Negros Oriental State University, Bayawan-Sta.

Catalina Campus Villareal, Bayawan City, Negros Oriental College of Education 2013 Final Examination in SPEC Math 11 (Statistics) Name: ________________________ Score: ______ Rating: ______

Multiple Choice Instruction: Read the problems carefully and choose the letter that corresponds to the correct answer. Encircle the letter that corresponds to the correct answer. If the correct answer is not on the given choices, just write e on the space before each number. AVOID ERASURES. Any erasure will invalidate your answer. 1) The purpose of this method of research is to describe systematically a situation or area of interest factually and accurately. a. Historical b. Descriptive Survey c. Experimental d. Developmental 2) The purpose of this method of research is to reconstruct the past objectively and accurately, often in relation to the tenability of the hypothesis. a. Historical b. Descriptive Survey c. Experimental d. Developmental 3) The purpose of this method of research is to investigate patterns and sequences of growth and or change as a function of time. a. Historical b. Descriptive Survey c. Case and Field d. Developmental 4) The purpose of this method of research is to study intensively the background, current status, and environmental interactions of a given social unit: an individual, group, institution, or community. a. Historical b. Correlational c. Case and Field d. Developmental 5) The purpose of this method of research is to investigate possible cause-and-effect relationships by observing some existing consequence and searching back through the data for plausible casual factors. a. Experimental b. Causal-Comparative or "Ex-Post Facto" c. Quasi-Experimental d. Correlational 6) The purpose of this method of research is to investigate possible cause-and-effect relationships by exposing one or more experimental groups to one or more treatment conditions and comparing the results to one or more control groups not receiving the treatment (random assignment being essential). a. Experimental b. Causal-Comparative or "Ex-Post Facto" c. Quasi-Experimental d. Correlational 7) The purpose of this method of research is to approximate the conditions of the true experiment in a setting which does not allow the control and/or manipulation of all relevant variables. a. Experimental b. Causal-Comparative or "Ex-Post Facto" c. Quasi-Experimental d. Correlational 8) The purpose of this method of research is to investigate the extent to which variations in one factor correspond with variations in one or more other factors based on correlation coefficients. a. Experimental b. Causal-Comparative or "Ex-Post Facto" c. Quasi-Experimental d. Correlational 9) The purpose of this method of research is to develop new skills or new approaches and to solve problems with direct application to the classroom or other applied setting. a. Historical b. Correlational c. Action d. Developmental 10) An example of this method of research is a study reconstructing practices in teaching of spelling in the United States during the past fifty years. a. Historical b. Correlational c. Action d. Developmental 11) An example of this method of research is a trend study projecting the future growth and educations needs of a community from past trends and recent building estimates. a. Historical b. Correlational c. Action d. Developmental
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12) An example of this method of research is population census studies, public opinion surveys, factfinding surveys, status studies, task analysis studies, questionnaire and interview studies, observation studies, job descriptions, surveys of the literature, documentary analyses, anecdotal records, critical incident reports, test score analyses, and normative data. a. Historical b. Descriptive Survey c. Experimental d. Developmental 13) An example of this method of research is an intensive study of a group of teenage youngsters on probation for drug abuse. a. Experimental b. Correlational c. Case and Field d. Developmental 14) An example of this method of research is to investigate relationships between reading achievement scores and one or more other variables of interest. a. Experimental b. Correlational c. Case and Field d. Developmental 15) An example of this method of research is a study to predict success in college based on intercorrelation patterns between college grades and selected high school variables. a. Experimental b. Correlational c. Historical d. Developmental 16) An example of this method of research is to investigate similarities and differences between such groups as smokers and nonsmokers, or delinquents and non-delinquents, using data on file. a. Experimental b. Causal-Comparative or "Ex-Post Facto" c. Quasi-Experimental d. Correlational 17) An example of this method of research is to identify factors related to the "drop-out" problem in a particular high school using data from records over the past ten years. a. Experimental b. Causal-Comparative or "Ex-Post Facto" c. Quasi-Experimental d. Correlational 18) An example of this method of research is to investigate the effectiveness of three methods of teaching reading to first grade children using random assignments of children and teachers to groups and methods. a. Experimental b. Causal-Comparative or "Ex-Post Facto" c. Quasi-Experimental d. Correlational 19) An example of this method of research is a cross-sectional growth study investigating changing patterns of intelligence by sampling groups of children at ten different age levels. a. Experimental b. Correlational c. Historical d. Developmental 20) In a given set of data, it is the one which occurred the most. a. median b. mean c. average

