: Research Methods and Program Evaluation Solved Test |Question and Answer| 100% Correct experimental research *Ans* the process of gathering data in order to make evaluative comparisons regarding different situations quasi-experiment *Ans* the researcher uses pre-existing groups, so the independent variable cannot be controlled or when the groups are not picked at random; cannot assign causality ex post facto research *Ans* quasi-experiment; the IV was administered before the research began; researcher did not have control over the independent variable because the research occurred in the past threats to internal validity *Ans* maturation, mortality, instruments, statistical regression maturation *Ans* psychological and physical changes including fatigue due to the time involved attrition/experimental mortality *Ans* subjects withdrawing from a study statistical regression to the mean *Ans* the notion that extremely high and low scores woul dmove toward the mean if the measure is used again internal validity *Ans* whether the DVs were truly influenced by the experimental IVs or whether other factors had an impact external validity *Ans* whether the experimental research results can be generalized to larger population (other people, settings, or conditions) factor analysis *Ans* statistical procedures that use the important or underlying factors in an attempt to summarize a lot of variables (e.g., 3 most important variables/factors that make an effective helper) parsimony *Ans* interpreting the results in the simplest way; aka Occam's Razor confound *Ans* undesired variable which is not controlled by the researcher is introduced in the experiment; all correlational research is said to be confounded APA Journal of Counseling *Ans* publishes more counseling research articles than any other periodical in the counseling field variable *Ans* a behavior or circumstance that can exist on at least 2 levels or conditions; a factors that varies or is capable of chang