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Chapter One
2. Which of the following represents a way research has become a part of modern public
policy and management?
A. Performance measure
B. Program evaluation
C. Evidence-based policy
*D. All of the above
3. A way that evidence can mislead audiences if not done properly is through:
A. Misleading Measurements
B. Misleading Samples
C. Misleading Correlations
*D.All of the above
10. A reading test that shows an improvement in reading, when in fact no such
improvement has occurred, is an example of a misleading ________________
*a. measurement
11. A poll that aims to describe the movie-going habits of all US adults, taken of people
coming out of movie theaters, is an example of a misleading _________________.
*a. sample
12. A study of grade school children found that shoe size is related to reading ability
(children with bigger feet read better). But the study forgot to take account of the
children’s ages. This is an example of a misleading _____________.
*a. correlation
13. Original data that are collected by the researcher him/herself is called
______________ data, whereas data that collected by others is called _____________
data.
*a. primary; secondary
14. Because social and policy research is difficult to pin down, researchers often employ
multiple methods to confirm their findings, an approach called _______________.
*a. triangulation
16. The process of research involves competition and criticism, such that most research
journals and funding programs use a ________________ process to render a judgment on
the worth of the paper or proposal.
*a. peer-review
18. Philosophers refer to the many ways of knowing about the world as
__________________.
*a. epistemologies
19. A researcher who makes observations and then develops a logical explanation is
using the ____________ approach to employ the scientific method.
*a. inductive
20. A research who begins with a logical explanation and then gathers evidence to
support this explanation is utilizing the ______________ approach to employ the
scientific method.
a. deductive
21. _________ is the ability to take the results of research and apply them in situations
other than the exact one in which the research was carried out.
*a. generalizability
22. Discuss how evidence can be misleading, if not embarrassing, if it is not done
according to proper methods
@ (See page 6)
*a. Answers will vary
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