Hints for Quiz 4 on Formulating and Refining Research Topic  

1. When investigators choose a research topic because of personal interest, the research is often less useful because WHY?
2. Why is cancer research funded at a much higher level than SIDS?
3. What is word describes the process of defining concepts?
4. How does the lit. review help a researcher plan his/her research?
5. Which unit of analysis is not commonly used in human service research?
6. What's the best illustration of the "program" as a unit of analysis?
7. What does ecological fallacy mean?
8. If you want to study changes in individuals, what type of research should you do?
9. What is a weakness of cross-sectional research?
10. Structured questions in which the response choices are provided require more or less time to analyze compared to open (less structured) questions?
11. What's the difference between a pretest and a pilot study?