Research Methodology Quiz 10° A

Which are 3 sources of ideas for the scientific research?

• Personal Experiences

• Research/ conversations

• Discoveries

• All of them

Why can we say that research can correct current mistakes removing existing misconceptions? what is the meaning of this?

• Because the research is made of hundred or thousands of average individuals

• Because the new information obtained could confirm the mistake.

• Because with new information obtained from scientific research, we can change existing information thas was not entirely correct

• Because the application of scientific method help us to solve problems

Which is the best definition for research?

• Is the way we can obtain conclusions of one problem.

• Is an honest method of studying developed over hundreds of years with specific normal steps

• Defined as a method for studing problems whose solutions are enterely from beliefs and conclusions.

• Is considered to be formal, systematic intensive process of carrying on the scientific method of analysis. It involves a systematic structure of investigation, resulting in formal record of procedures and a report of results or concusions

The purpose of the research is to (a)   answers to questions through the scientific procedure.

Select 2 characteristics of the research:

• Is not based upon observable experience or empirical evidences

• Involves gathering new data from primary or first-hand sources or using existing data for a new purpose

• Is not recorded and collected

• Research involves the quest for answers to un-solved problems

Why the scientific knowledge cannot make moral or aesthetic decisions?

The types of research on the basis of nature of information are _________ and​ __________ .

• qualitative
• quantitative
• Basic
• Experimental

Explain with your own words qualitative research and its difference from quantitative research.

This type of knowledge is formal and method driven

• Scientific
• Normal

• Common

• Useful

This type of knowledge is tested and self-correcting

• scientific
• Normal

• Common

• Useful