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WorksheetsResearch Methodology Quiz
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Action-oriented research is termed as.........?
Applied research
Basic research
Exploratory research
Conclusive research
...... is used to gain a deeper understanding of the issue or problem that is troubling the decision maker.
Conclusive research
Exploratory research
Descriptive research
Causal research
.........is the first and the most critical step of the research journey.
Formulating the research hypothesis
The management dilemma
Defining the research problem
Developing the research proposal
The area of ___________is vast and includes asset pricing, corporate finance and capital markets, market based accounting, modeling and forecasting in volatility, risk etc.
Personnel and Human resource management
Financial and Accounting research
Productions and Operations management
Marketing
The formulated framework which is explained verbally is called a______?
Verbal model
Graphical model
Mathematical model
Theoretical model
Any variable that can be stated as influencing or impacting the dependent variable is referred to as
Dependent variable
Moderating variables
Independent variable
Extraneous variables
________is a statement about the magnitude, trend or behaviour of a population under study.
Relational hypothesis
Descriptive hypothesis
Quantitative hypothesis
Qualitative hypothesis
A formal document that presents the research objectives, design of achieving these objectives and the expected outcomes/deliverables of the study is a__________?
Research proposal
Research hypothesis
Research variables
Research objectives
___________is the working section of the proposal as it indicates the logical and systematic approach intended to be followed to achieve the listed objectives.
Academic research
Business research
Research design
Scheduling the research
________ are the simplest and most loosely structured research designs?
Exploratory designs
Descriptive Research designs
Experimental designs
Longitudinal studies
In ________designs, the researcher can randomly assign test units and treatments to an experimental group.
Pre-experimental
True experimental
Quasi-experimental
Statistical
______ design is used when a researcher is investigating the effect of one independent variable on the dependent variable?
Randomized block
Completely randomized
Factorial design
True experimental
________is conducted using focus group discussion, secondary data, analysis of case study and expert opinion survey?
Descriptive research
Experimental research
Statistical design
Exploratory research
In comparison to primary data, secondary data can be collected?
Rapidly and easily
At a relatively low cost
In a short time
All of the above
_______refer users to the articles, research papers, abstracts, other printed news contained in other sources and are called bibliographic databases?
Source databases
Online databases
CD-ROM databases
Reference databases
________is a highly versatile and dynamic method of collecting primary data from a representative group of respondents and involves a moderator who steers the discussion on the topic under study?
Observation method
Personal Interview method
Focus group discussion
Structured interviews
Which of the following is not a type of personal interview?
Low structured
Unstructured
Semi-structured
Structured
A focus group discussion where there are two moderators, one being responsible for the managing the group discussion and the other trying to optimize group performance, is called a_______?
Two-way focus group
Fencing -moderator group
Dual-moderator group
Respondent-moderator group
________is the lowest level of measurement.
Ordinal scale
Interval scale
Nominal scale
Ratio scale
In the ________ scale, there is only one item to measure a given construct.
Single item
Multiple items
Comparative
Non-comparative
In the ______ scaling, respondents are presented with several objects simultaneously and asked to order or rank them according to some criterion?
Q-sort technique
Paired comparison
Rank Order
Constant sum rating
__________ is concerned with consistency, accuracy and predictability of the scale.
Validity
Predictive validity
Sensitivity
Reliability
______kind of structured questionnaire is easy to administer and is frequently used by all management researchers.
Formalized and concealed
Formalized and unconcealed
Non-formalized and unconcealed
Non-formalized and concealed
The first step in the questionnaire design process is _______?
Convert the research objectives into information areas
Method of administration
Content of the questionnaire
Determining the type of questions
________questions are restrictive alternatives and provide the respondents only with two answers?
Dichotomous
Open-ended
Multiple-choice
Scales
The reason for the respondent's inability to answer the questions in a questionnaire could be because of:?
The person might not have the required information
The person might not remember the answer
The person might not be able to articulate the answer
All of the above
The process of testing and administering the designed instrument on a small group of people from the population under study in order to refine it and arrive at the final version is called?
Primary testing
Draft testing
Pilot testing
Field testing
Carrying out an organised inquiry is called _____?
Research
Survey
Analysis
Methodology
Logical reasoning process used in research is important to ?
Draw inferences
Make studies
Derive problem statements
Frame hypothesis
Which of the following is not a probability sampling design?
Systematic sampling
Simple random sampling
Snowball sampling
Stratified random sampling
Requesting people to volunteer to test products is an example of?
Quota sampling
Judgmental sampling
Random sampling
Convenience sampling
The process of going back to the respondent to get the answers to inconsistencies or nonresponsive is called.?
Allocating missing values
Backtracking
Plug value
Discarding unsatisfactory responses
The process of identifying and denoting a numeral to the responses given by the respondent is called _____?
Coding
Tabulating
Field validation
Data analysis
________involves an orderly arrangement of data into an array that is suitable for statistical analysis and usually is an orderly arrangement of rows and columns.?
Data analysis
Cumulative frequencies
Stem and leaf display
Tabulation of data
For which type of measurement, the coefficient of variation can be computed?
Nominal scale
Ordinal scale
Interval scale
Ratio scale
The median can be computed for: ?
Ordinal, interval or nominal scale data
Ratio, ordinal and nominal scale data
Ratio, interval or ordinal scale data
Ratio, interval or nominal scale data
measures the degree of association between two variables and could be positive, negative or zero?
Variance
Cross tabulation
Simple correlation
Coefficient of variation
Research really begins when the researcher experiences_______ ?
Turmoil
Difficulty
Confusion
Emotions
Observable experience in research is also called as ?
Generalization
Unknown phenomena
Causal experience
Empirical evidence
"The assignment of numbers to represent properties" is a definition related to - ?
Research
Hypothesis
Measurement
Scales
From which of these a research problem could be identified?
Daily experiences
Advertisements
Experiments
Imagination
This is used in agricultural research.
RB design
Factorial design
LS design
CR design
In analysis of variance, which of the following test statistics is used to compare the variance between the samples and the variance within the sample?
T statistic
F statistic
Z statistic
Chi-square statistic
_______are written for the purpose of recording the process carried out in terms of scope and framework of the study, the methodology followed and instrument designed?
Survey reports
Technical reports
Business reports
Basic reports
The in the Preliminary Section of the Research Report should be crisp and indicative of the nature of the project?
Letter of transmittal
Title
Letter of authorization
Table of contents
The methodology of research section includes all the following except:?
Sampling design
Research framework or design
Data collection methods
Glossary of terms
In the _______, along with the details of the cited work, brief information about the nature of information sought from the article/paper is also given?
Selected bibliography
Annotated bibliography
Complete bibliography
Glossary of terms
Once the researcher has clearly communicated the purpose, the nature and likely outcome of the study, it is advisable to make a mutual written or unwritten____?
Coercion
Sensitivity
Contract
Experimentation
Stability means_____?
Accurate
Broad
Consistency
Depth
The editing process is carried out at two levels, the first of these is __________and the second is________?
Field editing, Coding
Central editing, Tabulation
Classification, Tabulation
Field editing, Central editing
