This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Research Design > Need For Research Design – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Need For Research Design Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Appropriate methods for conducting exploratory research would include: A) Longitudinal research. B) Sample surveys. C) Experiments. D) Secondary data analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Secondary data analysis. 2. What type of panel should be used in brand-switching studies? A) Discontinuous panel. B) Continuous panel. C) Exploratory panel. D) Inquisitional panel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Continuous panel. 3. In which of the following situations should exploratory research be used? A) When experimentation is needed. B) To define terms. C) In situations in which all of the concepts are clearly defined and measured. D) To determine how variable x causes variable y. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To define terms. 4. What are the two basic types of studies that are categorized as descriptive research? A) Focus groups and case analysis. B) Longitudinal studies and case analysis. C) Focus groups and cross-sectional studies. D) Longitudinal studies and cross-sectional studies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Longitudinal studies and cross-sectional studies. 5. Which of the following is true about research design? A) Research design should be the first consideration in a research project. B) Research design should be selected after thoroughly considering the problem and research objectives. C) Research design should be selected during the initial meeting with a client. D) Research designs should be made after data collection. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Research design should be selected after thoroughly considering the problem and research objectives. 6. Descriptive studies are conducted to: A) Answer in quantitative form who, what, when, where, and how questions. B) Specify the causality in the problem. C) Describe previous findings in similar problems. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Answer in quantitative form who, what, when, where, and how questions. 7. The various types of research design include: A) Exploratory, exploitive, and competitive. B) Deductive, descriptive, and exploitive. C) Exploratory, causal, and competitive. D) Exploratory, descriptive, and causal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exploratory, descriptive, and causal. 8. "Knowledge Networks Agency" provides clients with access to Latino households who have agreed to answer research questions sent to them by Knowledge Networks. This service is called: A) A panel. B) An experiment. C) A mail survey. D) A telephone survey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A panel. 9. Small groups of people brought together and guided by a moderator through an unstructured, spontaneous discussion for the purpose of gaining information relevant to the research problem can be categorized under which type of research design? A) Exploitive research. B) Causal research. C) Exploratory research. D) Deductive research. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exploratory research. 10. Quantitative research is a means A) For exploring and understanding the meaning individuals or groups ascribe to a social or human problem. B) For testing objectives theories by examining the relationship among variables. These variables, in turn, can be measured, typically on instruments, so that numbered data can be analysed using statistical procedures. C) Is an approach to inquiry that combines or associate both qualitative and quantitative forms. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) For testing objectives theories by examining the relationship among variables. These variables, in turn, can be measured, typically on instruments, so that numbered data can be analysed using statistical procedures. 11. A panel of respondents is often used in which type of study? A) Cross-sectional. B) Longitudinal. C) Sample surveys. D) Case analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Longitudinal. 12. If the research objective is to gain background information, it is likely that the most appropriate research design would be: A) Exhaustive. B) Exploitive. C) Deductive. D) Exploratory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exploratory. 13. Independent variables are A) Those that (probably) cause, influence, or affect outcomes. They are also called treatment, manipulated, antecedent or predictor variables. B) Those that depend on the independent variables; they are the outcomes or results of the influence of the independent variables. C) New variables constructed by a researcher by taking one variable and multiplying it by another to determine the joint impact of both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Those that (probably) cause, influence, or affect outcomes. They are also called treatment, manipulated, antecedent or predictor variables. 14. Which of the following is the best description of research design? A) Set of advance decisions that makes up the master plan specifying the methods and procedures for collecting and analyzing the needed information. B) The specific pieces of information are necessary to solve the problem at hand. C) Set of advance decisions that are made after the data have been collected in order to determine how the data will be analyzed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Set of advance decisions that makes up the master plan specifying the methods and procedures for collecting and analyzing the needed information. 15. What type of panel asks the panel members the same questions on each panel measurement? A) Repeatability panel. B) Continuous panel. C) Discontinuous panel. D) Inquisitional panel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Continuous panel. 16. In qualitative interviews, A) The researcher takes field notes on the behaviour and activities of individuals at the research site. B) The researcher conduct face-to-face interview with participants, interview participants by telephone, or engages in focus group interviews, with six to eight interviewee in each group. C) The researcher often engage in multiple observations. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The researcher conduct face-to-face interview with participants, interview participants by telephone, or engages in focus group interviews, with six to eight interviewee in each group. 17. What type of research design should a researcher use if he or she wishes to determine the effect of a change in price on the sales of a particular brand? A) Exploitive. B) Causal. C) Longitudinal. D) Exploratory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Causal. 18. The purpose of literature review A) To provide measures or observations for testing a theory. B) To generalize from a sample to a population so that inferences can be made about some characteristic, attitude, or behaviour of this population. C) Helps to determine whether the topic is worth studying, and it provides insight into ways in which the researcher can limit the scope to a needed area of inquiry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Helps to determine whether the topic is worth studying, and it provides insight into ways in which the researcher can limit the scope to a needed area of inquiry. 19. What type of research is unstructured and informal? A) Deductive. B) Exploratory. C) Exploitive. D) Causal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exploratory. 20. The research problem A) Is related to a concept or phenomenon needs to be understood because little research has been done on it. B) Involve the forms of data collection, analysis and interpretation that researcher propose for their studies. C) Is a strategy of inquiry in which the researcher derives a general, abstract theory of a process, action, or interaction grounded in the views of participants. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is related to a concept or phenomenon needs to be understood because little research has been done on it. Related QuizzesPaper 1 QuizzesUgc Net QuizzesDetermining Experimental And Sample Designs QuizDevelopment Of Hypotheses And Applications QuizDifferent Research Designs QuizFeatures Of A Good Design Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books