Downloadable Test Bank – Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology, 6th Edition (Mertens)
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- 6th edition, Donna M. Mertens (SAGE, 2023)
- Over 600 questions, every answer included
- All 13 chapters, from paradigms to data use
- Multiple choice, true or false and essay
- Practice telling apart designs that are easy to confuse
- PDF and Word, emailed within minutes to hours
Description
Description
Exam practice on both research methods and program evaluation
In a course that uses Mertens, you study research methods and program evaluation from one book, and your exams can cover both. This test bank is written for the 6th edition, so the questions follow the version you are reading. Mertens also asks you to judge a study by the beliefs behind it (what she calls its paradigm), so your course can ask why a study was done a certain way, not only what the method is called. Start with the 15 sample questions below; they come from Chapter 2, Evaluation.
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Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology, 6th Edition
- Author
- Donna M. Mertens
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- November 2023
- Paperback ISBN
- 9781071853801
- eBook ISBN
- 9781071853788
- Paradigms
- Five, including Indigenous
Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology, 5th Edition
- Published
- 2020
- ISBN
- 9781544333762
- Paradigms
- Four, before the Indigenous paradigm was added
Program Evaluation Theory and Practice
- Author
- Donna M. Mertens with coauthors
- Publisher
- Guilford Press
Check the ISBN on the back cover or the copyright page of your copy. The subtitle on the cover reads Integrating Diversity With Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods. This test bank is written for the 6th edition only.
Where the practice can help before your exam
This book puts research methods and program evaluation in one volume, so there is a lot to keep straight. Working through the test bank can help you:
- Keep similar designs straight. Quasi-experimental, causal comparative and correlational studies sit in neighboring chapters and are easy to mix up.
- Get the evaluation terms right. Evaluation has its own approaches and vocabulary; the 15 samples below come from that chapter, Chapter 2.
- Explain the choices behind a study. Who was sampled, how the data were collected and how the results are used are covered in the book’s last three chapters.
- Find the chapters you still need to review, with an answer for every question to check yourself against.
Try 15 sample questions
These practice questions come from the test bank. Pick your answer, then press Show answer.
1. Patton’s perspective suggests that an evaluation’s quality is best judged by which of the following?
- A. The level of satisfaction expressed by everyone involved
- B. The amount of financial support available to the program
- C. The extent to which people put the findings into practice
- D. The proportion of findings that show favorable outcomes
Answer: C. The extent to which people put the findings into practice
2. A university involves students with disabilities in designing and conducting an evaluation of barriers to campus clubs. The evaluation explicitly seeks to challenge exclusion and expand equitable participation. Which approach best fits this work?
- A. Transformative participatory evaluation
- B. Culturally responsive evaluation
- C. Empowerment evaluation
- D. Constructivist evaluation
Answer: A. Transformative participatory evaluation
3. An evaluator judges how well a learning resource meets established standards of quality. Which term describes the quality being assessed, whether considered overall or against a specific criterion?
- A. Worth
- B. Monitoring
- C. Value
- D. Merit
Answer: D. Merit
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4. The practical approach known as Real World Evaluation grew primarily out of experience in which field?
- A. Empowerment evaluation
- B. International development evaluation
- C. Transformative inquiry
- D. Culturally responsive and equitable evaluation
Answer: B. International development evaluation
5. An evaluation team draws on stakeholder perspectives and social science concepts to explain how an initiative is expected to work. That explanation then guides the collection of evidence. Which model is the team using?
- A. Objectives-based evaluation
- B. Discrepancy evaluation
- C. Theory-based evaluation
- D. Subjective-based evaluation
Answer: C. Theory-based evaluation
6. A training director selects the CIPP framework to evaluate a new initiative. Which set of components should the evaluation address?
- A. Context, input, process, and product
- B. Content, information, product, and process
- C. Context, information, personalization, and process
- D. Content, input, personalization, and product
Answer: A. Context, input, process, and product
7. Which criticism concerns the range of perspectives represented in Alkin’s historical account of evaluation theories?
- A. It omitted the constructivist paradigm entirely.
- B. Its conclusions had little relevance to evaluation in the United States.
- C. It overlooked most of the major dimensions of evaluation.
- D. It gave insufficient representation to multicultural evaluators.
Answer: D. Insufficient representation of multicultural evaluators
8. Halfway through a semester, a coordinator reviews an advanced mathematics enrichment program. The findings will help teachers adjust the remaining sessions and inform colleagues running similar programs. Which type of evaluation best serves this purpose?
- A. Summative evaluation
- B. Formative evaluation
- C. External evaluation
- D. Internal evaluation
Answer: B. Formative evaluation
9. An evaluation team builds inclusion, diversity, and fairness into its questions, methods, interpretation, and reporting. Which framework most directly reflects this commitment?
- A. CREE
- B. CIPP
- C. Policy formation
- D. Program improvement
Answer: A. CREE
10. Which statement most closely reflects Fournier’s definition of evaluation?
- A. A direct intervention intended to resolve social problems
- B. A final statement of an investigation’s results and value
- C. A process of inquiry that collects and brings together information
- D. An assessment conducted solely to improve an existing program
Answer: C. A process of inquiry that collects and brings together information
11. Which evaluation approach places particular emphasis on strengthening participants’ self-determination?
- A. Culturally responsive evaluation
- B. Empowerment evaluation
- C. Transformative evaluation
- D. The social justice branch of evaluation
Answer: B. Empowerment evaluation
12. A student is connecting the branches of Alkin’s evaluation theory tree with research paradigms. Which paradigm should the student associate with the methods branch?
- A. Pragmatic
- B. Constructivist
- C. Transformative
- D. Postpositivist
Answer: D. Postpositivist
13. Before selecting data collection tools, an evaluator describes the initiative under review and clarifies what will be examined. Which part of the evaluation process does this work represent?
- A. Implementing the evaluation
- B. Directing the evaluation
- C. Focusing the evaluation
- D. Planning the evaluation
Answer: C. Focusing the evaluation
14. Hood and colleagues’ (2015) work on culturally responsive evaluation drew on their evaluation experiences with which communities?
- A. African American communities
- B. Rural communities
- C. Asian American communities
- D. Urban communities
Answer: A. African American communities
15. The emergence of the transformative paradigm reflected a demand for greater attention to which concern?
- A. Expanding the use of qualitative methods
- B. Recognizing and advancing equity
- C. Increasing the number of evaluations conducted
- D. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods
Answer: B. Recognizing and advancing equity
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Chapters covered
Questions for all 13 chapters of the 6th edition.
- Chapter 1: A Brief History of Research: Paradigms, Ethical Practice, and Contested Territory
- Chapter 2: Evaluation
- Chapter 3: Focusing the Research: Literature Review and Community Engagement
- Chapter 4: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research
- Chapter 5: Causal Comparative and Correlational Approaches
- Chapter 6: Survey Methods
- Chapter 7: Single-Case Research
- Chapter 8: Qualitative Research and Action Research
- Chapter 9: History, Narrative Inquiry, and Autoethnography
- Chapter 10: Mixed Methods Research
- Chapter 11: Sampling
- Chapter 12: Data Collection
- Chapter 13: Data Analysis, Interpretation, and Use
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- All 13 chapters of the 6th edition
- Multiple choice, true or false, and essay questions
- A PDF file and a Word file
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- The textbook, in print or as an eBook
- A solutions manual for this book
- SAGE’s instructor slides and lecture notes
- Questions written for the 5th edition
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