Ch.12 Exam Prep Summarizing And Reporting Research - Fundamentals of Research in Criminology 5th Edition Test Bank by Ronet D. Bachman. DOCX document preview.
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Chapter 12: Summarizing and Reporting Research
Multiple Choice
1. One of the goals of social science reporting is to ______.
a. advance scientific knowledge
b. shape academic policy
c. organize traditional action
d. all of these
Learning Objective: 12.1: Describe the three basic goals of research reports.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Research Report Goals
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. This perspective suggests more explicit concern with public policy implications when reporting research results.
a. advance scientific knowledge
b. shape social policy
c. organize traditional action
d. all of these
Learning Objective: 12.1: Describe the three basic goals of research reports.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Research Report Goals
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. William Foote Whyte has criticized the belief that research is a nonscientific concern and proposes an alternative research and reporting strategy he calls ______.
a. scientific knowledge in academics (SKA)
b. shaping social policy (SSP)
c. participatory action research (PAR)
d. reporting goals in research (RGR)
Learning Objective: 12.1: Describe the three basic goals of research reports.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Research Report Goals
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. This methodology emphasizes the importance of exploring how different stakeholders in a social setting construct their beliefs ______ paradigm.
a. interpretivist
b. constructivist
c. applied
d. ethical
Learning Objective: 12.1: Describe the three basic goals of research reports.
Cognitive Domain: Medium
Answer Location: Dialogue With Research Subjects
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. One or more professors is the audience for this final product.
a. semester group project
b. senior presentation
c. student research paper or thesis
d. group presentation
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Student Papers and Theses
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. As much as possible, thesis committee members should ______.
a. have complementary areas of expertise that are each important for the research project
b. have divergent areas of interest and expertise
c. not work together during the time they are serving on your committee
d. have little contact with one another during the time they are serving on your committee
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Student Papers and Theses
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Most leading journals have a rejection rate through the peer review process of ______.
a. less than 15%
b. 25%
c. 50%
d. over 90%
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Student Papers and Theses
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. There are typically ______ standard sections within a journal article (in addition to the title page).
a. two
b. four
c. five
d. seven
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Student Papers and Theses
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. The most important problem that applied researchers confront is(are) the ______.
a. formatting constraints on the report as provided to the organization
b. desire for the report to be liked by the funder
c. need to produce a final report that meets the funding organization’s expectations
d. desired length of the report
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Applied Reports
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. According to Booth, Colomb, & Williams (1995), it is best to begin writing ______.
a. with an outline
b. by paying attention to grammar and spelling, because it is easier to fix problems at the beginning, rather than farther into the process
c. at the last possible minute so that you have time to formulate your thoughts properly
d. in a linear fashion
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Curbing the Frustrations of Writing
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. Outlining a first complete draft on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis is known as ______ outlining.
a. converse
b. reverse
c. volte-face
d. inverse
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Curbing the Frustrations of Writing
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. In a combined frequency display, the distributions for a set of conceptually similar variables ______.
a. with varying response categories are presented together, with common headings for the responses
b. eliminate unnecessary percentages, and reduce the need for repetitive labels
c. with the same response categories are presented together, with common headings for the responses
d. eliminate some of the percentages, which reduces the need for labels
Learning Objective: 12.7: Understand the need to display results without redundant information using compressed displays.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Displaying Data
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. Compressed frequency displays can be used to present cross-tabular data and summary statistics more efficiently, by ______.
a. eliminating some of the percentages so that the table is easier to read
b. eliminating unnecessary percentages (such as those corresponding to the second value of a dichotomous variable) and by reducing the need for repetitive labels
c. reducing the amount of information to make it easier to read
d. including only multivariate information to make it easier to understand
Learning Objective: 12.7: Understand the need to display results without redundant information using compressed displays.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Displaying Data
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. The presentation of findings in qualitative studies should be organized into sections ______.
