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1. Which of the following should not be a criterion for a good research project?
2. Which form of reasoning is the process of drawing a specific conclusion from a set of premises?
a. Objective reasoning
b. Positivistic reasoning
c. Inductive reasoning
d. Deductive reasoning
3. Research that seeks to examine the findings of a study by using the same design but a different sample is
which of the following?
a. An exploratory study
b. A replication study
c. An empirical study
d. Hypothesis testing
4. A researcher designs an experiment to test how variables interact to influence job-seeking behaviours. The
main purpose of the study was:
a. Description
b. Prediction
c. Exploration
d. Explanation
5. Cyber bullying at work is a growing threat to employee job satisfaction. Researchers want to find out why
people do this and how they feel about it. The primary purpose of the study is:
a. Description
b. Prediction
c. Exploration
d. Explanation
6. A theory:
a. Deductive method
b. Explanatory method
c. Inductive method
d. Exploratory method
a. You should trust research findings after different researchers have replicated the findings
c. Neither a nor b
d. Both a and b
d. It is typically used when a great deal is already known about the topic of interest
b. To identify the relationship between self-efficacy and student job searching behaviors’
c. Students with higher levels of self-efficacy will demonstrate more active job searching behaviors’
d. Do students with high levels of self-efficacy demonstrate more active job searching behaviors?
11. A review of the literature prior to formulating research questions allows the researcher to:
14. Research that uses qualitative methods for one phase and quantitative methods for the next phase is known
as:
a. Action research
b. Mixed-method research
c. Quantitative research
d. Pragmatic research
15. Research hypotheses are:
c. B but not A
d. Both A and B
a. Quantitative research
b. Qualitative research
c. Mixed-methods research
18. When interpreting a correlation coefficient expressing the relationship between two variables, it is
important not to:
a. Assume causality
20. Which research paradigm is most concerned about generalizing its findings?
a. Quantitative research
b. Qualitative research
c. Mixed-methods research
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1. Which of the following should not be a criterion for a good research project?
Answer:
2. Which form of reasoning is the process of drawing a specific conclusion from a set of premises?
a. Objective reasoning
b. Positivistic reasoning
c. Inductive reasoning
d. Deductive reasoning
Answer:
d: Deductive reasoning
3. Research that seeks to examine the findings of a study by using the same design but a different
sample is which of the following?
a. An exploratory study
b. A replication study
c. An empirical study
d. Hypothesis testing
Answer:
b: A replication study
a. Description
b. Prediction
c. Exploration
d. Explanation
Answer:
d: Explanation
5. Cyber bullying at work is a growing threat to employee job satisfaction. Researchers want to find
out why people do this and how they feel about it. The primary purpose of the study is:
a. Description
b. Prediction
c. Exploration
d. Explanation
Answer:
c: Exploration
6. A theory:
Answer:
a. Deductive method
b. Explanatory method
c. Inductive method
d. Exploratory method
Answer:
c: Inductive method
8. How much confidence should you place in a single research study?
a. You should trust research findings after different researchers have replicated the findings
b. You should completely trust a single research study
c. Neither a nor b
d. Both a and b
Answer:
a: You should trust research findings after different researchers have replicated the findings
Answer:
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d: Do students with high levels of self-efficacy demonstrate more active job searching behaviours?
11. A review of the literature prior to formulating research questions allows the researcher to :
Answer:
12. Sometimes a comprehensive review of the literature prior to data collection is not recommended
by:
a. Ethnomethodology
b. Grounded theory
c. Symbolic interactionism
d. Feminist theory
Answer:
b: Grounded theory
Answer:
14. Research that uses qualitative methods for one phase and quantitative methods for the next
phase is known as:
a. Action research
b. Mixed-method research
c. Quantitative research
d. Pragmatic research
Answer:
b: Mixed-method research
Answer:
c: B but not A
a. Quantitative research
b. Qualitative research
c. Mixed-methods research
d. All of the above
Answer:
c: Mixed-methods research
Answer:
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19. Ethical problems can arise when researching the Internet because:
Answer:
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b: Compares the level of agreement between two judges against what might have been predicted by
chance
PART B: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
a. Quantitative research
b. Qualitative research
c. Mixed-methods research
d. All of the above
Answer:
a: Quantitative research
a. An intervening variable
b. A dependent variable
c. An independent variable
d. A numerical variable
Answer:
c: An independent variable
3. A study of teaching professionals posits that their performance-related pay increases their
motivation which in turn leads to an increase in their job satisfaction. What kind of variable is
‘motivation”’ in this study?
