PRETEST/POST TEST in RESEARCH

Which science process skill involves making up categories or grouping things together?

• Experimenting

• Measuring

• Classifying

• Analyzing Data

Narrowing your research topic is an important step in the research process. Which of these topics has the narrowest focus?

• fish food exposed to microwaves

• salinity

• math exam scores after various amounts of sleep

• All of these.

The first step in the research paper process is

• Evaluating the process

• Finalizing the research paper

• Writing the introduction

• Identifying the problem or question

The following are characteristics of a good hypothesis, except:

• fashionably designed

• gives insight into research questions

• is testable and measured by the proposed research

• springs logically from experiences

A predictive statement that represents the researcher’s tentative answer to the problem statement.

• Hypothesis

• Summary

• Conclusion

• Methods

Which of the following must be stated in question form?

• Hypothesis

• Main Problem

• Title

• Sub-problems

Which is the correct order of the research process?

• Background Research – Experimentation – Hypothesis – Conclusion

• Background Research –Hypothesis – Experimentation –Conclusion

• Hypothesis – Experimentation –Conclusion - Background Research

• Hypothesis – Background Research – Experimentation –Conclusion

The following are done during the phase of elaboration of proposal and research plan, except:

• selection of patients, animals, other objects used for solving the problem

• determine the purpose of study

• selection of the methods

• define the schedule of research

The aim of this phase is production of results and collection of data.

• Conceptualization

• Elaboration

• Empiric

• Analytic

An ordinal scale is:

• The simplest form of measurement

• A scale with equal intervals between adjacent numbers

• A rank-order scale of measurement

• A scale with an absolute zero point