a. in the same ways they are presented in quantitative studies
b. reflecting quantitative findings
c. without regard to the researcher’s personal feelings or interests in the topic
d. reflecting different themes identified in interviews or observational sessions
Learning Objective: 12.3: List the major sections of a research article.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Special Considerations for Reporting Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. Reports on mixed-methods projects should include subsections in the methods section ______, and then distinguish findings from qualitative and quantitative analyses in the findings section
a. to detail how to methods were combined
b. that introduce each method
c. that provide minute details about how every change was made in every step of the research
d. to focus on misleading graphs or statistics
Learning Objective: 12.4: Describe the elements that should be considered in writing research reports to ensure adherence to the ethical standard of honesty.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Ethics, Politics, and Reporting Research
Difficulty Level: Hard
16. The sociologist William Julius Wilson (1998) urges researchers to ______.
a. avoid sending findings to media outlets because they just confuse the public
b. present the big picture whereby the arguments are organized and presented so that the readers can see how the various parts are interrelated
c. focus on narrow issues when reaching out to the public
d. use academically technical language so that the public can see you know what you are talking about
Learning Objective: 12.4: Describe the elements that should be considered in writing research reports to ensure adherence to the ethical standard of honesty.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Communicating With the Public
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. When it comes to research publications and reports, plagiarism is ______.
a. a diminishing problem on college campuses due to education about how to avoid it
b. something that only students need to be aware of, not professional researchers
c. presenting as one’s own the ideas or words of another person or persons for academic evaluation without proper acknowledgment
d. not an issue in most academic settings
Learning Objective: 12.5: Discuss the motivations for plagiarism and the ways of avoiding suspicions of plagiarism.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Plagiarism
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. Plagiarism is not only a problem when it comes to student papers, it is also about the work of ______.
a. established scholars
b. several noted historians
c. social researchers
d. all of these
Learning Objective: 12.5: Discuss the motivations for plagiarism and the ways of avoiding suspicions of plagiarism.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Plagiarism
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. Hard et al. (2006) conducted an anonymous survey in one university and found that ______.
a. over half of students reported that they had either copied from a book, article or other academic source or from the Internet and submitted it as their own work
b. 60.6% of students reported that they had copied from a book, article or other academic source and 39.4% reported that they had “copied information from Internet [websites] and submitted it as [their] work”
c. over 80% of students reported that they had either copied from a book, article or other academic source or from the Internet and submitted it as their own work
d. under 25% of students reported that they had either copied from a book, article or other academic source or from the Internet and submitted it as their own work
Learning Objective: 12.5: Discuss the motivations for plagiarism and the ways of avoiding suspicions of plagiarism.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Plagiarism
Difficulty Level: Hard
20. A primary way to avoid plagiarism is to ______.
a. reword your writing, using similar words or phrases from the source
b. maintain careful procedures for documenting the sources that you rely on for your own research and papers
c. recycle your previous words and phrases when writing on a similar topic
d. ask for permission if you want to use more than 60% of someone else’s words
Learning Objective: 12.5: Discuss the motivations for plagiarism and the ways of avoiding suspicions of plagiarism.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Plagiarism
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. Following appropriate guidelines ______.
a. will prevent controversy and conflict over research on sensitive issues.
b. will allow ethical researchers to avoid political controversy by sidestepping issues.
c. allows researchers the opportunity to communicate the practical application of their research through the media
d. offers researchers the opportunity to avoid becoming entangled in these mechanisms
Learning Objective: 12.4: Describe the elements that should be considered in writing research reports to ensure adherence to the ethical standard of honesty.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Communicating With the Public
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. Researchers have an obligation to be ______.
a. familiar with codes of ethics and their application to their work
b. knowledgeable about dealing with lack of awareness
c. questioning about a lack of awareness
d. secure in the familiarity of codes of ethics
Learning Objective: 12.5: Discuss the motivations for plagiarism and the ways of avoiding suspicions of plagiarism.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Plagiarism
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. When students are motivated only by the desire to ace their tests and receive better grades than others, they are more likely to ______.
