Baylimango National High School

Oro Extension
FIRST PERIODICAL TEST IN RESEARCH II

Name: _________________________________________________Section:_______________________ Date: ____________

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. A brief rational to justify the problem must be provided.

a. Background of the study b. Action Research c. Applied Research d. Basic Research
2. It is the basic difficulty, the issue, the area of concern, the circumstances which exist, then, how they ought to be
a. Ethnography b. Statement of the Problem c. Applied Research d. Basic Research
3. Ms. Turner is thinking about changing her instructional approach to a more mastery-learning orientation. She is interested in knowing more
about this topic as well as its effectiveness when working with elementary school students. On which source should she rely for such
information?
a. Intuition b. Tradition c. Research d. Personal Experience
4. These are the specific questions which are to be answered in the study.
a. exploration b. evaluation c. Research questions d. scientific and disciplined inquiry
5. Which of the following purposes is most aligned with a quantitative approach?
a. Comparing test results across groups to understand the effects of a particular instructional approach.
b. Developing a theory grounded in the beliefs of the group being studied.
c. Understanding the shared beliefs and practices of teachers in a school.
d. Understanding historical perspective for an educational topic.
6. Which of the following statements is most aligned with a researcher using qualitative methods?
a. Communicating the results in a formal, highly structured report using technical language.
b. Using a structured, fixed design in which a few variables are manipulated or controlled.
c. Collecting data through interviews and observations.
d. Investigating a formal research hypothesis.
7. Which of the following is most aligned with a researcher using quantitative methods?
a. Studying many variables in the context in which they naturally occur.
b. Studying a large number of subjects as a detached, objective observer.
c. Using a research design that changes as narrative data is collected and analyzed.
d. Communicating the results of the study in a loosely structured report that uses informal language.
8. An individual or group that you target to benefit from your proposal.
a. Beneficiary
b. Respondent
c. Researcher
d. Statistician
9. A statement about an area of concern, a condition to be improved.
a. Research Problem
b. Background of the Study
c. Review of Related Literature
d. Data Analysis
10. Asking questions to find answers.
a. Inquiry b. external criticism c. internal validity d. external validity
11. Investigating problems to find solutions
a. Inquiry b. external criticism c. research d. external validity
12. It is the process of conducting research using surveys that are sent to survey respondent.
a. Survey Research b. Experimental Research c. Descriptive Research d. Evaluation Research
13. Which of the following is most likely to be a primary source?
a. a poem expressing a miner's feelings c. a film about battlefield maneuvers in the Civil War
b. a miner's letter home during the Gold Rush d. a book about educational theory in the early 1990s
14. Tests for the relationships between two variables.
a. Survey Research b. Correlational Research c. Descriptive Research d. Evaluation Research
15. This is an experiment where the researcher manipulates one variable, and control/randomizes the rest of the variables.
a. Survey Research b. Correlational Research c. Descriptive Research d. Experimental Research
16. Which is NOT an advantage of Descriptive Research?
a. Effective to analyse non-quantified topics and issues
b. The opportunity to integrate the qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection
c. The possibility to observe the phenomenon in a completely natural and unchanged natural environment
d. Research results may reflect certain level of bias due to the absence of statistical tests
17. Which is NOT a characteristic of a good research title?
a. A title should give readers information about the contents of the research and is preferable to one that is vague or general.
b. Titles do not need to be stuffy or dull but they should generally give readers some idea at the outset of what the research paper
will contain.
c. Straightforward title
d. The title is underlined.
18. Citations are used within the body of your paper to indicate information that has come from another source. Select the answer that best
describes which information must always be cited within the text.
a. Written or media content that you have paraphrased or summarized
 b. Quotations from a video, blog, website, or journal article
c. Personal opinions and ideas written in your own words
d. Quotations, paraphrased and summarized content
19. Citations: At the End of a Sentence for Paraphrased/Summarized Content.Select the sample below that best demonstrates how to
incorporate a citation directly within a sentence for information that has been summarized or paraphrased.
a. In examining the philosophies of education, the challenges associated with... (Carter & Glick).
b. Adult students are frequently motivated to return to school... (Alex, Marks, & Jones, 2005).
c. After returning from war (Smith, Peters & Ali, 2007), disabled veterans typically face.
d. Masters indicated there are no more strategies to be considered for... (1997).
20. Reference Sample: Book with two authors. Below is a reference page listing for a book with two authors. How should the title of the book
be formatted?
Giorgis, C., & Glazer, J. I. (2009). Literature for young children: Supporting emergent literacy, ages 0 - 8 (6th ed). Boston, MA:
Pearson Education.
a. The book title should be in quotations c. The book title should be listed without special formatting
b. The book title should be in italics d. The book title should be bolded.
21. Which of the following is cited correctly in APA style?
a. H. M. Dietel and P. J. Dietel(C How to Program) define pointers as "variables that contain as their values addresses of other
variables" (p. 294).
b. H. M. Dietel and P. J. Dietel (1999) define pointers as "variables that contain as their values addresses of other variables" (p.
294).
c. H. M. Dietel and P. J. Dietel define pointers as "variables that contain as their values addresses of other variables" (1999, p.
294).
d. None of the above
22. In APA style, a long quotation which is more than 40 words long needs
a. to be enclosed in double quotation marks
b. to be single-spaced and indented half an inch
c. to be double-spaced, indented half an inch, and not enclosed in quotation marks
d. to be single-spaced, indented half an inch, and enclosed in single quotation marks
23. Indicate which is the correct APA reference for the following source:
Title: Role of Personality in Determining Value Judgements Volume No.: 75
Authors: Maxine Renee Shaw, Jonathan L. Speaks, Kathleen M. Neal Date Published: 1999
Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology Page Numbers: 558-577

