PRACTICAL RESEARCH 2

1. Which of the following statements can be check by means of scientific inquiry? The accident rate of
driver education graduates is lower than the accident rate of those who have not had driver
education.

2. Which is/are characteristics of research? Empirical, methodical, replicable

3. Quantitative research is of two kinds; experimental and non-experimental. TRUE

4. Which is not a strength of research? It can get a good representation or a sample of a large group of
people.

5. One of the importance of quantitative research is its usefulness in obtaining an objective

understanding of people, places, things or events rather than to inflate meanings. You tend to inflate
something in research because of your what? Teacher’s influence

6. “Students taught first aid by programmed instruction will achieve at a higher level than those taught
first aid by the traditional method.” The independent variable in this hypothesis is: Programmed
instruction

7. Characteristics of persons or things that can assume different values are called: Variables

8. Number of cigarettes sticks a smoker can consume in a day is an example of what quantitative
variable? Discrete

9. Which of the following is not a research design in quantitative research? Content analysis

10. Designing research is thinking critically.

11. These two are the leading indicators of the occurrence of true experimental design. Randomization
and variable control

12. In an experiment, the group that does not receive the intervention is called the control group.

13. What is the function of a research title? It predicts content, catches the reader’s interest, contains
keywords that will make it easy to access a computer search.

14. What is the best way of writing your introduction? Includes a statement of the goal of the study,
sets a context for you proposed project and must capture the reader’s interest, background of your
study

15. Which of the following is a good research question? Do students with high level of self-efficacy
demonstrate more active job searching behaviors?

16. S-M-A-R-T. Specific-measurable-attainable-realistic-timebound

17. Heart of a research study. Methodology

18. A correct null hypothesis among the following research problem is: Two-thirds of the senatorial
candidates have no knowledge about law.
19. Regarding limitations, it is customary for researcher to refrain from acknowledging and
methodological limitations that may affect results.

20. The study covers the companies that comprise the PSE composite index and PSE sectoral index for
the years 1997-2005. Scope

21. Since the study exploratory in nature and qualitative method is applied so the findings cannot be
generalized. Limitation

22. What purpose do clearly stated aims serve? Aims state clearly what the research intends to
contribute and justifies the research being carried out.

23. Statements or predictions that are tested by collecting and analyzing objective evidence are called
hypotheses.

24. Cyberbullying at work is a growing threat to employee job satisfaction. Researchers want to find out
why people do this and how they feel about it. The primary purpose of the study is exploration.

25. They elicit answers to clarify or solve the research problem, which is the main problem of the
research. Research questions

26. Reasons for reviewing related literature.

- to find out the connection of your research to the current conditions or situations of the world.
- to know more about theories or concepts underlying you research and to learn from them with
respect to your own research study.
- to discover the relation of you research with previous research studies.

27. The literature review should include:

- a review or summary of the research completed prior to this study.
- literature that supports and contradicts the researcher’s position.
- an analysis and critique of research completed prior to the study.

28. A review of the literature prior to formulating research questions allows the researcher to:
- provide an up-to-date understanding of the subject, its significance and structure.
- guide the development of research questions.
- present the kinds of research methodologies used in previous studies.

29. Rules for writing literature review

- define a topic and audience
- search and re-search the literature
- take notes while reading

30. Manuscripts that follow APA style must be single-spaced.

31. This shows the organization, order and direction of your research study. It is an initial activity in your
research that shows a schematic diagram to obtain a general understanding of the research. Conceptual
framework

32. Ethical problems can arise when researching the internet because internet research has to be
covert.
33. Not ethical practice in research with humans. Requiring participants to continue until the study has
been completed.

34. You are guilty of plagiarism if you use the work of another and misrepresent it as your own.

35. Plagiarism in all of the following cases except using the information from the author’s work that is
regarded as common knowledge in the discipline.

36. A graphical presentation of your concepts or ideas on the basic structure or components of your
research as well as on the relationships of these elements with one another. Conceptual framework

37. Gives and explains the theories, principles, generalizations, and research findings, which have some
connection to your research study. Theoretical framework

38. Important things to remember in writing conceptual framework.

- familiarize yourself with the objective of the conceptual framework.
- base on the concepts of the conceptual framework on your own understanding of the elements and
of the relationships of the research features.
- see to it that all aspects of the conceptual framework are related to the objective of the research.

39. Operational definitions are encouraged in research in order to make terms used in a study as
explicit as possible.

40. An operational definition is a definition of a concept in terms of specific, empirical measures.

41. Carefully defined operational definitions (none of the above).

42. The hypothesis “Nurses’ communication of role expectations to parents will increase satisfaction
with nursing care”, is an example of directional hypothesis.

43. We talk about generating hypothesis, testing hypothesis, rejecting hypothesis.

44. Rejection of the null hypothesis is a conclusive proof that the alternative hypothesis is TRUE.

45. This is the correct term for a prediction which states the direction of an effect or relationship? One-
directional hypothesis