a. Extraneous
b. Confounding
c. Intervening
d. Manipulated
Answer:
c: Intervening
a. –1.00
b. +80
c. –60
d. +05
Answer:
a: –1.00
5. When interpreting a correlation coefficient expressing the relationship between two variables, it is
important not to:
a. Assume causality
b. Measure the values for X and Y independently
c. Choose X and Y values that are normally distributed
d. Check the direction of the relationship
Answer:
a: Assume causality
a. Annual income
b. Age
c. Annual sales
d. Geographical location of a firm
Answer:
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d: It is typically used when a great deal is already known about the topic of interest
10. In an experiment, the group that does not receive the intervention is called:
Answer:
11. Which generally cannot be guaranteed in conducting qualitative studies in the field?
Answer:
12. Which of the following is not ethical practice in research with humans?
Answer:
13. What do we call data that are used for a new study but which were collected by an earlier
researcher for a different set of research questions?
a. Secondary data
b. Field notes
c. Qualitative data
d. Primary data
Answer:
a: Secondary data
14. When each member of a population has an equal chance of being selected, this is called:
a. A snowball sample
b. A stratified sample
c. A random probability sample
d. A non-random sample
Answer:
15. Which of the following techniques yields a simple random sample of hospitals?
a. Randomly selecting a district and then sampling all hospitals within the district
b. Numbering all the elements of a hospital sampling frame and then using a random number
generator to pick hospitals from the table
c. Listing hospitals by sector and choosing a proportion from within each sector at random
d. Choosing volunteer hospitals to participate
Answer:
b: Numbering all the elements of a hospital sampling frame and then using a random number
generator to pick hospitals from the table
a. The larger the sample size, the larger the confidence interval
b. The smaller the sample size, the greater the sampling error
c. The more categories being measured, the smaller the sample size
d. A confidence level of 95 percent is always sufficient
Answer:
b: The smaller the sample size, the greater the sampling error
17. Which of the following will produce the least sampling error?
Answer:
18. When people are readily available, volunteer, or are easily recruited to the sample, this is called:
a. Snowball sampling
b. Convenience sampling
c. Stratified sampling
d. Random sampling
Answer:
b: Convenience sampling
19. In qualitative research, sampling that involves selecting diverse cases is referred to as:
a. Typical-case sampling
b. Critical-case sampling
c. Intensity sampling
d. Maximum variation sampling
Answer:
20. A test accurately indicates an employee’s scores on a future criterion (e.g., conscientiousness).
What kind of validity is this?
a. Predictive
b. Face
c. Content
d. Concurrent
Answer:
a: Predictive
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4. A researcher secretly becomes an active member of a group in order to observe their behaviour.
This researcher is acting as:
Answer:
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6. When conducting an interview, asking questions such as: "What else? or ‘Could you expand on
that?’ are all forms of:
a. Structured responses
b. Category questions
c. Protocols
d. Probes
Answer:
d: Probes
a. Government statistics
b. Personal diaries
c. Organizational records
d. All of the above
Answer:
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9. Which term measures the extent to which scores from a test can be used to infer or predict
performance in some activity?
a. Face validity
b. Content reliability
c. Criterion-related validity
d. Construct validity
Answer:
c: Criterion-related validity
Answer:
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d: Attentive listening
Answer:
16. Which of the following is not always true about focus groups?
Answer:
a. The data may have been collected with reference to research questions that are not those of
the researcher
b. The researcher may bring more detachment in viewing the data than original researchers
could muster
c. Data have often been collected by teams of experienced researchers
d. Secondary data sets are often available and accessible
Answer:
a: The data may have been collected with reference to research questions that are not those of the
researcher
a. Official statistics
b. A television documentary
c. The researcher’s research diary
d. A company’s annual report
Answer:
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a. Word
b. Numeric
c. String
d. Date
Answer:
a: Word
a. A bar chart
b. A pie chart
c. A line graph
d. A vertical graph
Answer:
a: A bar chart
Answer:
5. The measure of the extent to which responses vary from the mean is called:
a. The mode
b. The normal distribution
c. The standard deviation
d. The variance
Answer:
6. To compare the performance of a group at time T1 and then at T2, we would use:
a. A chi-squared test
b. One-way analysis of variance
c. Analysis of variance
d. A paired t-test
Answer:
d: A paired t-test
Answer:
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9. To predict the value of the dependent variable for a new case based on the knowledge of one or
more independent variables, we would use
a. Regression analysis
b. Correlation analysis
c. Kolmogorov-Smirnov test
d. One-way analysis of variance
Answer:
a: Regression analysis
10. In conducting secondary data analysis, researchers should ask themselves all of the following
EXCEPT:
Answer:
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12. Validity in qualitative research can be strengthened by all of the following EXCEPT:
13. Qualitative data analysis programs are useful for each of the following EXCEPT:
Answer:
d: Generating codes
14. Which part of a research report contains details of how the research was planned and
conducted?
a. Results
b. Design
c. Introduction
d. Background
Answer:
b: Design
15. Which of the following is a form of research typically conducted by managers and other
professionals to address issues in their organizations and/or professional practice?
a. Action research
b. Basic research
c. Professional research
d. Predictive research
Answer:
a: Action research
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d: Using metaphors
19. In preparing for a viva or similar oral examination, it is best if you have:
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