Chapter 2 MCQs

What is the main advantage of producing a written research proposal? a. Helps the institution. b. Helps with credibility. c. Informs all interested parties. d. Helps keep people employed.

Informs all interested parties

A student plans a research project; it is called A description of IBM. On the limited information we have (the title), which ONE of these, best applies to the idea? a. It is wide. b. It has an acceptable purpose. c. It has an acceptable method. d. It is narrow.

It is wide

Projects do go wrong. In one case a student could not analyse the data collected; he was not capable. Which ONE of the following would have been realistic and would have helped the most with this problem? a. Being less ambitious. b. Regular meetings with the supervisor. c. Using a Gantt chart. d. Using SPSS. e. Asking for the deadline to be changed.

Regular meetings with the supervisor

All of these may appear in a research proposal, but which one will ALWAYS appear? a. Research objective. b. Marketing objective. c. Business objective. d. Creative objective.

Research objective

Projects do go wrong. In one case a student was indecisive and collected anything, just in case it came in useful: web sites, photocopies, brochures. The questionnaire even included irrelevant s, just in case the information could be useful. Which ONE of the following would have been realistic and would have helped the most with this problem? a. Using a Gantt chart. b. Being less ambitious. c. Regular progress reports to the supervisor. d. Using SPSS. e. Setting a clear objective.

Setting a clear objective

What is 'a possible explanation that we may or may not agree with? a. The objective. b. The research question. c. The hypothesis. d. Grounded theory.

The hypothesis

What is the difference between research s and research objectives? a. No difference, they are the same. b. One of these is proposed by a supervisor. c. The is worded by the researcher, the objective is not. d. The wording of one is likely to be more specific than the other

The wording of one is likely to be more specific than the other

Projects do go wrong. In one case a student's conclusion was not acceptable. She jumped to that conclusion because it seemed to her to be the right answer. Which ONE of the following would have been realistic and would have helped the most with this problem? a. Regular progress reports to the supervisor. b. Being less ambitious. c. Working closely with the information collected. d. Asking for the deadline to be changed. e. Using SPSS.

Working closely with the information collected

Idea generation by two or more people thinking as freely as possible is formally known as a. forced relationships. b. the learning curve. c. gap analysis. d. brainstorming. e. clap-trapping.

brainstorming

The timing section of a report will NOT include: a. deadlines for submitting the final report. b. guidelines on ethics. c. progress report dates. d. deadlines for ending data collection.

guidelines on ethics

Which word fills all the blanks in this extract: We talk about generating __________, testing _______, rejecting ________. a. objectives b. hypotheses c. questions d. aims

hypotheses

In academic research, at University level, a verb best avoided in the research question is a. to describe. b. to determine. c. to identify. d. to establish.

to describe