a. Role of Personality in Determining Value Judgements in Journal of Applied Psychology. Maxine Renee Shaw, Jonathan L.
Speaks, Kathleen M. Neal (1999), 75, p. 558-577.
b. Role of Personality in Determining Value Judgements, in Journal of Applied Science, 75, by M.R. Shaw, J.L. Speaks, & K.M.
Neal (1999), 558-577.
c. M.R. Shaw, J.L. Speaks, & K.M. Neal (1999). Role of Personality in Determining Value Judgements, Journal of Applied
Psychology, 75, p. 558-577.
d. Shaw, M.R., Speaks J.L., & Neal, K.M. (1999). Role of personality in determining value judgements. Journal of Applied
Psychology, 75, 558-577.
24. When integrating the material from secondary sources into their own writing, writers must be especially careful that
a. their readers can clearly see where cited material begins and ends
b. the material from a source flows seamlessly into their own writing
c. they do not interrupt the flow of the writing with citations
d. their voices combine with the voice of the source
25. The following example of an APA in-text citation is incorrectly formatted, because _______.
(Giugovaz 2008 p. 2)

a. the citation is missing commas to separate the elements c. the citation is missing the title of the work
b. the citation is missing the author’s first name d. None of the above.

II. A. IDENTIFICATION: Identify whether the following statements can be classified as research or problem-solving. Write R if it pertains to
RESEARCH and PS if it is PROBLEM-SOLVING. Write your answer at the space provided.

______26. There may not be a problem to be solved, only to satisfy a query.

______27. It is concerned with recurrent phenomena and wide application.
______28. The research problem is not necessarily defined specifically.
______29. It is conducted to make a contribution to general knowledge.
______30. Once the problem is solved, that is the end of it.
______31. It is concerned with a specific problem.
______32. There is always a problem to be solved.
______33. A problem to be solved is less rigorous.
______34. It does not always involve research.
______35. It is broader in scope.

B. Identify the terms being asked.

 ___________________36. This refers to the questionnaire or data gathering tool to be constructed, validated and administered.
___________________37. This classification of research according to the level of investigation studies the effects of the variables on each other
___________________38. This section indicates how the data will be analyzed and reported.
___________________39. Systematic process of searching the facts and using the information to synthesize, analyze and interpret the data
___________________40. This involves determining which group of people will you study, who, specifically, these people are, and how many
of them you will need to involve.

III. TRUE OR FALSE. Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if the statement is incorrect. Write your answer in the space
provided. Erasures are not allowed

______41. The SCOPE describes the coverage of the study

______42. References must be given for sources used in the paper only when the sources are quoted, not when they are paraphrased.
______43. In citations, the materials must are not recent.
______44. A primary source is one prepared by an individual who was a participant in, or a direct witness to, the event that is being
described.
______45. A title should give readers information about the contents of the research and is preferable to one that is vague or general.
______46. When conducting survey research it is important that the people questioned are sampled systematically.
______47. A secondary source is a document prepared by an individual who was not a direct witness to an event, but who obtained his or her
description of the event from someone else.
______48. Underlining may be substituted for italics to distinguish or emphasize words, to indicate foreign words or to identify words being
defined.
______49. As long as you give a complete citation for all of your sources at the end of your paper, it is not necessary to attribute your sources
in the body of the paper.
______50. Both inquiry and research encourage you to formulate questions to direct you to exact information you want to discover about the
object of your curiosity.