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Week Five Homework Exercise
1. What are single-case designs and when are they most useful?
2. How may a researcher enhance the generalizability of the results of a single case design?
3. What is the relationship between quasi-experiments and confounding variables? Provide an example
4. Provide examples of: one-group posttest designs and one-group pretest and posttest designs. What are the limitations of each?
5. Provide examples of non-equivalent control group designs. What are the advantages of having a control group?
6. What is a quasi-experimental research design? Why would a researcher use a quasi-experimental design rather than a true experimental design?
7. What is the difference between a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study? What is a sequential study? Which of these designs is most vulnerable to cohort effects? Which design is most vulnerable to the effects of attrition?
8. What are the differences between: needs assessment, program assessment, process evaluation, outcome evaluation, and efficacy assessment? Why is program evaluation important to the field?
9. A researcher wants to investigate patriotic behavior across the lifespan. She samples people in the following age groups: 18-28, 29-39, 40-50, 51-60, and 61 and above. All participants are interviewed and asked to complete questionnaires and rating scales about patriotic behavior. This type of developmental research design is called __Cross-Sectional______________. What is the primary disadvantage of this type of design? Explain.
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History of institution
: Discuss the history of your institution. How did it emerge? How did it come into existence? How do members of society perceive your institution?
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Draw a free energy versus reaction coordinate diagram
: Explain why in words and with pictures/other structures, if appropriate (using arguments based on relative charge stability). You do not need to draw a free energy versus reaction coordinate diagram.
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Differences between forcible rape and statutory rape
: Identify the several types of child abuse that fall under the categories of maltreatment. Describe the differences between forcible rape and statutory rape
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Qualities of a successful it manager
: The IT manager is a leader intensive profession. He or she plays a central role in the development of the project. What are the strengths a good IT manager must have to be successful?
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Quasi-experimental research design
: What is the difference between a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study? What is a sequential study? Which of these designs is most vulnerable to cohort effects? Which design is most vulnerable to the effects of attrition?
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Race and sex in the workplace
: The purpose of this assignment is to explore race, gender, and occupational stratification in the workforce. To complete this assignment, perform the following tasks:
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Investigating the effects of anxiety on creativity.
: A researcher is studying reading rates in milliseconds per syllable. What scale of measurement-nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio-is time in milliseconds? Explain your response.
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Pci, inc.''s current level of cash flow
: Assuming the 8% discount rate and assuming fixed cash flows, what does MCS expect to be able to realize as a net annual cash flow beginning next year?
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What is meant by degrees of freedom
: What is meant by "degrees of freedom"? As the degrees of freedom increase, what happens to the graph of a t-distribution? Why would you use a z-test rather than a t-test? Which do you think you will use more often? Why
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