BSNS112 QUALITATIVE WRITTEN AND PRACTICAL EXAM 2024
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
An understanding of business research methods is important because:
a. Business research is laden with terminology and jargon specific language.
b. Business research draws on complex research designs.
c. It is imperative to understand frontline staff needs.
d. It helps you to avoid the common pitfalls of research methods, it helps you to critically read
others' research and it helps you to better understand your own topics of interest. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅d. It helps you to avoid the common pitfalls of research methods, it helps
you to critically read others' research and it helps you to better understand your own topics of
interest.
What implications do values have on research?
a. They set the price of the research is worth to be sold for.
b. They influence the number of researchers to be involved in the study.
c. The value of the dataset to other researchers.
d. They influence the ethical decisions of the researcher. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅d.
They influence the ethical decisions of the researcher.
How important are ethical issues to your project?
a. They are somewhat important and can be considered at the final stages of the project
b. They are important to my project but are not something I need to consider until I have finished
collecting my data.
c. They are very important at many stages of the research process. They have implications for
what and who can be researched and for how research can be conducted.
d. They are of little importance to the topic I plan to study. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅c.
They are very important at many stages of the research process. They have implications for what
and who can be researched and for how research can be conducted.
Having no research questions or poorly formulated research questions will lead to poor research
because
a. I will only consider epistemological queries
, b. Marks are allocated for having a research question and without them my project will be
penalised.
c. I won't know what data analysis method to use.
d. The research is likely to be unfocused and I am likely to be unsure what data to collect. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅d. The research is likely to be unfocused and I am likely to be
unsure what data to collect.
What is data collection?
a. Collecting the research question and objectives together
b. Gathering the information (data) which will help you address your research question
c. Reviewing the literature review
d. Outlining how you will gather the information for your research question - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅b. Gathering the information (data) which will help you address your
research question
A good qualitative problem statement:
a. Defines the independent and dependent variables
b. Conveys a sense of emerging design
c. Specified a research hypothesis to be tested
d. Specified the relationship between variables that the researcher expects to find - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅b. Conveys a sense of emerging design
The statement of purpose in a research study should:
a. Identify the design of the study
b. Identify the intent or objective of the study
c. Specify the type of people to be used in the study
d. Describe the study - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅b. Identify the intent or objective of the
study
A qualitative research question:
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
An understanding of business research methods is important because:
a. Business research is laden with terminology and jargon specific language.
b. Business research draws on complex research designs.
c. It is imperative to understand frontline staff needs.
d. It helps you to avoid the common pitfalls of research methods, it helps you to critically read
others' research and it helps you to better understand your own topics of interest. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅d. It helps you to avoid the common pitfalls of research methods, it helps
you to critically read others' research and it helps you to better understand your own topics of
interest.
What implications do values have on research?
a. They set the price of the research is worth to be sold for.
b. They influence the number of researchers to be involved in the study.
c. The value of the dataset to other researchers.
d. They influence the ethical decisions of the researcher. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅d.
They influence the ethical decisions of the researcher.
How important are ethical issues to your project?
a. They are somewhat important and can be considered at the final stages of the project
b. They are important to my project but are not something I need to consider until I have finished
collecting my data.
c. They are very important at many stages of the research process. They have implications for
what and who can be researched and for how research can be conducted.
d. They are of little importance to the topic I plan to study. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅c.
They are very important at many stages of the research process. They have implications for what
and who can be researched and for how research can be conducted.
Having no research questions or poorly formulated research questions will lead to poor research
because
a. I will only consider epistemological queries
, b. Marks are allocated for having a research question and without them my project will be
penalised.
c. I won't know what data analysis method to use.
d. The research is likely to be unfocused and I am likely to be unsure what data to collect. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅d. The research is likely to be unfocused and I am likely to be
unsure what data to collect.
What is data collection?
a. Collecting the research question and objectives together
b. Gathering the information (data) which will help you address your research question
c. Reviewing the literature review
d. Outlining how you will gather the information for your research question - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅b. Gathering the information (data) which will help you address your
research question
A good qualitative problem statement:
a. Defines the independent and dependent variables
b. Conveys a sense of emerging design
c. Specified a research hypothesis to be tested
d. Specified the relationship between variables that the researcher expects to find - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅b. Conveys a sense of emerging design
The statement of purpose in a research study should:
a. Identify the design of the study
b. Identify the intent or objective of the study
c. Specify the type of people to be used in the study
d. Describe the study - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅b. Identify the intent or objective of the
study
A qualitative research question:
