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Research Methods & Evidence-Based Practice Flashcards

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  1. A parking manager wants to measure customer satisfaction over time using the same respondents surveyed repeatedly. This design is called:

    Answer: Panel (longitudinal) study

    Panel studies follow the same participants over multiple time points to track changes in attitudes or behaviors.

  2. Which concept describes the minimum sample size needed to detect a statistically meaningful difference in parking occupancy between two garages?

    Answer: Statistical power

    Statistical power is the probability of correctly detecting a true effect; adequate power requires a sufficiently large sample.

  3. A city uses peer-city benchmarking to set its parking rate structure. The primary risk of this approach is:

    Answer: Local conditions may differ significantly from peer cities

    Peer benchmarking ignores local market conditions, land use mix, and demand drivers that may make comparisons inappropriate.

  4. Which qualitative data analysis technique involves identifying recurring themes from interview transcripts about parker behavior?

    Answer: Thematic coding

    Thematic coding systematically identifies, names, and organizes recurring patterns of meaning within qualitative data.

  5. A parking study finds a statistically significant result (p<0.05) but the actual difference in occupancy is only 1%. A CPP practitioner should recognize this as:

    Answer: Statistically significant but potentially not practically significant

    Statistical significance does not equal practical significance; a 1% occupancy difference may be too small to justify operational changes.

  6. Which framework best guides a parking organization in translating research evidence into operational policy decisions?

    Answer: Evidence-Based Management (EBMgt)

    Evidence-Based Management integrates the best available research, practitioner expertise, and stakeholder values into organizational decisions.

  7. A parking researcher reports a Cronbach's alpha of 0.91 for a multi-item customer satisfaction scale. This value indicates:

    Answer: High internal consistency among the scale items

    Cronbach's alpha measures internal consistency reliability; values above 0.70 are generally acceptable, and 0.91 indicates high reliability.