Assessment

1) Research involves all of the following except   

2) Which of the following research types aims to explain why a particular
Does a phenomenon or situation occur?

3) In comparison to primary data, secondary data can be collected    

4) For any study you should question the validity and reliability of:

5) You are guilty of plagiarism if you:

6) Applied research is directed towards    

7) Which type of research design involves observing and describing a phenomenon without manipulating any variables?

8)  __________ is the collection of elements or objects that possess the information sought by the researcher and about which inferences are to be made.

9)  _____ means that the researcher alters the level of the experimental variable in specific increments.

10) Which of the following research types is concerned with collecting and analyzing data through observation or experimentation?

11) Which type of research allows decision makers to make causal inferences?

12) Which of the following is a stage of the data preparation process?

13) Which type of research allows decision makers to make causal inferences?

14) Which of the following is a stage of the data preparation process?

15)  _________ is research conducted to define the problem and identify possible courses of action.

16) Sampling techniques that use chance selection procedures are called:

17) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a well-defined research problem?

18)  __________________is intended to expand the body of knowledge in a field or to provide knowledge for the use of others.

19) The primary objective of _____ is to provide insights and an understanding of the problem confronting the researcher  

20) What is the name of the conceptual framework in which the research is carried out?

21) In which of the following interviewer bias is very high and thus a problem? 

22) As a practice in most management research studies _____ research is preceded by appropriate _____ research.  

23) Similar questions asked at different points in the questionnaire increase its

24)  _____________is carried on for the solving of a particular problem or for guiding a specific decision and usually its results are private.

25) A typical problem definition process involves all the following steps except:   

26) ______ is required to manipulate one or more independent variables to measure its effect on

27) All of the following are recognized as disadvantages of using telephone interviewing to collect research data EXCEPT:

28) Expert opinion survey is a technique used in   

29) What is self-plagiarism?

30) Which of the following statements about the research process is not true?   

31) What type of research is being conducted to answer the question: "What is the average age of our employees?

32) Which of the following refers to a gap in knowledge or a real-world issue that a researcher seeks to investigate?

33)  ..........is a framework or blueprint for conducting the research project.

34) A study is based on 30 people (across three focus groups). What type of study is this?

35)  _____ is a problem that requires taking a decision on what information is needed and how it can be obtained in the most feasible way  

36) Newton gave three basic laws of motion. This research is categorized as:

37) To get more insight into problem definition and objectives, one requires

38) The process not needed in experimental research is:

39) Large, representative samples are often used in _________.

40) The _____ measures the spread of the data.