HMEMS80 2020 ASSIGNMENT 2 SEMESTER 1
1. Descriptive statistics describe _________.
1. the relationships amongst variables
2. the characteristics of an existing phenomenon
3. the causal factors within the current research project
4. relational qualities of data
2. A treatment and a control group are indicative of _________.
1. correlational research
2. survey research
3. experimental research
4. nonexperimental research
3. Your line manager asks you to start a research project to determine the relationship between
employees’ intention to leave the organisation and the company’s fiscal performance. Which one
of the following research approaches would be the most effective?
1. Regression
2. True-experimental
3. Correlational
4. Pre-experimental
4. When reviewing the literature, the general sources provide _________.
1. an overview of the topic and lead to more information
2. a level of information
3. lead to a clear problem statement
4. less and clear information
5. A hypothesis results when research questions are transformed into statements that
_________.
1. are non-directional and elaborative in describing the population
2. express a clear and unambiguous relationships between variables
3. can be rephrased depending on the particular results
4. are elaborative in expressing inequality between groups and variables
6. Plagiarism is considered academic fraud.
1. True
2. False
7. If a student is caught plagiarising in the portfolio of evidence, he/she will receive ZERO for
that specific section/part of the assignment.
1. True
2. False
, 8. A population is a _________.
1. list of all participants that have been selected for a representative sample
2. subset of a group to whom you want to generalise the results
3. group of potential participants from which you want to generalise results
4. group of potential participants to whom you want to generalise results
9. The appropriateness of the research approach (quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods) is
primarily determined by _________.
1. the training of the researcher
2. the availability of statistical analysis software packages
3. the nature of the research question
4. the availability of suitable measuring instruments to measure the variables concerned
10. The Portfolio of Evidence can be submitted in any format such as Doc, DocX, PDF, PPT, XLS,
(Etc.).
1.False
2.True
11. Because economics is a field that focuses primarily on numbers and calculations, this would
mean that the most appropriate research method in this field will be quantitative research.
1. False
2. True
12. If it is important for the researcher to obtain full sub-group representivity in the sample
drawn, the most appropriate sampling technique to use would be_________.
1. convenience sampling
2. cluster sampling
3. simple random sampling
4. stratified random sampling
13. Which one of the following is correct about the types of reliability?
1. Parallel-forms should be balanced so that it is easier to investigate the stability of the
measure.
2. Inter-rater is the most subjective because the scores are mainly based on the
rater than on the measure.
3. Test-retest reliability is more concerned with equivalence of the measure rather than
the time period.
4. Internal consistency is about the stability of two halves of the measure and how the
items were divided.
1. Descriptive statistics describe _________.
1. the relationships amongst variables
2. the characteristics of an existing phenomenon
3. the causal factors within the current research project
4. relational qualities of data
2. A treatment and a control group are indicative of _________.
1. correlational research
2. survey research
3. experimental research
4. nonexperimental research
3. Your line manager asks you to start a research project to determine the relationship between
employees’ intention to leave the organisation and the company’s fiscal performance. Which one
of the following research approaches would be the most effective?
1. Regression
2. True-experimental
3. Correlational
4. Pre-experimental
4. When reviewing the literature, the general sources provide _________.
1. an overview of the topic and lead to more information
2. a level of information
3. lead to a clear problem statement
4. less and clear information
5. A hypothesis results when research questions are transformed into statements that
_________.
1. are non-directional and elaborative in describing the population
2. express a clear and unambiguous relationships between variables
3. can be rephrased depending on the particular results
4. are elaborative in expressing inequality between groups and variables
6. Plagiarism is considered academic fraud.
1. True
2. False
7. If a student is caught plagiarising in the portfolio of evidence, he/she will receive ZERO for
that specific section/part of the assignment.
1. True
2. False
, 8. A population is a _________.
1. list of all participants that have been selected for a representative sample
2. subset of a group to whom you want to generalise the results
3. group of potential participants from which you want to generalise results
4. group of potential participants to whom you want to generalise results
9. The appropriateness of the research approach (quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods) is
primarily determined by _________.
1. the training of the researcher
2. the availability of statistical analysis software packages
3. the nature of the research question
4. the availability of suitable measuring instruments to measure the variables concerned
10. The Portfolio of Evidence can be submitted in any format such as Doc, DocX, PDF, PPT, XLS,
(Etc.).
1.False
2.True
11. Because economics is a field that focuses primarily on numbers and calculations, this would
mean that the most appropriate research method in this field will be quantitative research.
1. False
2. True
12. If it is important for the researcher to obtain full sub-group representivity in the sample
drawn, the most appropriate sampling technique to use would be_________.
1. convenience sampling
2. cluster sampling
3. simple random sampling
4. stratified random sampling
13. Which one of the following is correct about the types of reliability?
1. Parallel-forms should be balanced so that it is easier to investigate the stability of the
measure.
2. Inter-rater is the most subjective because the scores are mainly based on the
rater than on the measure.
3. Test-retest reliability is more concerned with equivalence of the measure rather than
the time period.
4. Internal consistency is about the stability of two halves of the measure and how the
items were divided.
