A researcher asks five questions of a sample of community residents to find out how much they fear crime and whether their level of fear was influenced by a recent well-publicized murder in the community. Explain what the three dimensions of validity would refer to in this study and why they are important.
What will be an ideal response?
Measurement validity--questions measure what they are suppose to measure; generalizability--can these questions and findings based on these questions be applied to the general public; internal validity--does the findings from these questions reflect the level of fear in the community.
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A) normal validity. B) external validity. C) construct validity. D) statistical validity.
Both explanatory and evaluation research studies are concerned with the causes and effects of social phenomena. The difference between them is that evaluation research focuses on the ______.
A. effect of particular policies or programs B. meanings that people give their actions C. description of the social phenomena of interest D. consideration of the impact of social context