Practice Educational Research

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Educational Research Quiz

Test your knowledge on educational research concepts with our engaging quiz! This quiz is designed to help you understand various sampling strategies, hypotheses, and the significance of representativeness in research. Whether you're a student or an educator, this quiz will challenge your understanding and solidify your learning.

What you will learn:

  • Sampling Methods
  • Independent and Dependent Variables
  • Research Justifications
  • Effective Survey Design
12 Questions3 MinutesCreated by ExploringKnowledge42
Principal Mesutoglu has decided to consider changes to her school policy because some parents had concerns about the current policy. She leaves a stack of surveys at her office desk and as parents come to pick up their children, she asks them to take the time to complete the survey. Which of the following does this strategy illustrate?
Simple random
Stratified ranom
Convenience
Purposive
You are studying children with asthma. The clinic where you are doing your study has 300 children diagnosed with asthma. Your inclusion criteria are children who can speak English, and are older than 10 years of age. 120 children meet the criteria and you have them in your sample. What is the sampling strategy?
Simple random
Stratified ranom
Convenience
Purposive
Principal Mesutoglu surveys everyone in her population. This would be called Census
True
False
You go to the mall next weekend to study how people spend their money. You ask all by-passers to participate.
Simple random
Stratified random
Convenience
Purposive
You wish to examine the effects of socio-economic status on diet. You can randomly sample all of the people that work or are patients at a local hospital for the study. You are concerned about the disproportionate number in your sample with higher socio-economic status, while not representing the lower socio-economic groups as proportionately. How would you sample to control for this problem?
Simple random
Stratified random
Convenience
Purposive
You are given a list of all graduating seniors at the university. You decide to survey the 120 names that you choose from a bag and ask what types of activities they participated in while they were at the university. This is an example of _________ sampling.
Simple random
Stratified random
Convenience
Pusposive
In a career readiness research project, 100 students were randomly selected from the psychology program, 150 students were randomly selected from the communications program, and 120 students were randomly selected from cyber security program. This type of sampling is called:
Simple random
Stratified random
Convenience
Purposive
The best sample is one that is...
 Selected at random
Convenient
Representative of the population
"Students taught biology by programmed instruction will achieve at a higher grade level than those taught biology by the traditional method." The independent variable in this hypothesis is:
Students
Level of achievement
Programmed instruction
Method of instruction
Students taught biology by programmed instruction will achieve at a higher grade level than those taught biology by the traditional method." The dependent variable in this hypothesis is:
Students
Level of achievement
Programmed instruction
Programmed instruction
A purposive sample is used when...
The individuals to be chosen are believed to have the information desired
The researcher has a clear purpose for the study
The population cannot be specified
Justification for a study is generally based on the study's contribution:
to general knowledge
To professional practice
To theory
All of the above
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