Basics of Scientific Research Quiz

Which of the following is a tool used in quantitative research?

• Personal observation only

• Experiment and questionnaire

• Article analysis

• In-depth interviews only

Which of the following is a step in writing a literature review?

• Preparing the questionnaire

• Data analysis

• Developing a theoretical framework

• Writing results

Which section of a scientific paper explains how the study was conducted?

• Introduction

• Literature Review

• Methodology

• Abstract

Which of the following is a part of a scientific paper?

• Executive summary

• Research Methodology

• List of tables

• Researcher’s CV

Quantitative research relies on:

• Literary text analysis

• Descriptive study only

• Use of numerical data

• Qualitative method only

Research can know the Journals rank by using indexes such as:

• Excel and Word

• Web of Science and Scopus

• Facebook and LinkedIn

• Google Scholar only

In which section do we highlight the new knowledge added by the research?

• Introduction

• Literature

• Theoretical contributions

• Results

Which of the following is NOT a section in a scientific paper?

• Abstract

• Results

• Discussion

• None of the above

What is the main purpose of the abstract in a research paper?

• To review the literature

• To present detailed results

• To summarize the entire paper

• To describe statistical methods

Which of the following is the first step in conducting a literature review?

• Developing a conceptual framework

• Developing a theoretical framework

• Searching for existing literature

• Writing up the reviewed literature