Answers to Quiz 2 (Make-Up)

1. Which of these are among the many advantages that underlie the growing popularity of telephone surveys?

A. Money
B. Time
C. Convenience
D. All of these choices


2. A___________ is an instrument specifically designed to elicit information that will be useful for analysis.

A. Questionnaire
B. Statement
C. Query
D. None of these choices


3. A ____________is a survey question intended for only some respondents, determined by their responses to some other question.

A. Snowball question
B. Contingency question
C. Purposive question
D. Regressive question


4. When a researcher gives the participant the opportunity to answer completely in his or her own words, he is asking a

A. Closed ended question
B. Broad question
C. Open ended question
D. Self descriptive question


5. When a researcher tests whether a questionnaire measures what it intends to measure he/she is essentially conducting

A. Reliability tests
B. Validity tests
C. Both reliability and validity tests
D. None of the above


6. Specifically stating how you will measure a concept for your research study is called

A. Conceptualization
B. Operationalization
C. Validation
D. Specification


7. Test-retest reliability means

A. The same questionnaire is split into half and tested
B. The same questionnaire is administered more than once over a period of time
C. Both 1 & 2.
D. None of the above


8. When a questionnaire is administered through computer and assisted by phone, this kind of survey is a

A. Telephone survey
B. Mass survey
C. Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI)
D. Computer survey


9. Content validity refers

A. How your measure or questionnaire relates to other similar theoretical constructs
B. To whether all dimensions of a concept are included
C. Both 1 & 2
D. None of the above


10. The question ‘how are your children and grandchildren?’ is an example of

A. Straight forward question
B. Double barreled question
C. Both 1 & 2
D. None of the above


11. Which among the following is a true criterion of objectives?

A. Objectives should be measurable
B. Objectives should be simple
C. Objectives should be realistic
D. all the above


12. A survey method where the researcher meets the respondent in person and conducts an interview is a

A. Face-to-face survey
B. E-survey
C. Private survey
D. All the above


13. The question ‘Did you murder your wife?’ is likely to result in

A. Social desirability bias
B. No bias
C. Ambiguity bias
D. None of the above


14. Which among the following is not true while constructing a questionnaire?

A. Sensitive questions should be asked in the beginning of the questionnaire
B. Questions should be simple
C. Closed ended questions should have all possible responses
D. All the above


15. Conceptualization is about

A. Defining an idea about something
B. Stating a hypothesis
C. Specifying an objective
D. None of the above.



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