Question 1

In Wood and Bootzin's study of nightmares following earthquakes, students living in the area of the earthquake and who experienced it were in the experimental group. The nonequivalent control group consisted of

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A)   comparable students who heard of the earthquake but lived at a university far away from it
B)   students living in the quake area who slept through it
C)   parents of the students
D)   comparable students who lived at a distant university and had not heard about the earthquakeE) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 2

A nonequivalent control group design usually (but not necessarily)  includes

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A)   pretests
B)   random assignment
C)   causal conclusions
D)   a single group given pretest, then treatment, then posttestE) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 3

The time series study on California's "three strikes and you're out" program to reduce crime used which of the following variations on the basic time series design?

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A)   the researchers added an "interruption" to the sequence of events
B)   the researchers added a switching replication, comparing California with another state that implemented the program 6 months after California
C)   the researchers added a control group, comparing California with Texas
D)   the researchers added a second dependent variable, comparing felonies with misdemeanorsE) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 4

Using the system developed by Campbell and Stanley, which design is this?

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A)   P x E factorial design
B)   a multiple case study
C)   nonequivalent control group design
D)   interrupted time series designE) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 5

In a study comparing two nonequivalent groups, a selection by history confound occurs when

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A)   some event intervenes between pretest and posttest and affects just one of the groups
B)   some event intervenes between pretest and posttest and affects both selected groups equally
C)   selection influences one of the groups and history influences the other
D)   some historical event causes a failure of the random assignment procedureE) A) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 6

Archival research has to deal with all of the following problems except

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A)   experimenter bias
B)   nonrepresentative information
C)   subject reactivity
D)   missing dataE) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 7

Experiment is to quasi-experiment as _____ is to _____.

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A)   internal validity; external validity
B)   equivalent groups; nonequivalent groups
C)   positive correlation; negative correlation
D)   control group; no control groupE) All of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 8

What is involved in a typical cost-effectiveness analysis and how does this type of analysis affect program assessment?

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Question 9

Which of the following is a problem with archival research?

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A)   it is not possible to include an independent variable
B)   there is no way to control any extraneous factors
C)   the researcher is limited by the manner is which data were originally collected
D)   there is a very limited amount of archival data available to researchersE) All of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 10

Informed consent can be a problem in program evaluation research. Why?

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A)   there tends to be a high rate of attrition in this research
B)   powerless clients might believe that a failure to give consent would have adverse consequences for them
C)   most subjects in these studies are under the age of 18
D)   subjects often cannot be reached before the study beginsE) A) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 11

The following questions relate to this study:
Teachers in a local school district are given a test of computer literacy (0-100, with 100 being perfect) . Then during the school year they have monthly in-service programs designed to improve their computer literacy. Their computer knowledge is assessed again at the end of the year. Their average pretest score is 40 and their average posttest score is 80. Teachers in a comparable school district aren't given the training, but they do get the pretest and posttest.
-This study uses a _________ design.

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A)   mixed factorial design
B)   nonequivalent control group
C)   interrupted time series
D)   time series with a control groupE) A) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 12

Campbell's "reforms as experiments" article includes a description of an evaluation of a state police crackdown on speeding in Connecticut. There were 324 fatalities in the year before the crackdown and 284 in the year after. According to Campbell, the program was partially the cause of the drop, but ______ also occurred.

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A)   selection
B)   maturation
C)   instrumentation
D)   regression to the meanE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 13

Consider the methodological principles you have learned about so far. The Hollingworth's Coca-Cola study incorporating several of these principles. Which of the following did they not use in their study?

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A)   a factorial design
B)   a double blind
C)   a placebo control condition
D)   counterbalancingE) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

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