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(d) It enables them to make best possible judgments about what should be taught and
how.
14. What does view of related research and literature not do?
(a) Provide the researcher with sufficient useful knowledge
(b) Help the researcher in identifying needed problems of research
(c) Make the researcher competent and perfect in doing research
(d) Make the researcher aware of the pitfalls that plagued his predecessors.
15. Who said that the problem is a proposed question for solution?
(a) John C. Torensand
(b) J.C. Almak
(c) Fred N. Kurlinger
(d) John W. Best.
16. What type of study means comparison of likeness and differences among
phenomena to find out factors which seem to accompany or contribute to the
occurrence of certain events?
(a) A correlational study
(b) An experimental study
(c) A causal comparative study
(d) An ex post-facto study.
17. Which of the following is not a correct statement?
(a) A test can be reliable without being valid
(b) A test cannot be valid without being reliable
(c) A test can be reliable and valid both
(b) Quantitative
(c) Both of them
(d) None of these.
27. What are the kinds of variables?
(a) Continuous
(b) Discrete
(c) Both
(d) None of these.
28. On what basis data are classified?
(a) Clarity
(b) Stability
(c) Flexibility
(d) All of these.
29. What is the meaning of population in Educational Research?
(a) Male, Female, Children
(b) Observation of all the units
(c) Elites
(d) All of these.
30. Who has called sample an element of facts?
(a) W.G Kokaran
(b) John W. Best
(c) George J. Mouley
(d) The responses obtained on the inventories are evaluated to obtain descriptions of
certain fundamental predic-positions of the subjects.
35. With whom is the sociometric technique closely identified?
(a) J.F. Moreno
(b) Helen Jennings
(c) P.V. Young
(d) Henry A. Murray.
36. In which study sociometric methods cannot be used with advantage?
(a) Personality
(b) Leadership
(c) Group structure
(d) Social adjustments.
37. Which of the following is not employed in sociometric studies ?
(a) Questionnaires
(b) Rating scales
(c) Interviews
(d) Observations.
38. What is MAXMINCON?
(a) A design of experimental research
(b) A method of statistical analysis
(c) A combination of three key words each pointing out to a separate principle of
designing experimental research
(d) None of these.
(a) Questionnaire
(b) Interview
(c) Projective technique
(d) Sociometry.
44. Which is the best measurement of social status?
(a) Questionnaire
(b) Interview
(c) Observation
(d) Sociometry.
45. Which is not described by Kerlinger as a method of controlling extraneous
variables?
(a) Purposive sampling
(b) Selection
(c) Randomization
(d) Matching.
46. What determines whether a researcher should use .05 or .01 level of
significance for testing the hypothesis?
(a) How important are the findings
(b) How much risk is involved in incorrect finding
(c) How much precision is required
(d) All of these.
47. What determines the choice of statistical test to be used in the analysis of the
data of the quantitative research?
55. Which of the following statements is most correct about the difference
between Applied and Action Research?
(a) While applied research adds to an organized body of scientific knowledge, action
research does not do that
(b) While the findings of applied research have practical implications for educational
practices, action research is not concerned with that
(c) While applied research and action research both are undertaken to solve immediate
practical problems, in action research the researcher is the same person as the
practitioner who will use the findings of the research
(d) The difference between them is that of nomenclature only; otherwise they are the
same.
56. What is the importance of the correlation coefficient?
(a) The fact that there is linear relationship between the correlated variables
(b) The fact that it is one of the most valid measures of education
(c) The fact that it allows one to determine the degree or strength of the association
between two variables
(d) The fact that it is a non-parametric method of statistical analysis.
57. Which will be the most appropriate method of statistical analysis if a
researcher wants to know how much contribution a JRF-test makes to the over-all
success of the candidates?
(a) F-test
(b) Linear regression method
(c) t-test
(d) Product-movement correlation.
58. What does the validity of psychological test mean?
(a) The test measures certain predetermined values
(c) Getting the full meaning out of the authors ideas and paraphrasing them in his own
language.
(d) Concentrating on written material, eliminating unessential details.
67. Which is the purpose of theory building?
(a) Applied research
(b) Action research
(c) Fundamental research
(d) Survey research.
68. If the findings of a research have practical implications for improving
educational patterns, it is called
(a) Pure research.
(b) Applied research.
(c) Descriptive research.
(d) Experimental research.
69. On the spot research aimed at the solution of an immediate problem is called
(a) Survey research.
(b) Fundamental research.
(c) Action research.
(d) Pure research.
70. Research concerned with the derivation of generalizations of broad
applicability and only secondarily with any practical value is called
(a) Applied research.
(b) Fundamental research.
(b) Should be considered a research of value because the test so developed can be
used later by others
(c) Should not be considered a research because it does not test any hypothesis.
(d) Should be considered a valuable piece of research because a lot of labour and
energy have gone into it.
83. What is the modern method of acquiring knowledge?
(a) Authority
(b) Personal experience
(c) Scientific method
(d) Expert opinion.
84. Deductively reasoning out the consequences of the suggested solutions is an
aspect of thinking involved in the
(a) Older methods of acquiring knowledge.
(b) Psychological methods of acquiring knowledge
(c) Scientific method of acquiring knowledge.
(d) Personal experience as a method acquiring knowledge.
85. What is NOT the goal of scientific method of acquiring knowledge?
(a) Explanation
(b) Fact-finding
(c) Control
(d) Prediction.
86. Theory, as an aspect of research, does not
(a) Serve as a tool for providing a guiding framework for observation and discovery.
94. In t-test when separate samples are selected in two groups in one population
or in two populations, the test used is
(a) Two-tailed test.
(b) One-tailed test.
(c) Analysis of variance.
(d) All of these.
95. When the achievement and degeneration of one group is to be tested in t-test,
the test used is
(a) Two-tailed test.
(b) One-tailed test.
(c) Analysis of Variance.
(d) All of these.
96. In case of ANOVA what is the variance caused by treatment?
(a) SSAXB
(b) SST
(c) SSA
(d) SSw.
97. In case of ANOVA, what is SSW?
(a) The variance caused by the treatments
(b) The variance caused by the difference within the subjects
(c) The variance caused by the extraneous factors
(d) Total variance between the groups.
98. Which is not correct about non-parametric test of significance?
(a) They are distribution free tests
(b) They are small-sample tests
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