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Alternative Formats and Open Questions

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

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1.

According to an instrument on the Medical Record Audit Checklist. This should have a title and three demographic items. What would these demographic items be?

a)

A. The name of the person responsible, date of audit and record number.

b)

B. The record number, date of audit and name of the person completing the audit.

c)

C. The date of audit, status and record number.

d)

D. The record number, name of the person completing the audit and date of audit.

2.

What are marketing surveys used for?

a)

A. It is used to modify or improve the product and to plan marketing strategies.

b)

B. It is used to monitor the records used by medical personnel.

c)

C. It is used to verify the product and to plan marketing strategies.

d)

D. It is used to improve and implement new marketing strategies.

3.

Who is the person in charge of developing a medical record audit checklist?

a)

A. The nursing department.

b)

B. Director of a health center.

c)

C. Ministry of Health

d)

D. Medical records supervisor.

4.

The ranking method is a popular method and practical approach to obtaining information because it allows the respondent to judge a large number of possible answers in reference to each other at the same time.

It is correct to state that: “all response options are present for simultaneous observation and consideration.”

a)

True

b)

False

5.

What are the guidelines for developing classification items?

a)

A. State Items Clearly ,Offer Enough Choices,Create Associated Categories, Give Directions.

b)

B. State Items Clearly ,Ensure Language Is Appropriate, Write Stems Unidimensionally,  Provide Directions.

c)

C. State Items Clearly , Write Stems Unidimensionally ,Create Associated Categories, Give Directions.

d)

D. State Items Clearly ,Ensure Language Is Appropriate, Write Stems Unidimensionally,  Give Directions

6.

According to the alternative response scales, choose which type of guideline the following tip belongs to. "Ask for help and have several different people read each point and then explain it to you."

a)

A. State Items Clearly

b)

B. Write Stems Unidimensionally

c)

C. Make Choices Exclusive

d)

D. Ensure Language Is Appropriate

7.

According to the alternative response scales, identify to which guideline the following text belongs. "If you do not specify the instructions and the respondent selects only one when you want him/her to check all that apply, you may lose useful information."

a)

A. Make Choices Exhaustive

b)

B. Put Choices in a Logical Order

c)

C. Ensure Language Is Appropriate

d)

D. Provide Directions

8.

What is the importance of taking into account the unidimensionality of the stem when we are writing an item?

a)

A. The instructions can become confusing and you will not get the answers you are looking for in your research.

b)

B. Which may be almost impossible to answer, because respondents will not have a correct choice for them.

c)

C. Identifying all possible response options without excluding anyone.

d)

D. None of the above answers.

9.

Read the following item collected from a leisure skills inventory:

What special hobbies do you have? If it is the case, choose the reason why it may not be an appropriate item.

a)

A. It addresses more than one attribute.

b)

B. One of the words included can be unclear for some participants.

c)

C. It is an appropriate item.

d)

D. The positively worded item will produce a positive response.

10.

Read the following item collected from the quality of work-life survey:

Please list four things that you believe will improve morale, working conditions, or client care. If it is the case, choose the reason why it may not be an appropriate item.

a)

A. It is an appropriate item.

b)

B. It addresses more than one attribute.

c)

C. The item has language that might bias responses.

d)

D. The manner the item is worded suggests it is a closed question.

11.

Read the following item collected from an employee survey:

Describe the work environment that is most conducive to your job performance. If it is the case, choose the reason why it may not be an appropriate item.

a)

A.  The negatively worded item will produce a negative response.

b)

B. The item is not concise and direct.

c)

C. It is an appropriate item.

d)

D. The unit of interest is not described.

12.

Which of the following statements indicates a feature of Open-ended questions?

a)

A. It is only allowed to answer through a closed series of alternatives.

b)

B. Are also referred to as supply items or qualitative measures.

c)

C. One or more of the options can be selected from a list of responses.

d)

D. Although an open-ended item can be used to obtain limited information.

13.

Choose the right advantages within open-ended questions.

a)

A. Useful in eliciting respondents feelings, suggestions, or explanations of events.

b)

B. It may be harder to obtain responses.

c)

C. Can be used to obtain finite, factual information.

d)

D. They tend to produce a great many diverse responses, which may be difficult to organize.

14.

Within the guidelines for constructing supply items are to pay attention to sentence length. What does this guideline refer to?

a)

A. It can be made only one concept in each question or statement.

b)

B. It mentions ensuring that you are not using terms of respondents.

c)

C. It refers to avoiding acronyms that may be common in your setting.

d)

D. Mention the possibility of constructing items that contain more than one sentence clearly and precisely.

15.

Do open-ended questions allow instrument designers more opportunity in question writing than respondents?

a)

A. Freedom to provide information.

b)

B. Freedom to collect information

c)

C. Time to answer the questions

d)

D. Ease of filling out questionnaires

16.

According to the study by Gendall, Menelaou and Brennan (1996), what kind of responses do the different items produce?

a)

A. Negative items produced negative responses, positive items had positive responses, and neutral items produced neutral responses.

b)

B. Negative items produced negative responses, positive items had positive responses, and neutral items produced negative responses.

c)

C. Negative items produced negative responses, positive items had negative responses, and neutral items produced neutral responses.

d)

D. Negative items produced positive responses, positive items had positive responses, and neutral items produced neutral responses.

17.

What is the purpose of a check- (or mark-) all-that-apply option?

a)

A. It's discriminating

b)

B. Be inclusive

c)

C. Easy to post

d)

D. Create forced choice items

18.

How information is presented from the Dichotomous Response Sets?

a)

A. It is presented in a concise, unambiguous and easy to count form.

b)

B. It is presented extensively and unambiguously.

c)

C. It is presented extensively and is not easy to account for.

d)

D. It is presented concisely and is not easy to account for.

19.

Like other element formats open elements can be used to obtain factual information.

Choose what type of content  you can evaluate with it.

a)

A. Examples of the content to analyze.

b)

B. Encoding units (by which the content will be divided).

c)

C. Options, attitudes and beliefs.

d)

D. Frequencies and percentages

20.

There are a series of steps to obtain adequate quantitative information, one of them is to specify a category system. Within this important step, two main features can be distinguished, indicate which they are:

a)

A. Those who deal with what it says (content)

b)

B. Coding units

c)

C. Those that deal with how that content is said (process).

d)

D. Category systems