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Topic 6. Research Strategy Design

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Correlational studies are used primarily to

a)

examine relationships among variables.

b)

examine if differences between groups exist.

c)

determine causal relationships.

d)

determine if experimental treatments work.

2.

Which of the following is true about research design?

a)

Research design should be the first consideration in a research project.

b)

Research design should be selected after thoroughly considering the problem and research objectives.

c)

Research design should be selected during the initial meeting with a client.

d)

Research designs should be made after data collection.

3.

Which of the following is the best description of research design?

a)

set of advance decisions that makes up the master plan specifying the methods and procedures for collecting and analyzing the needed information

b)

the specific pieces of information are necessary to solve the problem at hand

c)

set of advance decisions that are made after the data have been collected in order to determine how the data will be analyzed

4.

A panel of respondents is often used in which type of study?

a)

longitudinal

b)

cross-sectional

c)

sample surveys

d)

case analysis

5.

What type of descriptive research study measures a situation at only one point in time?

a)

cross-sectional studies

b)

longitudinal studies

c)

ʺPoint in Timeʺ studies

d)

ʺOne Point in Timeʺ studies

6.

What type of experimental design corresponds to the following description: the administrators from a school are unwilling to allow the random selection of students for experimental samples.

a)

Pre-experimental Research Design

b)

Quasi-experimental Research Design

c)

True Experimental Research Design

7.

Experimental research designs involve collecting ________________ and performing statistical analysis on them during research.

a)

Variables

b)

Quantitative Data

c)

Qualitative Data

d)

Information

8.

For what is basically needed the pre-experimental research?

a)

To clarify the respondent group

b)

To understand how to design and an investigative experiment

c)

To understand it iscost-effective or not

d)

To define experiment groups

9.

What is the main difference between True Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research Design?

a)

The location of the experiment

b)

The time of the experiment

c)

No differences, they are almost the same

d)

Distribution of group members

10.

Experiment has at least two meanings: _____ and _________.

(a)