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Briefly describe the Classical School of Criminology. Identify the three characteristics of punishment. Briefly describe the Neoclassical School of Criminology.
Write a short essay (1000-1500 words) on a topic in solar system astronomy. There are a wide variety of topics you can choose for your project.
Identify a case study and then develop a nutritional care plan for the client. List the specific nutrition issues affecting individuals in your selected stage.
Identify one discipline-specific competency that you could use in your project. How does it apply to your project?
What is the current cost and schedule for the exam? Would you take the exam to obtain the Certified Health Education Specialist credential?
Describe in your own words the techniques that scientists use to help them avoid drawing statistically invalid conclusions.
Consider what type of information you will look for, how you will find it, and how it should be content coded.
Make a tape recording of a student meeting. Discuss methods that could be used to meaningfully organize and code the statements made by the students.
Design an observational study of your own, including the creation of a set of behavioral categories that would be used to code for one or more variables.
What kinds of questions can be answered through archival research, and what kinds of data might be relevant?
What is systematic observation, and what techniques are used to make observations systematic?
Discuss the situations in which a researcher may choose to use a naturalistic research approach and the questions such an approach can and cannot answer.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of being an acknowledged or unacknowledged participant or observer in observational research?
If the margin of error of each poll is plus or minus 3 percent, what should be concluded about polls and about the public's preferences for the two candidates?
Develop a topic of interest to you, and prepare both a structured and an unstructured interview.
Under what conditions is sampling bias likely to occur, what are its effects on generalization, and how can it be avoided?
Compare a sample and a population. Under what circumstances can a sample be used to draw conclusions about a population?
Develop a behavioral or a free-format self-report measure of the conceptual variable you assessed in problem 1, and collect relevant data from the same people.
Compute the scale's reliability, and then, using a statistical software program, delete items until the scale's reliability reaches at least .75 or stops increa
What is the importance of predictive validity? In what ways does predictive validity differ from construct validity?
Compare the assessment of face, content, and construct validity. Which of the three approaches is most objective, and why?
What is the relationship between reliability and validity? Why is it possible to have reliable measure that is not valid but impossible to have a valid measure?
Consider a measure that shows high internal consistency but low test-retest reliability. What can be concluded about the measure?
How are split-half reliability and coefficient alpha used to assess the internal consistency of a measured variable?
Since they can capture the behavior of individuals more honestly, why are they so infrequently used in behavioral research?