STA630 Research Methods MCQs VUABID
STA630 Research Methods MCQs VUABID
STA630 Research Methods MCQs VUABID
A. Planning
C. Lot of rewriting
C. Knowledge disaccumulates
5- A theoretical framework
D. A research proposal is just like a research report and written before the research
project
A. Descriptive research
B. Exploratory research
C. Applied research
D. Explanatory research
A. Primary data
B. Secondary data
C. Qualitative data
9- After identifying the important variables and establishing the logical reasoning in theoretical
framework, the next step in the research process is
A. To conduct surveys
D. Both A & B
1. Mall interviews
2. Mall intercept interviews
3. Brief interviews
4. None of the given options
B. WATS lines provided by long distance telephone service at fixed rates. In this
regard, WATS is the abbreviation of:
C. A list of questions which is handed over to the respondent, who reads the
questions and records the answers himself is known as the:
1. Interview schedule
2. Questionnaire
3. Interview guide
4. All of the given options
D. One of the most critical stages in the survey research process is:
1. Research design
2. Questionnaire design
3. Interview design
4. Survey design
1. Response rate
2. Participation rate
3. Inflation rate
4. None of the given options
G. To obtain the freest opinion of the respondent, when we ask general question
before a specific question then this procedure is called as the:
1. Research technique
2. Qualitative technique
3. Funnel technique
4. Quantitative technique
1. Pilot testing
2. Pre-testing
3. Lab experiments
4. Both A & B
1. Self-administered questionnaires
2. Office assistant
3. Manager
4. None of the given options
A. Intensity
B. Frequency
C. Direction
D. Space
A. Primary data
B. Secondary data
C. Qualitative data
D. Quantitative data
A. Qualitative research
B. Quantitative research
C. Descriptive research
D. Applied research
A. Qualitative research
B. Quantitative research
C. Descriptive research
D. Applied research
A. Field research
B. Descriptive research
C. Basic research
D. Applied research
7. _________interview is always with one respondent alone:
A. Survey interview
B. Field interview
C. Telephone interview
D. Electronic interview
A. Historical research
B. Basic research
C. Applied research
D. Action research
A. Primary sources
B. Secondary sources
C. Internal sources
D. External sources
A. Case study
B. Content analysis
C. Field research
D. None of the given options
1. Which one of the following sets is the measure of central tendency?
a. Mean, standard deviation, mode
b. Mean, median, standard deviation
c. Arithmetic mean, median, mode
d. Standard deviation, internal validity, mode
5. How many times the students appear in the research class is the example of
_________.
a. Intensity
b. Space
c. Frequency
d. Direction
9. “Teacher should create a friendly environment in the classroom” this is the type of
.
a. Leading question
b. Loaded question
c. Double Barreled
d. Burdensome question
10. Departmental stores selected to test a new merchandising display system is the
example of .
a. Quota sampling
b. Convenience sampling
c. Judgmental sampling
d. Purposive sampling
1. Discrete variable is also called……….
A. Categorical variable
B. Discontinuous variable
C. Both A & B
D. None of the above
A. Descriptive Hypothesis
B. Directional Hypothesis
C. Relational Hypothesis
D. All of the above
3. ‘Science’ refers to……….
A. Deterministic
B. Rationalism
C. Empirical
D. Abstraction
A. Variables
B. Hypothesis
C. Concept
D. Theory
A. Field research
B. Descriptive research
C. Basic research
D. Applied research
A. Mall interviews
B. Mall intercept interviews
C. Brief interviews
D. None of the given options
3. ……… is used to obtain the freest opinion of the respondent, by asking general
question before a specific question.
A. Research technique
B. Qualitative technique
C. Funnel technique
D. Quantitative technique
4. In, ……… the interviewer and members jointly control the pace and direction of the
interview.
A. Field interview
B. Telephonic interview
C. Both A and B
D. None of the given options
A. Pretest
B. Posttest
C. Matching
D. Experiment
The independent variable is;
The variable manipulated in order to observe its effects
The variable that is measured
The free spirited variable
A confounding variable
If a researcher was studying the use of various instructional approaches to the "multiple
intelligences" of his students, he is likely to be conducting which type of research?
Basic
Applied
Evaluation
Grounded theory
Research may differ along a series of dimensions. Which of the following may be applied to this
statement?
The type of data collected.
The data-collection technique.
The level of manipulation used to elicit data collection.
Which of the following is least likely to occur as an ethical problem with e-research?
People are not likely to be able to stop once they have begun participating.
Informed consent cannot be completely monitored.
Debriefing could be avoided.
Privacy could be invaded.
All of the given options
Which of the following is the least obtrusive and most accurate method for recording data in an
interview?
Note taking
Videotaping
Audio taping
Writing notes after the interview
If a researcher was studying the use of various instructional approaches to the "multiple
intelligences" of his students, he is likely to be conducting which type of research?
Basic
Applied
Evaluation
Grounded theory
Ms. Roshi has been coordinating the Annual Festival at her school for the last several years. She
wants to be sure the students and parents enjoy the festival again this year. On which source is
she LEAST likely to rely when making decisions about what to do?
Select correct option:
Tradition
Personal experience
Research
Expert opinion
A review that only demonstrates familiarity with an area is rarely published but it often is part of
an educational program is which type of review?
Integrative reviews
Theoretical reviews
Self-study reviews
Historical reviews
A researcher developed a measure of shyness and is now asking whether this measure does in
fact measure a person's true state of shyness. This is a question of:
Reactivity
Construct validity
Reliability
Content validity
When you are confident that the experimental manipulation produced the changes you measured
in the dependent variable, your study probably has good ________ validity.
Construct
Internal
External
Causal
If a researcher is studying the effect of using laptops in his classroom to ascertain their merit and
worth, he is likely conducting which type of research?
Select correct option:
Basic
Applied
Evaluation
Experimental
When doing research involving deception with human subjects, researchers have an obligation to
do which of the following?
Tell subjects the truth about the study’s purpose and methods after the study is completed
Prevent mental and physical harm to subjects
Let subjects withdraw from the study at any time if they don’t want to keep participating
All of the given options
A literature review requires;
planning
clear writing
good writing
All of the given option
A measure has high internal consistency reliability when:
Procedures determining what two issues are rarely used in quantitative research?
Objectivity and subjectivity
Reliability and validity
Accessibility and replicability
Quality and quantity
Which of the following true about the relationship between theory building and data collection?
When studies come out as expected, inductive support for the theory is gained.
If an experiment fails, discarding the experiment is an example of affirming the
consequent.
When a hypothesis is not supported, virtually nothing has been learned about the theory.
A good theory will be inclusive enough to explain every possible research outcome.
Temperature is measured from which scale?
• Nominal
• Ordinal
• Interval
• All the given options.
Which of the following effect in internal validity occurs when test units with extreme scores
move closer to the average score during the course of the experiment?
1. Statistical Regression
2. Selection bias
3. Maturation
4. Instrumentation
Which of the following are legitimate frameworks for setting out a literature review?
(1)Constructing interextual coherence (2) Deconstruction of textual coherence
(3) Problematizing the situation (4) Resolving the discovered problems?
• 1 &2
• 2&3
• 1&3
• 2&4
If researcher was studying the use of various instructional approaches to the “multiple
intelligence” of his students, he is likely to be conducting which of the following type of
research?
1. Basic
2. Evaluation
3. Applied
4. Ground theory