CP 6691 Common Assessment 3
Quiz
Program Evaluation Part A
1. Dr. Jones teaches a research methodology course. The course includes a midterm examination. A midterm examination is an example of which of the following types of evaluations?
a) summative evaluation
b) formative evaluation
c) both a and b
d) neither a or b
2 Jenny runs a program that teaches self-esteem to high school students. Jenny’s program is federally funded. Jenny hires a consultant to evaluate the results of her effort at the end of the program. This is an example of which of the following types of evaluation?
a) summative evaluation
b) formative evaluation
c) both a and b
d) neither a or b
3. A counselor educator is running an experiment to test a new form of counseling. Unbeknownst to the experimenter one of the clients in the study is secretly seeing a gestalt therapist. This experiment
a) is parsimonious.
b) is an example of Occam’s Razor.
c) is confounded/flawed
d) is valid and will most likely help the field of counseling.
4. Which of the following is/are acceptable data collection procedures in program evaluation?
a) Survey
b) focus groups
c) performance and portfolio assessment
d) all of the above
5. Which of the following is not a typical reason to conduct program evaluation?
a) to determine if program objectives have been met.
b) to determine if there are any unintended consequences of the program.
c) to determine if the program results are generalizable to a larger population
d) to determine if program results justify continued funding
Research – Part B
6. An experiment is said to be confounded when
a) undesirable variables are not kept out of the experiment
b) undesirable variables are kept out of the experiment
c) basic research is used in place of applied research
d) the sample is random
7. Type I and Type II errors are called ______and ______respectively.
a) beta; alpha
b) .01; .05
c) a and b
d) alpha; beta
8. A counselor believes that clients who receive assertiveness training will ask more questions in counseling classes. An experimental group receives assertiveness training while a control group does not. In order to test for significant differences between the groups the counselor should utilize
a) the student’s t test
b) a correlation coefficient.
c) a survey.
d) an analysis of variance or ANOVA
9. When a researcher uses correlation, then there is no direct manipulation of the IV. A researcher might ask, for example, how IQ correlates with the incidence of panic disorder. Again, nothing is manipulated; just measured. In cases such as this a correlation coefficient will reveal
a) the relationship between IQ and panic disorder
b) the probability that a significant difference exists.
c) an F test.
d) percentile rank.
10. The range is a measure of variance and usually is calculated by determining the difference between the highest and the lowest score. Thus, on a test where the top score was a 93 and the lowest score was 33 out of 100, the range would be
a) 61.
b) 77.
c) 59.
d) more information is necessary
11. The standard deviation is the square root of the variance. A z-score of +1 would be the same as
a) one standard deviation above the mean.
b) one standard deviation below the mean.
c) the same as a so-called T-score.
d) the median score if the population is normal.
12. There are four basic measurement scales: the nominal, the ordinal, the interval, and the ratio. The nominal scale is strictly a qualitative scale. It is the simplest type of scale. It is used to distinguish logically separated groups. Which of the following illustrates the function of the nominal scale?
a) a horse categorized as a second place winner in a show.
b) a DSM or ICD diagnostic category.
c) an IQ score of 111.
d) the weight of an Olympic barbell set.
e)
13. A researcher notes that a group of clients who are not receiving counseling, but are observed in a research study, are improving. Her hypothesis is that the attention she has given them has been curative. The best explanation of their improvement would be
a) the Hawthorne effect.
b) the Halo effect.
c) the Rosenthal effect.
d) a Type II error in the research.
14. If an ANOVA yields a significant F value, you could rely on ______to test significant differences between group means.
a) one-and two-tailed t tests.
b) percentile rank.
c) Duncan’s multiple-range, Tukey’s or Scheffe’s test.
d) summative or formative evaluation.
15. In a parametric test the assumption is that the scores are normally distributed. In nonparametric testing the curve is not a normal distribution. Which of these tests are nonparametric statistical measures?
a) Mann-Whitney U-test, often just called the U-test.
b) Wilcoxon signed-rank test for matched pairs.
c) Soloman and the Kruskal-Wallis H-test.
d) All of the above are nonparametric measures.