IS Design project 1

A research process which involves deciding on audiences, structuring the report in a format
acceptable to these audiences, and then writing the report in a manner that is sensitive to all
readers. It also involves assessing the quality of a study.
Reporting and evaluating research
Exploration or attempting to learn about and generate ideas about phenomena is a/an _____.
Purpose of a research
Collecting data is the third step in the research process.
False

_________ research focuses on collecting information to help a researcher advance a specific

ideological or political position or orientation that he or she believes will improve some part of
our society.

Orientational

It consists of identifying the major intent or objective for a study and narrowing it into specific
research questions or hypotheses.
Specifying a purpose for research
It consists of specifying an issue to study, developing a justification for studying it, and
suggesting the importance of the study for select audiences that will read the report.
Identifying a research problem
Which of the following is not a characteristic of a research?
Research is replaceable
Determining the field of research in which a researcher is keen to do the research work is the
first step in identifying a research problem.
True 

The ______________  is the subject or subject matter of a proposed study.

Topic

It is a process of steps used to collect and analyze information to increase our understanding of
a topic or issue
Research

It involves drawing conclusions about the data; representing it in tables, figures, and pictures to
summarize it; and explaining the conclusions in words to provide answers to your research
questions.
Analyzing and interpreting the data
When interventions and social or educational programs aimed at improving various conditions
are implemented, _________ research is often carried out to determine how well the programs
work in real-world settings and to show how they might be improved.
Evaluation

It means locating summaries, books, journals, and indexed publications on a topic.

Reviewing the literature
It is based on the idea that having a “researcher attitude” is helpful in dealing with your complex
and changing environments.

Action Research
The purpose of research is to discover answers to questions through the application of scientific
procedure.
True 
It means identifying and selecting individuals for a study, obtaining their permission to study
them, and gathering information by asking people questions or observing their behaviors.
Collecting data
The purpose statement contains the major focus of the study, the participants in the study, and
the location or site of the inquiry.
True
A kind of research that focuses on answering real-world, practical questions to provide relatively
immediate solutions.
Applied research
Reporting research involves assessing the quality of a study.
False 
It refers to some difficulty which a researcher experiences in the context of either a theoretical or
practical situation and wants to obtain a solution for the same
Research problem
It provides a general or broader set of ideas within which a study belongs.
Theoretical Framework
It refers to specific or narrower ideas a researcher utilizes in his/her study.
Conceptual Framework
The statement of the problem refers to some difficulty which a researcher experiences in the
context of either a theoretical or practical situation and wants to obtain a solution for the same.
True
It is based on the concepts which are the main variables in a study.
Demonstrate the Concept’s Prevalence
Define terms that are absolutely necessary in the study and do so precisely by using Wikipedia.
False 
A theoretical framework is a structure which the researcher believes can best explain the natural
progression of the phenomenon to be studied.
False 
One of the importance of conceptual framework is that it accentuates the reasons why a
research topic is worth studying, the assumptions of a researcher, the scholars s/he agrees with
and disagrees with and how s/he conceptually grounds his/her approach
True
The following are characteristics of a research objectives except:
none of these
The ____________defines the coverage or boundaries of the study in terms of the area or
locality and subjects or population covered, the duration or period of the study and the research
issues or concerns to which the investigation is focused.
Scope
The main body of a research paper consist of the following except:
Reference
A part of a research paper where a sequential listing of all major parts of a thesis with
corresponding page numbers are found.
Table of contents
A research report or ______  is an organized format of research work done.
Thesis
The __________framework is a framework based on an existing theory in a field of inquiry that
is related and/or reflects the hypothesis of a study.
Theoretical
One of the importance of conceptual framework is that it serves as the focus for the research
and it is linked to the research problem under study. Therefore, it guides a researcher’s choice
of research design and data analysis plan.
False
In writing definition of terms section, complicated and lengthy definitions like those required in
Science or Mathematics, should be placed in the Appendix.
True
the _________of the study should convey the main theme of the problem investigated and if
possible one should give a clue about the method or type of research involved.
Title
It is based on the concepts which are the main variables in a study.
Conceptual Framework
It is based on existing theory/theories in the literature which has been tested and validated by
other scholars.
Theoretical Framework
 The _______________definition involves using other words to define a term. An operational
definition ascribes meaning to a term according to specific operations used to measure it.
Definition of terms
The definition of terms is a part of a research paper that contains the definition of selected key
terms that were differently used in the study.
True
Which of the following is not a purpose of the "Review of Related Literature" section of a
research study?

