Study Guide
MA 211 Item Bank
Quiz 2: Chapters 7-9
Chapter 7
Multiple-Choice Questions 1. What does a hypothesis help you determine? a. Statisitcal techniques to be used b. Research question c. Average score d. Sampling error 2. Which of the following refers to the group to which you wish to generalize your results? e. Sample f. Population g. Sampling error population h. General group 3. What does “generalizability” mean? i. Results may be applied to the populations studied j. Results may apply only to the sample studied k. Sampling error is high l. Sample does not represent the population 4. The group from which you actually collect data for your study is known as the __________. m. sample n. population o. sampling error p. general group 5. Which of the following provides you with a measure of how well your sample approximates the population? q. Generalizability r. Population s. Sampling error t. Hypothesis 6. In order to help ensure generalizability, which of the following should be true about your sample? u. It is large v. It is small w. It is representative x. It is nonrepresentative 7. Which of the following represents a null hypothesis? y. H1: X1 > X2 z. H0: 1 = 2 {. H1: X1 = X2 |. H0: 1 > 2 8. Which of the following represents a directional research hypothesis? }. H1: X1 > X2 ~. H0: 1 = 2 . H1: X1 = X2 . H0: 1 > 2 9. Which of the following represents a nondirectional research hypothesis? . H1: X1 > X2 . H0: 1 = 2 . H1: X1 = X2 . H0: 1 > 2 10. What test would you want to use to test a nondirectional research hypothesis? . One-tailed test . Two-tailed test . Nonparametric test . Frequency test 11. What test would you want to use to test
Quiz 2: Chapters 7-9
Chapter 7
Multiple-Choice Questions 1. What does a hypothesis help you determine? a. Statisitcal techniques to be used b. Research question c. Average score d. Sampling error 2. Which of the following refers to the group to which you wish to generalize your results? e. Sample f. Population g. Sampling error population h. General group 3. What does “generalizability” mean? i. Results may be applied to the populations studied j. Results may apply only to the sample studied k. Sampling error is high l. Sample does not represent the population 4. The group from which you actually collect data for your study is known as the __________. m. sample n. population o. sampling error p. general group 5. Which of the following provides you with a measure of how well your sample approximates the population? q. Generalizability r. Population s. Sampling error t. Hypothesis 6. In order to help ensure generalizability, which of the following should be true about your sample? u. It is large v. It is small w. It is representative x. It is nonrepresentative 7. Which of the following represents a null hypothesis? y. H1: X1 > X2 z. H0: 1 = 2 {. H1: X1 = X2 |. H0: 1 > 2 8. Which of the following represents a directional research hypothesis? }. H1: X1 > X2 ~. H0: 1 = 2 . H1: X1 = X2 . H0: 1 > 2 9. Which of the following represents a nondirectional research hypothesis? . H1: X1 > X2 . H0: 1 = 2 . H1: X1 = X2 . H0: 1 > 2 10. What test would you want to use to test a nondirectional research hypothesis? . One-tailed test . Two-tailed test . Nonparametric test . Frequency test 11. What test would you want to use to test