d. mode

21) Among the three measures of central tendency, it is the one which is used most frequently. a. median b. mean c. standard deviation d. mode 22) Which of the following does not belong to the group? a. standard deviation b. range c. mean

d. variation

23) What is the mode of the following data? 11, 2, 4, 4, 5, 8, 3, 5, 4, 9, 7, 6, 9 a. 9 b. 4 c. 5 d. 6 24) What is the mean of the data in Problem 23? (Round off to the nearest hundredths) a. 5.92 b. 6.92 c. 4. 92 d. 7.92 25) What is the median of the data in Problem 23? a. 4 b. 5 c. 6 26) Using the same data as Problem 23, find the range. a. 6 b. 9 c. 8

d. 7

d. 7

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27) Find the standard deviation of the data given in Problem 23. (Round off to the nearest hundredths) a. 0.82 b. 0.92 c. 1 d. 0.72 28) If the mean of 28, x, 42, 78 and 104 is 62, then what is the mean of 128, 255, 511, 1023 and x? a. 395 b. 275 c. 355 d. 415 29) The average weight of a group of 30 friends increases by 1 kg when the weight of their football coach was added. If average weight of the group after including the weight of the football coach is 31kgs, what is the weight of their football coach in kgs? a. 31 kgs b. 61 kgs c. 60 kgs d. 62 kgs 30) If the average of 5 positive integers is 40 and the difference between the largest and the smallest of these 5 numbers is 10, what is the maximum value possible for the largest of these 5 integers? a. 50 b. 52 c. 49 d. 48 31) An example of this method of research is an in service training program to help develop new skills in facilitating class discussions. a. Historical b. Correlational c. Action d. Developmental 32) Mr. Bendals biology class had a standard deviation of 2.4 on a standardized test, while Ms. Bantugs biology had a standard deviation of 1.2 on the same test. What can be said about these two classes? a. Mr. Bendals class is more homogeneous when it comes to test scores than Ms. Bantugs. b. Ms. Bantugs class has less variability than Mr. Bendals when it comes to scores on the test. c. Ms. Bantugs class did worse on the test than Mr. Bendals. d. Mr. Bendals class performed twice as well on the test as Ms. Bantugs. 33) In normally distributed populations, the mean and median are a. the same b. always different c. possibly the same, possibly different d. insufficient information. 34) Consider the following data: 1, 7, 3, 3, 6, 4 The mean and median for this data are: a. 4 and 3 b. 4.8 and 3 c. 4 and 3 1/3 d. 4 and 3 1/2 35) A distribution of 6 scores has a median of 21. If the highest score is increased by 3 points, the median will become _______. a. 21 b. 21.5 c. 24 d. Cannot be determined without additional information. 36) If you are told a population has a mean of 25 and a standard deviation of 0, what must you conclude? a. Someone has made a mistake. b. None of the elements in the population can be 25. c. There are no elements in the population. d. All the elements in the population are 25. 37) Which of the following measures of central tendency tends to be most influenced by an extreme score? a. median b. mode c. mean d. they are all influenced equally 38) In a group of 12 scores, the largest score is increased by 36 points. What effect will this have on the mean of the scores? a. it will be increased by 12 points b. it will remain unchanged c. it will be increased by 3 points d. it will increase by 36 points 39) A percentile score of 40 indicates that a person a. answered 40% of the questions correctly on the test; b. knows 40% of the material covered by the examination; c. has earned a score equal to or better than 40 persons in his class; d. has earned a score equal to or better than 40% of the persons in his class. 40) Its value is not as accurate as the mean because it is just an ordinal statistics. a. median b. mode c. mean d. standard deviation

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