2021-2022

R. Audenaerde
L. Van IJzendoorn

EXAM PREP RESEARCH SKILLS

International Public Management
Year 1
 Today

• Your questions?
• Study Tips
• General design of the exam
• Mock Exam
− Examples of MC questions
− Examples open-ended questions

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 Your questions..?

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 Study tips

Study the text book, as well as your notes and materials from the lectures and
workshops!!

Review the exercises/ questions in the textbook, but also the assignments
from the workshops: the exam questions will be very much alike!

Use the accompanying website (knowledge tests and exercises) with the
textbook to test yourself

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 General design of the exam

20 MC questions (testing knowledge of the subject matter covered): 50 % of the

final grade

7 open-ended questions (some split up in a/b/c components) testing

knowledge as well as your ability to apply some of the basic research skills we
have addressed and practiced in the workshops: 50 % of the final grade

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 Exam tips

Use officially issued exam paper for your final answers (scrap paper will not be
graded); we do recommend using scrap paper to first draft your answers before you
finalize them!

Write your answers to the multiple choice questions on the same sheet of exam paper as
your answers to the open-ended questions as follows: 1.: B

Read all the open-ended questions regarding the case before you start answering
the first one!

Give concise, yet complete answers to the open ended case questions.

Write clearly and legibly. Unreadable = wrong.

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 Mock Exam: MC

1. What is meant by 'stipulative meaning' in applied

research?

a. The conceptual definition of the subject.

b. The research flow of the research.
c. The agreements made for the research.
d. The definition that the researcher uses.

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  2. What does the Internet term 'allintitle' mean?

a. All words in the title are searched in the same order.

b. One of the words must appear in the title.
c. All words must appear in the title.
d. All pages with the word 'allintitle' are shown.

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 3. Longitudinal research:

a. is the same as an experiment

b. is research in which data from measurements are compared at different times.
c. is a research that always uses interviews.
d. is a survey that always uses surveys.

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 4. When is a sample result significant?

a. If you are (more than) 95% certain that your sample result is not
coincidental.
b. If you are (less than) 5% certain that your sample result is not
coincidental.
c. If you are (more than) 95% certain that your population result
will not be coincidental.
d. If you are (less than) 5% certain that your population result is
not coincidental.

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 5. What does a researcher do during the problem analysis phase?

a. The researcher identifies the problem and formulates a workable objective

b. The researcher indicates how the research question will be answered
c. The researcher collects the information needed to answer the research
question
d. The researcher answers his research question on the basis of the collected
data

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 Open ended questions (1)

We present you with a short article: case

We will ask you:

• To formulate research objective that would fit research deriving from the issue
presented in the article;
• A central question that would fit research deriving from the issue presented in the
article;
• Sub-questions (with a given central question) + define their typology
• To describe the population that corresponds with your research question;

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 Open ended questions (2)

• Describe research location (where would you carry your actual data collection
out?)
• Describe the most appropriate/ fitting method of data collection
• SUBSTANTIATE your choices on population, location and method for data
collection (explain WHY and HOW your choices would contribute to finding (the
most complete) answers to your research questions
• Design 5 survey or interview questions, depending on the type of research
question you have formulated

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 GOOD LUCK!

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