CJFS 3712 Research Knowledge Pre-test Name:______

August 24, 2016

Directions: for each of the following items, indicate your own level of knowledge using the scale below from 1 to 4:

1=Don’t Know at All 2=Know a Little 3=Know Some 4=Know a Lot

  1. What is research? 1 2 3 4
  2. Why is research important to CJ? 1 2 3 4
  3. What are four purposes of research? 1 2 3 4
  4. How do you pick a problem in which to do research? 1 2 3 4
  5. What is science and how does it influence research? 1 2 3 4
  6. What are the rules, obligations, and responsibilities to researchers? 1 2 3 4
  7. What are some research ethics special to criminal justice folks? 1 2 3 4
  8. What is the relationship between theory and research? 1 2 3 4
  9. Why is theory important? 1 2 3 4
  10. What are some ways to evaluate a theory? 1 2 3 4
  11. What are some criminal justice theories? 1 2 3 4
  1. What needs to happen in order to determine cause and effect? 1 2 3 4
  2. How do you perform a literature review? 1 2 3 4
  3. What are the general issues to research in terms of units of analysis? 1 2 3 4
  4. What are the different types of research in terms of time? 1 2 3 4
  5. What is involved in the typical research process? 1 2 3 4
  6. How do you evaluate and analyze research? 1 2 3 4
  7. What is conceptualization? 1 2 3 4
  8. What is operationalization? 1 2 3 4
  9. What are some ways to assess the way researchers measure things? 1 2 3 4
  10. What are some issues when measuring crime? 1 2 3 4
  1. When is content analysis appropriate? 1 2 3 4
  2. What are some guidelines in doing content analysis? 1 2 3 4
  3. What are some examples of secondary analysis? 1 2 3 4
  4. What are some guidelines in doing secondary analysis? 1 2 3 4
  5. Where can data be found? 1 2 3 4
  6. What impacts the collection of data? 1 2 3 4
  7. What are the essentials to selecting evidence (sampling)? 1 2 3 4
  8. When is survey research appropriate? 1 2 3 4
  9. What are some guidelines in surveying? 1 2 3 4
  10. How do questionnaires, phone surveys, and in-person surveys compare? 1 2 3 4
  11. When is field research appropriate? 1 2 3 4
  12. What are some guidelines in doing field research? 1 2 3 4
  13. How are issues of reliability and validity applied to field research? 1 2 3 4
  14. What is involved with experiments and quasi-experimental designs? 1 2 3 4
  15. What is evidence based practice? 1 2 3 4
  1. When is evaluation research and policy analysis appropriate? 1 2 3 4
  2. How is research influenced by funding and vice versa? 1 2 3 4
  3. How does research impact your future criminal justice professional career? 1 2 3 4
  4. How do you communicate research via presenting and writing? 1 2 3 4

CJFS 3712Research Contact Information

  1. What is your name and how do you pronounce it:
  1. What phone #(s) do you have/prefer me to use:
  1. What is your preferred email:
  1. What are your post-schooling plans:
  1. What are the last three books (or your favorite books) that you have read or if you have not read any books that stick out in your mind, provide something unique about yourself to help me remember you:
  1. When you think “Research” this pops in your mind:
  1. You will in December because you got a good grade, it is over, and because… :