Confidence (0–100)
If you were given an example research study, how confident are you that you would know what research design was being used?
If you were given an example research study, how confident are you in your ability to identify at least one strength and one weakness of the study?
If you were asked to point out the main characteristics of a research study, how confident are you that you would be able to do so?
If you were told about a potential bias in a research study, how confident are you that you could come up with a solution to fix the bias?
How confident are you in your ability to explain when researchers can make cause-and-effect claims?
How confident are you in your ability to explain the importance of random assignment in a research study?
If you were given an example research study, how confident are you that you could identify at least one potential confound in that study?
If you were given an example research study, how confident are you that you could identify the independent and dependent variables in that study?
If you were given a psychological construct (ex: happiness, anxiety), how confident are you in your ability to come up with at least one way to measure that construct?
If you were given an example study, how confident are you that you could determine whether a variable is being measured or manipulated?
If you were given a psychological measure, how confident are you in your ability to come up with at least one way to test the reliability of the measure?
If you were given a psychological measure, how confident are you in your ability to tell whether the measure is valid?
Given an example correlation coefficient (ex: r = 0.5, r = -0.3), how confident are you in your ability to explain what the correlation coefficient means?
How confident are you that you can explain at least one limitation of correlational research?
Given an example of an observational study, how confident are you that you could determine what type of observation was being used?
How confident are you in your ability come up with at least one strength and one weakness of survey research?