What is the most basic method of illustrating data?
A.Frequency distribution
B.Pie chart
C.Line graph
D.Polygon
A good rule of thumb when creating an illustration is:
A.Make sure your graph communicates only one idea.
B.Don't label items.
C.Use a lot of text.
D.Do not worry about centering titles and axis labels.
A distribution of scores in which almost the entire class scored very low, but a few students scored fairly high, would be:
A.Positively skewed
B.Negatively skewed
C.No skew
D.Normally distributed
If the mean of a set of scores is greater than the median, what can be said about the distribution?
A.Negatively skewed
B.Positively skewed
C.Leptokurtic
D.Platykurtic
What is the horizontal axis on a graph called?
A.x-axis
B.y-axis
C.z-axis
D.frequency axis
What is the vertical axis on a graph called?
A.x-axis
B.y-axis
C.z-axis
D.nominal axis
When interested in examining how one variable changes in relation to another, which of the following descriptive statistics would you want to use?
A.Mean
B.Variance
C.Correlation
D.Standard Deviation
If variables change in the same direction, what type of correlation is this called?
A.Positive correlation
B.Negative correlation
C.Positive causation
D.Negative causation
If variables change in the opposite direction, what type of correlation is this called?
A.Positive correlation
B.Negative correlation
C.Positive causation
D.Negative causation
What would you use to represent a correlation visually?
A.Histogram
B.Polygon
C.Line graph
D.Scatterplot
Which of the following is the strongest correlation?
A..21
B..87
C..44
D.-.92
Which of the following is the weakest correlation?
A.-.24
B.-.22
C..19
D.-.96
This is a correlation that is best expressed as a straight line:
A.Line correlation
B.Direct correlation
C.Strong correlation
D.Linear correlation
If you wanted to compute the correlation between two nominal level variables, which type of correlation should you use?
A.Point biserial
B.Phi
C.Spearman rank
D.Pearson
If you wanted to compute the correlation between two nominal level variables, which type of correlation should you use?
A.Point biserial
B.Phi
C.Spearman rank
D.Pearson
This explores the question "how do I know that the test, scale, instrument, etc. works every time I use it?"
A.Reliability
B.Validity
C.Both reliability and validity
D.Neither reliability nor validity
This explores the question "how do I know that the test, scale, instrument, etc. measures what it is supposed to?"
A.Reliability
B.Validity
C.Both reliability and validity
D.Neither reliability nor validity
The outcome variable in an analysis is called...
A.the predictor variable
B.the treatment variable
C.the dependent variable
D.the independent variable
The predictor variable in an analysis is called...
A.the dependent variable
B.the outcome variable
C.the predictive variable
D.the independent variable
This is the least precise level of measurement.
A.Nominal
B.Ordinal
C.Interval
D.Ratio
This is the most precise level of measurement.
A.Nominal
B.Ordinal
C.Interval
D.Ratio
What type of validity is concerned with the adequate representation of test items?
A.Content validity
B.Predictive validity
C.Concurrent validity
D.Construct validity
I can say that my weekly statistics quiz fairly assesses the material covered, what source of validity evidence should I have collected?
A.Criterion validity
B.Content validity
C.Construct validity
D.Concurrent validity
High school class rank is highly correlated with college GPA. This is an example of what type of validity?
A.Concurrent validity
B.Predictive validity
C.Content validity
D.Construct validity
Two trained professionals observe the behavior of children in a classroom. They each rate observed behaviors using the same form and the number of items that were rated the same is calculated. This is an example of which type of reliability?
A.Parallel forms
B.Test-retest
C.Inter-rater
D.Internal consistency