Research methodology

What is the Purposes of Research?

• improves practice

• increase in selfishness

• adds to our knowledge

• informs policy debates

Basic research is ...........

• Practical and descriptive

• Client-driven

• Expands current knowledge

• Advancement of technology

The research design is ......................

• refers to the overall strategy that you choose to integrate the different components of the study in a coherent and logical way

• underlying theory and analysis of how research does or should proceed

• ensuring you will effectively address the research problem

• it constitutes the blueprint for the collection, measurement, and analysis of data

Research design is:

• The procedures that will be used to collect data

• Overall structure of the research

• Predicts future phenomena

• Less associated with technology

A hypothesis is a

• Law

• Canon

• postulate

• supposition

Tags

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.3.3B

 The null hypothesis in a t‑test of means of two independent samples would be :

• x_1=x_2

• \mu _1=\mu _2

• \sigma _1=\sigma _2

• All the above

The simplest form of secondary data research is:

• fact finding

• data conversion

• model building.

• input management.

A company's Human Resources department distributes a survey which asks employees to rate their current benefits as "excellent," "good," "fair," or "poor." This is an example of a(n):

• nominal scale

• interval scale.

• ratio scale.

• ordinal scale.

What type of question is the following:

I’m going to show you a sample magazine advertisement. What does this ad mean to you?

• Double-barreled

• Fixed-alternative

• Open-ended

• Leading

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

A researcher divides the population of product users into three groups based on degree of use. If the researcher then draws a random sample from each user group independently, the researcher has created a ____ sample.

• simple random

• stratified

• judgment

• quota

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3