Identifying key words, which is useful in locating materials in an academic library at a

college or university. These key words may emerge in identifying a topic or may result
from preliminary readings.
The review of related literature section of the research paper contains the list of works cited, as
well as works consulted but not cited in the construction of the research.

False 
The "Review of related literature" section will provide needed information for preparing the
research report, because this research report requires that you not only set your study in the
context of prior studies but also that you discuss the results in relation to other studies.

True 
It is a unique alphanumeric string indicating a persistent link to its location on the Internet.

Digital Object Identifier

It is an act of expressing an idea or a fact found in a source using different words.

Paraphrasing
The preferred method of citing more than one source at a time is listing each citation number
separately with a comma or dash between each citation.
True 
The basic format to reference an electronic book is
[#]    Author(s) Initial(s). Surname(s), Title of the E-book, xth ed. City of Publisher, (U.S. State or
Country if the City is not ‘well known’): Publisher, Year of Publication, pp. xxx–xxx. Accessed
on: Abbreviated Month Day, Year. [Online]. Available: site/path/file (doi:xxxxx, database or URL)
True 
Which of the following techniques that can be used to organize your Review of the Literature:

Avoid transitions
Research papers must be written in a ______  style, which is in the third person, not the first
person.
Formal
The format to reference print book is
[#]     Chapter Author(s) Initial(s). Surname(s), "Title of chapter in the book," in Title of the
Published Book, xth ed., vol. x. Editor(s) Initial(s). Surname(s), Ed. or Eds. City of Publisher,
(U.S. State or Country if the City is not ‘well known’): Publisher, Year of Publication, ch. x
[chapter number], or sec. x [section number], pp. xxx–xxx [page range]. Accessed on: Month,
Day, Year. [Online]. Available: site/path/file (doi:xxxx, database or URL)
False 
 The ____________style does not allow for the use of secondary citations.
IEEE
________are published yearly and provide comprehensive reviews of the literature on specific
topics. These topical reviews are writ-ten by specialists in the field.
Annual reviews
Handbooks and encyclopedias provide an excellent place to begin your literature search.
Handbooks and encyclopedias summarize major research contributions in specific areas.

True 
One of the sources in finding literature relevant to the topic is the ______ because most of the
current information about a research topic is usually found in it.
Journal
Use _______ between paragraphs in writing the review of related literature to provide
connections between ideas.
transitions
If you want to refer to the ideas or words of an author found in a source that you have not read
yourself, but have read about it in another source (for example if you want to refer to William’s
work found in Taylor’s), then it is alright not to locate the original source of this information
(William’s) and not to cite the original source. 

False
The [#] is called __________ It is a referencing element used to cite.
Reference number
IEEE in-text citations consist of numbers provided in ________ which correspond to the
appropriate sources in the reference list at the end of the paper.
square brackets
__________ are used to support an argument showing the exact words and phrases of an
author according to the original source
Direct quotes
The Methods Chapter of the research paper allows the the reader to critically evaluate a study's
overall reliability and validity.

True 
Research instruments are the instruments used for gathering or collecting data including the
tools used to measure the variables.

True 
The following statements are the importance of the methodology section except:

None of the choices.

The following questions are to be answered in the methods section of a research paper except.
How will you interpret the result?
A _________ is a set of elements taken from a larger population according to certain rules.
Sample
It used to test independence of group membership. It is applicable find the independence
between two (2) nominal variables.
Chi Square
The respondents are described as a small group or as a big group. Characteristics may include
sex, age level, socio-economic status, marital status, level of intelligence, education, type of
community (urban or rural, barrio or town), ethnic group, and other characteristics sought by the
researcher to describe his respondents.

