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| Which scale of measurement is naming or classifying, categorical, and has no notion of order, magnitude or size? |
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| Which scale of measure of a ranking where the difference between ranks is not comparable? |
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| Which scale of measure uses an arbitrary point of zero, and an example would be temperature? |
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| Which scale of measure has an absolute zero point, like weight or difference and can be used to say someone who is 200 lbs is twice as much as someone who is 100 lbs? |
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| Averages cannot be applied to which type of data? |
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| Which two scales of measure can be subjected to mathematical operations? |
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| Interval and Ratio numbers |
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| The measures are hierarchical which means? |
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| What kind of data does the mean give us? |
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| What does the mean give us? |
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| Of mean, median and mode which is the most sensitive? Why? |
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| Mean, all scores are weighted equally |
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| Of mean, median, and mode which does outliers effect? |
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| What does the median represent? |
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| the middle score (50th percentile) |
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| How do you find the median? |
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| Order scores from high to low and find the middle score, and to find the position use n+1/2 |
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| How do you find the median when there are an even number of values? |
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| find the mean between the two numbers |
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| When is median preferred? |
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| when data is skewed or not normally distributed |
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| T/F - The median is affected by outliers. |
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| What does the mode represent? |
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| T/F - The mode is easiest to find when data is ordered. |
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| T/F - There can be more than one mode. |
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| What does the skewness affect? |
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| The shape of distribution |
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| What is the range of skewness? |
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| Represents the peakedness or height of the distribution? |
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| What type of kurtosis represents a normal curve? |
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| What type of kurtosis represents a wide/shallow curve? |
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| What type of kurtosis represents a narrow/tall curve? |
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| How do you find the range? |
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| high score minus the low score |
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| Of range, variance and standard deviation which is the least stable? |
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| Of Range, Variance, and Standard Deviation which only shows two scores and not how the rest of the data is distributed? |
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| What are the 4 steps to find the Variance? |
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-Calculate mean
-Subtract the mean from each score
-Take the difference(deviation and square it)
-Add results together and divide the number of scores minus 1 |
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| How do you find the Standard Deviation? |
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| Take the square root of the variance |
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| What puts the score back into the same unit as the raw score and the mean, and is linear along the same line as the mean? |
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| What is the mean and standard deviation for a Z score? |
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Mean = 0
Standard Deviation = 1 |
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| Which is more common, Z scores or T scores? |
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| What is the Mean and Standard Deviation for T scores? |
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Mean = 50
Standard Deviation = 10 |
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| What are two components of a correlation coefficient? |
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| What are learned traits, based on abilities, and are also sport specific? |
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| What are more innate than skills? |
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| What are 4 ways of objectively measuring skills? |
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-Accuracy
-Repetitive-performance tests
-Total Body Movements
-Distance or Power tests |
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| An accuracy test is based on what, and what would be an example? |
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| Hitting a target, and an example is serve to specific location |
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| What would be a repetitive performance test and what is an example? |
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| Continuous performance, and number to times volley off wall |
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| What is a Total body movement test, and what is an example? |
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| Speed tests, and speed through dribbling course |
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| What is a distance or power test and what is an example? |
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| Generating force, and how far can you throw a softball |
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| What is subjectively assessing skills about? |
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| When subjectively assessing skills what 3 ratings are used to assess performance? |
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| Global ratings, relative rating, absolute rating |
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| What type of subjective rating assess overall performance |
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| What type of subjective rating assess performance compared to others in a group |
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| What type of subjective rating assess performance based on a fixed scale |
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| In regards to effective testing procedures what would be under pretest duties? |
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| Time, Forms, Procedures, Instructions, Absences, Make-Ups |
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| In regards to effective testing procedures what would be under testing duties? |
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| Location, Materials, Cheating, Safety |
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| In regards to effective testing procedures what would be under posttest duties? |
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| Transcription, Item Analysis, Reporting, Confidentiality |
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| What 6 steps are taken in the process of developing psychomotor tests? |
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| Characteristics, Review, Pilot Test, Reliability and Validity, Norms, Manual |
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| What represents all people with a common specific characteristic? |
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| What represents a small subset of the population? |
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| What 2 things do you do to ensure that sample characteristics are as close to the population as possible? |
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| make as large as possible, and randomly select |
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| T/F Pertaining to Confidence Intervals, it is unlikely that the sample mean will match perfectly with population mean. |
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| What gives you a range of values where you are percent? |
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| The degree to which a person's observed score fluctuates as a result of errors of measurement pertains to what? |
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| Standard Error of the measurement |
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| What is the number that tells you the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables? |
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| The direction in a Correlation Coefficient is described as what? |
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| The Strength in a Correlation Coefficient is what? |
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| Absolute value of a number |
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| If the strength is close to 1 is considered what? |
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| If the strength is close to 0 is considered what? |
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| Strength is represented as what variable? |
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| When are we confident that r is different from 0? |
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| When is there more than a 5% chance that r could be 0? |
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