Research-A Review

What do you call the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions?

• a. scientific method

• b. survey

• c. data collection

• d. research

What do you call an educated guess, or hypothesis, is an attempt to explain a phenomena?

• a. experiment

• b. trial and error

• c. serendipity

• d. hypothesis

The process of experimentation is a proof of:

• experiments

• scientific procedures

• data analysis

• result interpretation

What do you call the process of making inferences involves concrete data to rule out opinions?

• synthesis

• analysis

• conclusion

• observation

This refers to the way in which the phenomena being studied is defined, classified, and categorized. The goal of describing is to provide essential information:

• a. analysis

• b. description

• c. observation

• d. prediction

These are constructs that can be understood differently because of their differences in values. How do you call them?

• a. variables

• b. experiments

• c. hypotheses

• d. surveys

These are treatments or conditions that produce a varied response or effect:

• a. dependent variable

• b. continuous variables

• c. independent variables

• d. direct variables

They are the responses or effects that result from the treatment or conditions employed. How do you call them?

• a. qualitative variables

• b. quantitative variables

• c. dependent variables

• d. independent variables

What scientific approach aims to provide description of characteristics, kind and quality of a subject, while interpreting and attempting to understand an event?

• a. quantitative approach

• b. qualitative approach

• c. mixed methods

• d. quasi experiment

The following are characteristics of a quantitative research except:

• a. The data are usually gathered using more structured research instruments.

• b. The results are based on larger sample sizes that are representative of the population.

• c. It provides descriptions about the real experience of the people in the situation being studied.

• d. The project can be used to generalize concepts more widely, predict future results, or investigate causal relationships.