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Methodology of Educational Research
Methodology of Educational Research
Research" – Part 1
1. What does randomization ensure in experimental research?
(a) Uniformity of the groups
(b) df is greater than I, but more than 20 per cent of frequencies are smaller than S
(d) They do make certain assumptions, but these are fewer and less stringent.
(b) Practical value of the findings to educationists, parents and social workers,
etc.
(c) Preparing a complete list of the units of a finite population for drawing a
sample.
(b) Searching for the new facts and principles underlying the process of
education
(d) It enables them to make best possible judgments about what should be taught
and how.
14. What does view of related research and literature not do?
(a) Provide the researcher with sufficient useful knowledge
(d) Make the researcher aware of the pitfalls that plagued his predecessors.
15. Who said that “the problem is a proposed question for solution”?
(a) John C. Torensand
16. What type of study means comparison of likeness and differences among
phenomena to find out factors which seem to accompany or contribute to the
occurrence of certain events?
(a) A correlational study
(d) Avoiding questions which the subjects will not answer or will not answer truthfully.
(b) Checking the responses which the questionnaire elicits against an external criterion.
(b) T.A.T.
(b) Emotions
(b) Truths
(c) Observation
(b) Quantitative
(b) Discrete
(c) Both
(b) Stability
(c) Flexibility
(c) Elites
31. High intelligence combined with high motivation raises the levels of academic
achievement and high intelligence combined with low motivation lowers
academic achievement, this indicates that
(a) Intelligence is more important a factor of achievement.
32. Which of the following does not determine the size of an adequate sample?
(a) The nature of the population
33. Which of the following does not belong to the group of the other three?
(a) Logical validity
(c) They list items relating to the factor being appraised and request subjects to indicate
preferences or check items that describe their typical behaviour.
(d) The responses obtained on the inventories are evaluated to obtain descriptions of
certain fundamental predic-positions of the subjects.
(b) Leadership
(c) Interviews
(d) Observations.
(c) A combination of three key words each pointing out to a separate principle of
designing experimental research
(b) Reliability
(c) Usability
40. “In general words questionnaire refers to a device for securing answers to
questions by using a form which the respondent fills in himself’. Who has defined
questionnaire in these words?
(a) Goode and Hatt
(b) Interview
(c) Observation
(d) Sociometry.
(b) Interview
(c) Observation
(d) Sociometry.
43. Which is the best technique of measuring the internal feelings of a student?
(a) Questionnaire
(b) Interview
(d) Sociometry.
(b) Interview
(c) Observation
(d) Sociometry.
(b) Selection
(c) Randomization
(d) Matching.
46. What determines whether a researcher should use .05 or .01 level of
significance for testing the hypothesis?
(a) How important are the findings
(b) How much risk is involved in incorrect finding
47. What determines the choice of statistical test to be used in the analysis of the
data of the quantitative research?
(a) The power of test
(d) Single unit done intensively to bring out the processes and dynamics
underlying its problems and functioning.
(b) Comparing the current status of these with some available standards and making
suggestions for improving the status
(c) Studying a small sample and drawing inferences about the larger population
(c) It is not possible in this research to assign the subjects to the treatment groups
randomly
(d) It provides support for any number of different and sometimes contradictory
hypothesis.
55. Which of the following statements is most correct about the difference
between Applied and Action Research?
(a) While applied research adds to an organized body of scientific knowledge, action
research does not do that
(b) While the findings of applied research have practical implications for educational
practices, action research is not concerned with that
(c) While applied research and action research both are undertaken to solve
immediate practical problems, in action research the researcher is the same
person as the practitioner who will use the findings of the research
(d) The difference between them is that of nomenclature only; otherwise they are the
same.
(b) The fact that it is one of the most valid measures of education
(c) The fact that it allows one to determine the degree or strength of the associa-
tion between two variables
(c) t-test
(c) Interviews
(b) A checklist,
(c) A questionnaire,
(d) An opinionnaire.
(c) Getting the full meaning out of the author’s ideas and paraphrasing them in his own
language.
69. On the spot research aimed at the solution of an immediate problem is called
(a) Survey research.
71. Which of the following is not relevant to analysis of the research problem?
(a) Isolating the variables that are involved in the problem and clarifying their
relationships
(d) Proposing various relevant explanations (hypothesis) for the cause of the difficulty.
74. Which of the following is the least helpful to locating and analyzing problems?
(a) Exploring the literature in an area of interest
75. To find out the relationship between intelligence and achievement after
eliminating the effect of motivation, an investigator should use
(a) R1.23.
(b) r123
(c) rxy
(d) rbis.
76. The correlation between two variables in which the effect of some other
variable or variables on their relationship is controlled is called
(a) Contingency coefficient of correlation.
77. What is the nature of the statement that experimental genealizations are
statistical inferences; they can only attain a degee of probability somewhere
along a continuum between truth and falsity?
(a) Not wholly true
(b) They can be used in situations where parametric tests are applicable
(c) They yield statements of exact probabilities irrespective of the shape of the
population distribution
80. Some activities described as ‘research’ like some M.Ed, and Ph.D
dissertations should not be so designated because
(a) They just describe something and do not explain anything.
(b) They just compile information which is already available and hence, do not add to
existing knowledge.
(d) The research they conduct cannot be classified into any standard type of research.
(b) Research may involve venturing into areas of thought about which little is known
(b) Should be considered a research of value because the test so developed can
be used later by others
(c) Should not be considered a research because it does not test any hypothesis.
(d) Should be considered a valuable piece of research because a lot of labour and
energy have gone into it.
(b) Fact-finding
(c) Control
(d) Prediction.
(c) Serve as a goal providing explanation for specific phenomena with maximal
probability and exactitude.
(b) Identifying the facts needed to be considered in the context of the research problem.
88. Who have given the following suggestions about the analysis of data?
(i) Thinking over data through Meaning Table.
94. In t-test when separate samples are selected in two groups in one population
or in two populations, the test used is
(a) Two-tailed test.
95. When the achievement and degeneration of one group is to be tested in t-test,
the test used is
(a) Two-tailed test.
(b) A Questionnaire,
(c) A Schedule.
(d) A Test.