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,TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) In most studies objectives are best set after deciding on methodology. 1) _______
2) A research objective always has to precede the research question. 2) _______
3) The research objective will start with the word To and a verb. Common verbs in research 3) _______
objectives are To identify; To establish; To determine; and To develop.
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
4) In academic research, at University level, a verb best avoided in the research question is 4) _______
________.
A) To describe B) To establish C) To identify D) To determine
5) Which of these words is most closely associated with timing? 5) _______
A) Harvard B) Gallup C) Hawthorne D) Gantt
6) What is the main advantage of producing a written research proposal? 6) _______
A) Helps keep people employed B) Helps the institution
C) Helps with credibility D) Informs all interested parties
7) Which of the following is not a primary purpose of a research proposal? 7) _______
A) Contracting with a client B) Summary of the dissertation
C) Convincing an audience D) Organising ideas
TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
8) It is a good idea to generate numerous ideas and develop them before choosing one in particular. 8) _______
9) It is unacceptable to take a previous study and repeat some aspects. 9) _______
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
10) Idea generation by two or more people thinking as freely as possible is formally known as 10) ______
________.
A) The learning curve
B) Clap-trapping
C) Gap analysis
D) Brainstorming
E) Forced relationships
11) If we take two or more words of interest and consider them together they will suggest new 11) ______
topics. This is formally called ________.
A) The learning curve
B) Forced relationships
C) Brainstorming
D) Clap-trapping
E) Gap analysis
12) Looking at past project titles, searching relevant sources and engaging in discussion is associated 12) ______
with what?
A) Creative thinking B) Rational thinking
C) Brainstorming D) None of the above
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,TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
13) Creative thinking is a technique for generating and refining research ideas. 13) ______
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
14) A symmetry of potential outcomes means that the project ________. 14) ______
A) Starts with a quantitative stage and ends with a quantitative stage
B) Will be valuable whatever the outcome
C) Starts with a qualitative stage and ends with a qualitative stage
D) Will be reliable whatever the outcome
15) Which of the following attributes is NOT associated with a good research topic? 15) ______
A) Timely B) Feasible C) Repetitive D) Fascinating
TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
16) Practicality should not be an attribute of a good research topic. 16) ______
17) Once a good research topic has been chosen it should not be revisited or refined. 17) ______
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
18) The title of the section of a proposal (or a final report) which has a discussion of the possible 18) ______
ways to carry out a research project is ________.
A) Hypothesis B) Method C) Hypotheses D) Methodology
19) Which of these is NOT a reporting format? 19) ______
A) Email report
B) Spoken presentation
C) Focus group
D) Poster display
E) Typed report
20) What is the difference between research questions and research objectives? 20) ______
A) No difference, they are the same
B) The wording of one is likely to be more specific than the other
C) One of these is proposed by a supervisor
D) The question is worded by the researcher, the objective is not
21) Understanding the relationship between followers and leaders. What does this statement 21) ______
resemble?
A) A research objective B) A research question
C) Both D) None
22) "How does the presence of interviewers influence the answers of interviewees?" This is a 22) ______
________.
A) A research question B) A research objective
C) Both D) None
23) These research tasks are slightly out of order. Which one should be moved? The study asked 23) ______
2000 people about Christmas shopping.
A) The costs of research were calculated B) People interviewed
C) A timetable was created D) The questionnaire was written
E) Tables produced F) Secondary sources consulted
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, 24) Which one of these is NOT a section of a proposal? 24) ______
A) Timing B) Methodology
C) Background to the problem D) Research question and objectives
E) Costs F) Abstract
25) What helps to agree timing, agree resource allocation and also draws boundaries? 25) ______
A) The proposal B) The final report
C) The questionnaire D) The observation form
26) All of these may appear in a research proposal, but which one will ALWAYS appear? 26) ______
A) Creative Objective B) Business Objective,
C) Research Objective D) Marketing Objective
27) Which word fills all the blanks in this extract: We talk about generating ________, testing_______, 27) ______
rejecting ________.
A) Questions B) Aims C) Hypotheses D) Objectives
28) In research we have null ________. 28) ______
A) Objectives B) Questions C) Hypotheses D) Aims
TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
29) A hypothesis is a proposition. 29) ______
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
30) Projects do go wrong. In one case a student left everything until the last minute. This could have 30) ______
been avoided by reasonable measures. Which ONE of the following would have been realistic
and would have helped the most with this problem?
A) Asking for the deadline to be changed
B) Being less ambitious
C) Using SPSS
D) Using a Gantt Chart
E) Setting a clear objective
31) Projects do go wrong. In one case a student was indecisive and collected anything, just in case it 31) ______
came in useful: Web sites, photocopies, brochures, the questionnaire even included irrelevant
questions, just in case the information could be useful. Which ONE of the following would have
been realistic and would have helped the most with this problem?
A) Using a Gantt Chart
B) Using SPSS
C) Being less ambitious
D) Setting a clear objective
E) Regular progress reports to the supervisor
32) Projects do go wrong. In one case a students conclusion was not acceptable. She jumped to that 32) ______
conclusion because it seemed to her to be the right answer. Which ONE of the following would
have been realistic and would have helped the most with this problem?