a. strive to do well in school
b. work hard in order to reach their goal
c. plagiarize and use other illicit means to achieve that goal
d. do everything they can not to cheat in school
Learning Objective: 12.5: Discuss the motivations for plagiarism and the ways of avoiding suspicions of plagiarism.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Careers and Research: Mitchell Bezzina, BS, Cybersecurity Consultant
Difficulty Level: Medium
24. Top journals generally maintain very high standards, partly because they have ______.
a. a lot of monetary resources to maintain them
b. good critics in the review process and distinguished editors who make the final acceptance decisions
c. the respect of many students who look up to them
d. definitive answers about the way it should be done
Learning Objective: 12.4: Describe the elements that should be considered in writing research reports to ensure adherence to the ethical standard of honesty.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Conclusion
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. Social research methods are no more useful than the ______.
a. readers who follow them
b. claims of less than credible researchers who use them
c. interpretations made by less than credible researchers
d. commitment of researchers to their proper application
Learning Objective: 12.6: Identify major steps in the review of research reports.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Conclusion
Difficulty Level: Hard
26. The stage of reporting research results is the ______.
a. last in the process
b. point at which the need for new research is identified
c. place where the researcher is least concerned about the findings
d. place to highlight the educational achievements of the researcher
Learning Objective: 12.3: List the major sections of a research article.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: What Do We Have In Mind?
Difficulty Level: Easy
27. In designing a proposal and in negotiating access to a setting for the research, commitments often must be made to ______.
a. give credit to those who have traditionally tried to distance themselves from the research
b. the concerns of a narrow readership
c. produce a particular type of report or, at least, to cover certain issues in the final report
d. create a research goal which does not attempt to reflect orientations and concerns out of the community
Learning Objective: 12.1: Describe the three basic goals of research reports.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Research Report Goals
Difficulty Level: Medium
28. Explicit concern with public policy implications when reporting research results may lead to ______.
a. distortion of our research and our interpretations of research results to correspond to our own value preferences
b. perfectly acceptable reports
c. acceptable research reports that push forward public policy
d. undistorted views of future research
Learning Objective: 12.1: Describe the three basic goals of research reports.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Shape Social Policy
Difficulty Level: Medium
29. Torre and Fine became involved in PAR to facilitate a ______.
a. high school educational program in upstate New York
b. college and college-bound program at the Performing Arts School in New York City
c. college and college-bound program at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York
d. upper high school program for potentially college bound students in New York
Learning Objective: 12.6: Identify major steps in the review of research reports.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Case Study: Seeking Higher Education for Inmates
Difficulty Level: Medium
30. Research projects designed to produce specific kinds of papers ______.
a. are written using basically the same formula
b. all have unique features that will influence the final research report.
c. are more similar than they are different
d. match up neatly with each other
Learning Objective: 12.1: Describe the three basic goals of research reports.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Research Reports
Difficulty Level: Medium
31. The ______ process makes preparation of an academic journal article most unique.
a. criminological research
b. thesis committee
c. final report
d. peer review
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Journal Articles
Difficulty Level: Medium
32. Applied reports are usually commissioned by a(n) ______.
a. hired gun
b. particular government agency, corporation or nonprofit organization
c. academic journal
d. particular methodology
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Applied Reports
Difficulty Level: Medium
33. The fine art of writing is in the ______.
a. reworking
b. reorganization
c. rewriting
d. reconnaissance
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Curbing the Frustrations of Writing
Difficulty Level: Medium
34. The presentation of findings in qualitative studies may be organized into sections ______.
a. indicating differences within each
b. reflecting different themes identified in interviews or observational sessions
c. showing how limited discussions are best
d. indicating similarities between them
Learning Objective: 12.6: Identify major steps in the review of research reports.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Special Considerations for Reporting Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Difficulty Level: Hard
35. Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, falsely led medical doctors to believe that ______.
a. there might be a health care crisis in the U.S.
b. a cocaine substitute was responsible for creating the health care problems
c. OxyContin was less habit forming than other opioid pain relievers, creating a health care crisis in the U.S.
d. OxyContin was no more habit forming than other drugs on the market
Learning Objective: 12.6: Identify major steps in the review of research reports.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Research In the News: Criminalizing Fraud Related to the OxyContin Crisis
Difficulty Level: Hard
True/False
1. The traditional scientific approach encourages a research goal to advance scientific knowledge by providing reports to other scientists.
