COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Campus

FINAL Examinations Fall-2020

Department of Management Sciences

Class/Program:____________BBA Date: _____8/1/21_________________________

Subject: __Research ______________ Instructor: ________Khuram Shafi_____________
Total Time Allowed: _________4 hrs___________ Maximum Marks: ________100________________
Student Name: Registration#: _______________________________
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Attempt all Questions

Q#1 (15)

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Explain.

i) Validity is more critical to measurement than reliability.

ii) Content validity is most difficult type of validity to determine.

iii) A valid measurement is reliable, but a reliable measurement may not be valid. Comment on the
statement.

Q#2 (10+5)

a) What are the different methods of data collection? Explain each with examples.
b) If research in the management area cannot be 100 % Scientific, why bother to do it all? Comment on
this statement. ?

Q#3 (20)

One student class project was to develop a brief self-administered questionnaire by which students might
quickly evaluate a professor. One student submitted the following instrument. Evaluate the question asked
and the format of the instrument.

Professor Evaluation Form

1. Overall, how would you rate this professor?

__________good;_________fair,________poor

2. Does this Professor:

a. How good class deliver?_________
b. Know the Subject?__________
c. Have a positive attitude toward the subject?________
d. Grade fairly?___________
e. Have sense of humor?_________
 f. Return exams promptly?_________

3. What professor’s strongest point?___________

4. What professor’s weakest point?___________
5. What kind of class does the professor teach?__________
6. Is this course required?___________
7. Would you take another course from this professor?__________

Q# 4 (20)

What is sample, sampling and sampling size, and how many kinds of sampling techniques explain it with
example? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each kind of sampling?

Q#5 (10+10+10)

a) What are some of the important reasons a research project will fail to make an adequate contribution to
the solution of management problems?
b) How the interval scale is more sophisticated than the rest of the scale? justify

c) You are curious about whether the professor and students at your school are of different political
persuasions. So, you take a sample of 20 professors and 20 students drawn randomly from each
population. You find that 10 professors say they are conservative while only 6 students claim they are
conservative. Is this statistically significant difference?

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