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RSMT 123 Quiz #2

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Determines if the information is directly related to or applicable to the research issue, also if the information is significant, pertinent and important.
a)

relevance

b)

reliability

c)

credibility

d)

adequacy

2.
Researchers should check if a source’s information has been reviewed and verified by others to ensure:
a)

adequacy

b)

credibility

c)

truthfulness

d)

quality control

3.
This data collection strategy involves a series of the same questions to eight to ten people in a room together:
a)

structured interview

b)

focus group

c)

panel discussion

d)

survey

4.
Newspapers, books, magazines, and reports are examples of:
a)

primary sources

b)

electronic sources

c)

empirical data

d)

print sources

5.
This is one of the criteria for selection and use of data sources in which the data should address the dimensions which the researcher wants to study:
a)

adequacy

b)

truthfulness

c)

validity

d)

relevance

6.
An in-text citation provides:
a)

the details about the sources being referred to at the end of the research paper

b)

the author's name in parentheses in the beginning of the research paper

c)

acknowledgement of the source of information in the body of the research paper

d)

all the sources referred to in the study

7.
All the people the researcher can choose from because they have the information needed for a research are known as:
a)

interviewees

b)

research sample

c)

target population

d)

respondents

8.
A mainstream method of data collection in which the research asks a specific set of questions of a number of members of the target population:
a)

structured interview

b)

survey

c)

participant observation

d)

focus group

9.
In this situation, the researcher is involved in the activity with the people being studied:
a)

focus group

b)

participant observation

c)

sampling

d)

non-participant observation

10.
The year that is used in APA style citation is:
a)

when the work was written

b)

when the work was accessed by the researcher

c)

when the work was published

d)

when the work was edited

11.
The term used to describe when a research sample has the components of the target population so that it can be generalized:
a)

alternative

b)

definitive

c)

representative

d)

constructive

12.
When all the needed subjects get an equal chance to be selected in a sample, this is:
a)

probability sampling

b)

quota sampling

c)

non-probability sampling

d)

snowball sampling

13.
The method that selects respondents based on their availability or accessibility to the researcher is an example of:
a)

probability sampling

b)

cluster sampling

c)

non-probability sampling

d)

snowball sampling

14.
This section of the research paper provides a summary of information derived from books, journals, newspapers and other print sources.
a)

Introduction and Purpose

b)

Data Collection Sources

c)

Literature Review

d)

Discussion of Findings

15.
The researcher provides the details of all sources referred to in the study in the:
a)

appendix

b)

references

c)

conclusions

d)

literature review

16.
The APA citation style is used in this field:
a)

Humanities

b)

Sciences

c)

Social Sciences

d)

Engineering

17.
When the researcher gets information from someone directly, that person is a:
a)

primary source

b)

target population

c)

secondary source

d)

informant

18.
If an article is published about an issue of interest to your study and you decide to use it, that article is a:
a)

respondent

b)

primary source

c)

sample

d)

secondary source

19.

Available via the internet but still required to be valid and relevant to the research topic:

a)

primary source

b)

electronic source

c)

online source

d)

print source

20.
The subset of all the people a researcher can choose from to interview is called:
a)

target population

b)

sample

c)

empirical data

d)

interviewees

21.
Information that is gathered out in the field is known as:
a)

empirical data

b)

sample

c)

sources

d)

questionnaires

22.

Organize these options into the right categories of sources:

Categorize the following

Interviews

Observation

Case study

Survey

Newspaper article

Published report

Journal article

Book

Primary
Secondary