Learning Objective: 12.1: Describe the three basic goals of research reports.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Advance Scientific Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. There should, as a result, be a strict separation between the determination of empirical facts and the evaluation of these facts as satisfactory or unsatisfactory
Learning Objective: 12.1: Describe the three basic goals of research reports.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Advance Scientific Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. What distinguishes the reports of policy-oriented social science research studies from strictly academic reports is their attention to policy implications.
Learning Objective: 12.1: Describe the three basic goals of research reports.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Shape Social Policy
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Whyte (1991) argues that social scientists must get “out of the academic rut” and engage in applied research to develop better understanding of social phenomena.
Learning Objective: 12.1: Describe the three basic goals of research reports.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Organize Social Action—Participatory Action Research
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. The interpretivist paradigm is a methodology that emphasizes the importance of exploring how different stakeholders in a social setting construct their beliefs.
Learning Objective: 12.1: Describe the three basic goals of research reports.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Dialogue With Research Subjects
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. What is most distinctive about a student research paper or thesis is the audience for the final product: a professor or (for a thesis) a committee of professors.
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Student Papers and Theses
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Students who are preparing a paper for a committee must be prepared to integrate the multiple perspectives and comments of committee members into a plan for a coherent final report.
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Student Papers and Theses
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Peer reviewers do not have to be experts in the field or fields represented in the paper under review.
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Student Papers and Theses
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. Applied reports that are written in a less highly charged environment can face a problem when their conclusions are ignored.
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Applied Reports
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Reverse outlining can help with determining if there is enough time to revise a draft.
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Curbing the Frustrations of Writing
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. In a combined frequency display, the distributions for a set of conceptually similar variables with the same response categories are presented together, with common headings for the responses.
Learning Objective: 12.7: Understand the need to display results without redundant information using compressed displays.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Displaying Data
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Compressed frequency displays can be used to present cross-tabular data and summary statistics more efficiently.
Learning Objective: 12.7: Understand the need to display results without redundant information using compressed displays.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Displaying Data
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. Reports based on quantitative research should be enriched in each section with elements that reflect the more holistic and reflexive approach of quantitative projects
Learning Objective: 12.3: List the major sections of a research article.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Special Considerations for Reporting Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Provide an honest accounting of how the research was carried out and about every time the research design had to be changed.
Learning Objective: 12.4: Describe the elements that should be considered in writing research reports to ensure adherence to the ethical standard of honesty.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Ethics, Politics, and Reporting Research
Difficulty Level: Hard
15. There is no particular order of authorship for coauthored reports.
Learning Objective: 12.4: Describe the elements that should be considered in writing research reports to ensure adherence to the ethical standard of honesty.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Ethics, Politics, and Reporting Research
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. Highlight important findings in the research report, but use the report also to point out what are likely to be the most productive directions for future researchers.
Learning Objective: 12.6: Identify major steps in the review of research reports.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Ethics, Politics, and Reporting Research
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. Sociologist William Julius Wilson (1998) urges the engagement of the public through the media and encouraging people to focus on issues that are not very high on the public agenda.
Learning Objective: 12.4: Describe the elements that should be considered in writing research reports to ensure adherence to the ethical standard of honesty.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Communicating With the Public
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. Presenting as one’s own the ideas or words of another person or persons for academic evaluation without proper acknowledgement is plagiarism.