A) Being less ambitious
B) Regular progress reports to the supervisor
C) Asking for the deadline to be changed
D) Using SPSS
E) Working closely with the information collected
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,TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) In most studies objectives are best set after deciding on methodology. 1) _______
2) A research objective always has to precede the research question. 2) _______
3) The research objective will start with the word To and a verb. Common verbs in research 3) _______
objectives are To identify; To establish; To determine; and To develop.
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
4) In academic research, at University level, a verb best avoided in the research question is 4) _______
________.
A) To describe B) To establish C) To identify D) To determine
5) Which of these words is most closely associated with timing? 5) _______
A) Harvard B) Gallup C) Hawthorne D) Gantt
6) What is the main advantage of producing a written research proposal? 6) _______
A) Helps keep people employed B) Helps the institution
C) Helps with credibility D) Informs all interested parties
7) Which of the following is not a primary purpose of a research proposal? 7) _______
A) Contracting with a client B) Summary of the dissertation
C) Convincing an audience D) Organising ideas
TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
8) It is a good idea to generate numerous ideas and develop them before choosing one in particular. 8) _______
9) It is unacceptable to take a previous study and repeat some aspects. 9) _______
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
10) Idea generation by two or more people thinking as freely as possible is formally known as 10) ______
________.
A) The learning curve
B) Clap-trapping
C) Gap analysis
D) Brainstorming
E) Forced relationships
11) If we take two or more words of interest and consider them together they will suggest new 11) ______
topics. This is formally called ________.
A) The learning curve
B) Forced relationships
C) Brainstorming
D) Clap-trapping
E) Gap analysis
12) Looking at past project titles, searching relevant sources and engaging in discussion is associated 12) ______
with what?
A) Creative thinking B) Rational thinking
C) Brainstorming D) None of the above
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,TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
13) Creative thinking is a technique for generating and refining research ideas. 13) ______
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
14) A symmetry of potential outcomes means that the project ________. 14) ______
A) Starts with a quantitative stage and ends with a quantitative stage
B) Will be valuable whatever the outcome
C) Starts with a qualitative stage and ends with a qualitative stage
D) Will be reliable whatever the outcome
15) Which of the following attributes is NOT associated with a good research topic? 15) ______
A) Timely B) Feasible C) Repetitive D) Fascinating
TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
16) Practicality should not be an attribute of a good research topic. 16) ______
17) Once a good research topic has been chosen it should not be revisited or refined. 17) ______
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
18) The title of the section of a proposal (or a final report) which has a discussion of the possible 18) ______
ways to carry out a research project is ________.
A) Hypothesis B) Method C) Hypotheses D) Methodology
19) Which of these is NOT a reporting format? 19) ______
A) Email report
B) Spoken presentation
C) Focus group
D) Poster display
E) Typed report
20) What is the difference between research questions and research objectives? 20) ______
A) No difference, they are the same
B) The wording of one is likely to be more specific than the other
C) One of these is proposed by a supervisor
D) The question is worded by the researcher, the objective is not
21) Understanding the relationship between followers and leaders. What does this statement 21) ______
resemble?
A) A research objective B) A research question
C) Both D) None
22) "How does the presence of interviewers influence the answers of interviewees?" This is a 22) ______
________.
A) A research question B) A research objective
C) Both D) None
23) These research tasks are slightly out of order. Which one should be moved? The study asked 23) ______
2000 people about Christmas shopping.
A) The costs of research were calculated B) People interviewed
C) A timetable was created D) The questionnaire was written
E) Tables produced F) Secondary sources consulted
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, 24) Which one of these is NOT a section of a proposal? 24) ______
A) Timing B) Methodology
C) Background to the problem D) Research question and objectives
E) Costs F) Abstract
25) What helps to agree timing, agree resource allocation and also draws boundaries? 25) ______
A) The proposal B) The final report
C) The questionnaire D) The observation form
26) All of these may appear in a research proposal, but which one will ALWAYS appear? 26) ______
A) Creative Objective B) Business Objective,
C) Research Objective D) Marketing Objective
27) Which word fills all the blanks in this extract: We talk about generating ________, testing_______, 27) ______
rejecting ________.
A) Questions B) Aims C) Hypotheses D) Objectives
28) In research we have null ________. 28) ______
A) Objectives B) Questions C) Hypotheses D) Aims
TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
29) A hypothesis is a proposition. 29) ______
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
30) Projects do go wrong. In one case a student left everything until the last minute. This could have 30) ______
been avoided by reasonable measures. Which ONE of the following would have been realistic
and would have helped the most with this problem?
A) Asking for the deadline to be changed
B) Being less ambitious
C) Using SPSS
D) Using a Gantt Chart
E) Setting a clear objective
31) Projects do go wrong. In one case a student was indecisive and collected anything, just in case it 31) ______
came in useful: Web sites, photocopies, brochures, the questionnaire even included irrelevant
questions, just in case the information could be useful. Which ONE of the following would have
been realistic and would have helped the most with this problem?
A) Using a Gantt Chart
B) Using SPSS
C) Being less ambitious
D) Setting a clear objective
E) Regular progress reports to the supervisor
32) Projects do go wrong. In one case a students conclusion was not acceptable. She jumped to that 32) ______
conclusion because it seemed to her to be the right answer. Which ONE of the following would
have been realistic and would have helped the most with this problem?
A) Being less ambitious
B) Regular progress reports to the supervisor
C) Asking for the deadline to be changed
D) Using SPSS
E) Working closely with the information collected
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