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Question 1 You have been contacted by a businesswoman who wants you to evaluate her company’s leadership training program. She wants to know whether there are pretest influences on leadership assessme

Question 1You have been contacted by a businesswoman who wants you to evaluate her company’s leadership training program. She wants to know whether there are pretest influences on leadership assessment. She wants a strong design. What design will you suggest for her?Solomon four group designPosttest only control or comparison group designPretest-posttest designPosttest-only design with nonequivalent groups0.5 points  Question 2Non-experimental qualitative designs have which of the following characteristics?An active independent variableSample a broad range of participantsRelies heavily on verbal rather than numerical dataUses mostly inferential statistical techniques0.5 points  Question 3A researcher wants to understand the sub-culture of the KKK in the Deep South. He joins the Klan and studies their behavior as an inside member of their society. This approach would be consideredPhenomenologicalEthnographicNarrativeQuasi-experimental0.5 points  Question 4A primary data collection method for case studies isInterviewsPaper and pencil testsBehavioral ratingsPhysiological measures0.5 points  Question 5We can be most confident that two variables are causally related whenThe independent variable (IV) precedes the dependent variable (DV)The independent variable (IV) and the dependent variable (DV) are associatedThere are no extraneous variables that can explain the relationship between IV and DVAll of the above are present0.5 points  Question 6The randomized experimental approach generally eliminates bias in assigning participants.TrueFalse0.5 points  Question 7When matching is used, the characteristic that is matched must NOT be related to the dependent variable.TrueFalse0.5 points  Question 8Purposive sampling is an example of probability sampling.TrueFalse0.5 points  Question 9With a stratified random probability sample, the sample needs to be weighted according to the population proportions to most adequately describe the population.TrueFalse0.5 points  Question 10A convenience sample always selects participants who are representative of the accessible population.TrueFalse