True
It relies on probability theory and involves the use of any strategy in which samples are selected
in a way that every element in the population has a known and nonzero chance of being
selected.

Probability Sampling
Used to predict, singly or in combination, from among the independent variables the dependent
variables.

Multiple Regression
Regression is used to determine the degree of how one variable affects another. It measures
how strong or weak the relationship between two or more variables.

True
Quantitative approaches to research center on achieving objectivity, control, and precise 
Measurement
This is a sampling strategy in which the first element in the study population is selected
randomly and then every kth element, after the first element, is selected.

Systematic sampling
A method of data collection in which the researcher looks at what people do.

Observation
Which of the following is not a sampling technique?

Automatic Sampling
It addresses the questions “Who or what is in your study? Where are you getting your data or
content?”

Sampling
It is based on the premise that seeking out the best cases for the study produces the best data,
and research results are a direct result of the cases sampled

Purposeful sampling
An _________ is the basic unit selected from the population.
Element
A research problem is simply the framework or plan for a study that is used as a guide in
collecting and analyzing the data.

False
It is the process of drawing a sample from a population.

Sampling Technique
Determining the participants of the study is one of the methods in data collection.

False
The definition of terms is a part of a research paper that contains the definition of selected key
terms that were differently used in the study.

True 
It comprises defining and redefining problems ,formulating hypothesis or suggested solutions,
collecting ,organizing and evaluating data, making deductions and reaching conclusions and at
last careful testing the conclusions to determine whether they fit the formulated hypothesis

Research
It is based on the premise that seeking out the best cases for the study produces the best data,
and research results are a direct result of the cases sampled

Purposeful sampling
Traditionally, analyzing text data involves using color coding to mark parts of the text or cutting
and pasting text sentences onto cards.

True 
Conclusions are assertions based on the findings.

True 
The researcher should not draw an analogy and insight in identifying a problem or employ his
personal experience of the field in locating the problem. He may take help of supervisor or
expert of the field.

False 
Basic format to reference an electronic book
[#]     Chapter Author(s) Initial(s). Surname(s), "Title of chapter in the book," in Title of the
Published Book, xth ed., vol. x. Editor(s) Initial(s). Surname(s), Ed. or Eds. City of
Publisher, (U.S. State or Country if the City is not ‘well known’): Publisher, Year of
Publication, ch. x [chapter number], or sec. x [section number], pp. xxx–xxx [page range].
Accessed on: Month, Day, Year. [Online]. Available: site/path/file (doi:xxxx, database or
URL)
A research process which involves deciding on audiences, structuring the report in a format
acceptable to these audiences, and then writing the report in a manner that is sensitive to all
readers. It also involves assessing the quality of a study.

Reporting and evaluating research

It is based on the idea that having a “researcher attitude” is helpful in dealing with your complex
and changing environments.

Action Research
Which of the following is not a characteristic of a research?

Research is replaceable
The conclusions section is very important, because it is the summative statement of the
researcher’s study.

True 
One of the importance of conceptual framework is that it accentuates the reasons why a
research topic is worth studying, the assumptions of a researcher, the scholars s/he agrees with
and disagrees with and how s/he conceptually grounds his/her approach

True 
The main body of a research paper consist of the following except:

Results
The preliminary section of a research paper include:

the title page.

Control or influence, or attempting to apply research to make certain outcomes occur is one of
the purposes of research.

True 
It implies that research is related basically to one or more aspects of a real situation and deals
with concrete data that provides a basis for external validity to research results.

Good research is empirical

The review of related literature section of the research paper contains the list of works cited, as
well as works consulted but not cited in the construction of the research.

False 

It focuses on collecting information to help a researcher advance a specific ideological or

political position that he or she believes will improve some part of our society.

Orientational research
A method in data collection where the researcher collects or obtains “data” that were originally
left behind or used for some purpose other than the new research study.

Secondary data
Future research directions are suggestions made by the researcher about additional studies that
need to be conducted based on the results of the present research.

True