RSMT 123 Test 4 (2025)

Researchers achieve this when the questions asked and methods used are likely to produce relevant answers.

• reliability
• accuracy
• anonymity
• validity

The degree to which an instrument in research is interpreted in the same way by all subjects being interviewed achieves:

• reliability
• confidentiality
• accuracy
• validity

The data produced in this concept of research involves large numbers of persons and has to be statistically analyzed.

• action research
• qualitative research
• quantitative research
• alternative research

The people from whom the researcher wants information are known as:

• interviewers
• participants
• target population
• samples

Those interviewed or participating in the quantitative research are known as:

• subjects
• respondents
• participants
• targets

When a sample is chosen in such a way that the findings can be applied to the entire target group that means the sample is:

• confidential
• trustworthy
• empirical
• representative

Researchers using this approach believe that people have knowledge that needs to be drawn out and reported in order to deepen understanding of a problem.

• action research
• qualitative research
• quantitative research
• alternative research

People who advocate or support this type of research prefer the people affected to conduct the research rather than having researchers come from outside to investigate a problem.

• action research
• quantitative research
• qualitative research
• mainstream research

The term in quantitative research for an entity, a factor or a characteristic that is likely to change.

• experiment
• hypothesis
• variable
• objective

An expectation or prediction about the relationship between two variables in a research study.

• research objective
• problem statement
• research topic
• research hypothesis