Learning Objective: 12.5: Discuss the motivations for plagiarism and the ways of avoiding suspicions of plagiarism.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Plagiarism
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. Lack of awareness or misunderstanding of an ethical standard is a defense to a charge of unethical conduct.
Learning Objective: 12.5: Discuss the motivations for plagiarism and the ways of avoiding suspicions of plagiarism.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Plagiarism
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. When students are motivated only by the desire to ace their tests and receive better grades than others, they are more likely to plagiarize and use other illicit means to achieve that goal.
Learning Objective: 12.5: Discuss the motivations for plagiarism and the ways of avoiding suspicions of plagiarism.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Plagiarism
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. Strictly academic reports may be distinguished from evaluation studies by their attention to policy implications.
Learning Objective: 12.1: Describe the three basic goals of research reports.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Shape Social Policy
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. Torre and Fine used a randomized experimental design to track participants in the college program after their release from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Case Study: Seeking Higher Education for Inmates
Difficulty Level: Hard
23. Despite the slight variations in style across journals, there are typically six standard sections within a journal article in addition to the title page
Learning Objective: 12.3: List the major sections of a research article.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Journal Articles
Difficulty Level: Easy
24. Beginning with a reasonable methodology is the first step in writing the final report on a research project.
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Curbing the Frustrations of Writing
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. Ethical research reporting means that you must track and report every twist and turn in the conceptualization of the conduct of the research.
Learning Objective: 12.4: Describe the elements that should be considered in writing research reports to ensure adherence to the ethical standard of honesty.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Ethics, Politics, and Reporting Research
Difficulty Level: Medium
Short Answer
1. What are the three basic goals of research reports?
Learning Objective: 12.1: Describe the three basic goals of research reports.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Research Report Goals
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. What is unique about writing student papers and theses that may influence the final report?
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Research Reports
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. What is unique about writing journal articles that may influence the final report? How does the peer review process fit in?
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Journal Articles
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. What are the sections of a journal article?
Learning Objective: 12.3: List the major sections of a research article.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Journal Articles
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. What is an applied report? By whom are they commissioned? How is it different from a journal article?
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Applied Reports
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. According to Booth, Colomb, & Williams (1995), what are the principles formulated by experienced writers?
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Curbing the Frustrations of Writing
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. What is Reverse Outlining? How is it helpful in the writing process?
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Curbing the Frustrations of Writing
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. What is a combined frequency display? Give an example.
Learning Objective: 12.7: Understand the need to display results without redundant information using compressed displays.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Displaying Data
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. What are compressed frequency displays? How can they be useful?
Learning Objective: 12.7: Understand the need to display results without redundant information using compressed displays.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Displaying Data
Difficulty Level: Hard
10. What should every quantitative research report include? How may the sections be different in qualitative reports?
Learning Objective: 12.3: List the major sections of a research article.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Special Considerations for Reporting Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. What should every qualitative research report include? How may the sections be different from quantitative reports?
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Research In the News: Criminalizing Fraud Related to the OxyContin Crisis
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. How should reports on mixed-methods projects be presented?
Learning Objective: 12.3: List the major sections of a research article.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Research In the News: Criminalizing Fraud Related to the OxyContin Crisis
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. What are guidelines on ethically reporting research?
Learning Objective: 12.4: Describe the elements that should be considered in writing research reports to ensure adherence to the ethical standard of honesty.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Ethics, Politics, and Reporting Research
Difficulty Level: Hard
14. What is plagiarism? What are motivations for plagiarism? How may one avoid the suspicion of plagiarism?
Learning Objective: 12.5: Discuss the motivations for plagiarism and the ways of avoiding suspicions of plagiarism.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Plagiarism
Difficulty Level: Hard
15. Describe the research conducted by Torre and Fine at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility (BHCF), a maximum-security women’s prison in New York, involving PAR to facilitate a college and college-bound program.
Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify unique problems that must be overcome in writing student papers, theses, applied research reports, and journal articles.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Case Study: Seeking Higher Education for Inmates
Difficulty Level: Hard
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