ST.

VINCENT’S COLLEGE INCORPORATED

Dipolog City

GRADUATE SCHOOL

BUSINESS RESEARCH

Name: _________________________________ Date: ________________

Test I.

1. If you are to draft your concept paper as a primordial step in thesis writing, what
are you curious about to investigate particularly in your field of expertise?
List at least 3 issues/areas of concern that you wanted to find out.

Example: - Research Writing Performance of Senior High Students and

Teachers’
Research Teaching Experience.

Topic 1: __________________________________________________

Topic 2: __________________________________________________

Topic 3: __________________________________________________

2. Choose one of the three concerns to be investigated and in a figure roughly

illustrate your conceptual framework demonstrating your idea focusing on the
interplay of variables.
Example:
IV DV

teaching experience research writing performance

3. Choose one of the areas you enumerated on item number 1 and develop 3
questions which answers you believe are the key to your investigation (this is
called "question framing").

Example: What is the Research Writing Performance of Senior High School

Students in Practical Research?
Frame at least 3 questions be it descriptive, exploratory or explanatory.

Research Question 1:

________________________________________________
Research Question 2:

________________________________________________
Research Question 3:

________________________________________________
Test III. Differentiate

1. Assumption vs. Hypothesis

2. Target population vs. Accessible population
3. Related Literature vs. Related Studies
4. Researcher-completed instrument vs. Subject-completed instrument
5. Developmental studies vs. Correlational studies
6. Convenience Sampling vs. Purposive Sampling
7. Independent variable vs. Dependent variable
8. Directional vs. Non-directional Hypothesis
9. Primary source vs. Secondary source
10. Random selection vs. Random Assignment
11. Action research vs. Formal research
12. Validity vs. Reliability
13. Random sampling vs. Non-Random sampling
14. Descriptive research design vs. Experimental research design
15. Categorical variable vs. Quantitative variable

Test IV. Answer directly and sufficiently 10 pts each

1. Why is research of value?

2. Why are action researches important?
3. How does review of related literature enrich every researcher’s knowledge
concerning the problem he wishes to pursue?
4. How might threats to internal validity be minimized?
5. Why are quasi experimental research designs considered weak?