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First Semester
RESEARCH IN DAILY LIFE 2
S.Y 2023-2024
General Instructions:
1. Shade the letter of your answer on the answer sheet.
2. Be sure of your answers, no erasures.
3. Use ball pen in writing your name in all CAPS PRINT.
4. Use ballpen in shading.
MULTIPLE CHOICE: Read the test item carefully and write the letter of the correct answer on a SEPARATE
SHEET of paper.
1.It is a scientific, experimental, or inductive manner of thinking.
A) Research B) inquiry
C) investigation D) survey
2.A type of research that describe and measure the level of occurrences on the basis of numbers and
calculations.
A) Qualitative B) quantitative
C) descriptive
D) historical
3.Which is not a question answered by quantitative research?
A) How many?
B) How? C)When?
D) What?
4.A quantitative research presents research findings in this manner:
A) Many prefer to study with textbooks.
8.A type of quantitative research in which finding truths about a subject is by describing the collected data
about such subject and determining their relationships or connections with one another
A) Experimental
B) Descriptive
C) Non-experimental
D) Historical
9.A quantitative research that treats or deals with the object or subject of the research in a definite or exact
manner and determines the extent of the effects or influence of the treatment on the object/subject, then discovers
the causes of such effects.
A) Experimental
B) Descriptive
C) Non-experimental
D) Historical
10.Which among the following variables are common in quantitative research?
A) Extraneous, confounding
B) independent, dependent
C) participant, situational
D) constant, latent
11.Observational bias occurs when an observer:
A) Is subjected to biased treatment by the research participants.
B) Is distracted and fails to notice key aspects of the study.
C) Is conducting a double-blind study.
D) Sees what they want to see.
B) Students find textbooks indispensable or necessary. 12. and should be taken into
account when considering a new research problem.
C) Perhaps, 30% consider textbook unnecessary in their studies.
D) Out of 100 college students, 90 find textbooks beneficial to their studies.
5.Some think of quantitative research as complex because of its use of .
A) Hypotheses
B) numerical data
C) factual data
D) theories
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[email protected] 6.People inclined to doing quantitative research wants to discover truth in .
A) An exact manner
B) a careful way
C) an indirect way
D) a personal way
7.Which of the following is a philosophical assumption of quantitative researchers?
A) The initial ambiguity that occurs in a study is desirable.
B) The purpose of educational research is to explain and be able to predict relationships. The ultimate goal is
the development of laws that make prediction possible.
A) Time; Cost
B) Attention; Participants
C) Time; Attention
D) Cost; Participants
13.Which of the following is the most important thing for a researcher to consider when deciding on a
research topic?
A) How they feel about the topic.
B) If the topic is researchable.
C) If they have adequate resources to research the topic.
D) How many research journals will want to publish an article on the topic.
14.A student is feeling overwhelmed trying to decide on a problem to research. How should she proceed?
A) Write down topics she is interested in.
B) Copy the work of others.
C) Abandon the concept of research altogether.
D) Focus on completing the literature review before deciding on a research problem.
C) Research investigations produce alternative visions of what the world is like. 15.Which of the
following is NOT a reason why formulating a research question is one of the
studying.
D) It is impossible for the researcher to stand apart from the individuals he or she is
first steps in a research project?
A) It helps refine what is being researched.
B) It helps lay the groundwork for the research.
C) It helps the researcher formulate and identify important aspects of their research.
D) It helps in choosing a topic for research.
16.A student is writing a research question. What should his first step be? A)Specifying what the question is about.
B)Indicating where the research funding is coming from. C)Formulating a hypothesis.
D)Ensuring their ideas are researchable.
17.Your research question is: 'What is the effect of television viewing on Filipinos?' What is the
PROBABLE reason that this question would need some revision?
A) The question does not lend itself to research easily.
A) Search
B) review
C) proposal
D) assessment
24.There are three key aspects to a literature review: summarizing, synthesizing and
A)Referencing
B) citing
C) paraphrasing
D) evaluating
B) The question does not center on specific concerns or issues. 25.Your literature review is a list of
all the work published on your topic and who argues what.
C) The question is too narrowly focused.
D) The question is too broadly focused.
18.Starting off with a research question provides a researcher with:
True or False?
A) True B)False
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A) A strong foundation and a question to answer 26.There are different ways to organize your
literature review. Which among the following
B) Their hypothesis
C) Their null hypothesis
D) Accurate information about how to accomplish the experiment
19.A hypothesis is:
A) A research question
B) A description of an event
C) An educated prediction
D) A sentence proving a phenomenon
E) A psychological diagnosis
20.A literature review is best defined as:
applies in organizing your literature review?
A) Chronologically
B) Thematically
C) Methodologically
D) All of the above
27.Which of the following are data collection methods?
A) Survey
B) Watching TV
C) Searching on Google D)Observation
A) Doing an internet search on a topic and looking through the results. 28.Designing a research is
thinking
B) The process of studying published research.
C) The process of studying published research and the written review outlining what literature was reviewed.
D) The written component of a research project that discusses the existing research the researcher reviewed.
21.Why does a researcher conduct a literature review?
A) To familiarize themselves with the field.
B) They are required to by other researchers.
C) They are paid to review it.
D) To reproduce existing research.
22.If you are studying a specialized topic, like 'Common symptoms of mentally ill children', but search for
something broad, like 'Psychology of children', you are likely to find:
A) A large amount of relevant articles.
B) A small amount of relevant articles.
C) A large amount of non-relevant articles.
D) A small amount of non-relevant articles.
23.A literature review is a written summary of the findings of a literature
A) Critically
B) skillfully
C) literally
D) imaginatively
29.When designing research, you need to see your research process in your .
A) Paper
B) mind
C) library D)book
30.Preparing in your mind how to find answers to your research questions is .
A) Deciding on your research topic B)Controlling your emotions C)Designing your research
D) Asking research questions
31.These are aspects of your research: research objectives, topic, questions, hypotheses, and methodology,
you come to think of quantitative research design .
A) Before finalizing your mind on these aspects of your research
B) After thinking of these aspects of your research
C) As you formulate hypotheses about these parts
D) As you ponder on your research problem
A) the emotional content of the questions.
B) the reason the questions are being asked.
C) whether or not the interviewer is following set questions or creating their own.
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32.Central to experimental design is analyzing relationships that are A)Specific
B) causal
C) hypothetical
D) stable
33.A quantitative research design that is equated with qualitative design is .
A) True experimental
B) semi experimental
C) non-experimental
D) quasi-experimental
40.I am looking into how strongly people believe the world will end in 2100. The best way of gathering
data would be:
A) Semi-structured Interviews
B) Unstructured Interview
C) Structured Interview
D) Survey
34.Quantitative research designs are true for all experimental designs except the aspect on
.
A) Subject selection
B) variable relationships
C) treatment application
D) variable control
35.A quantitative research design that makes you behave as a scientist is .
A) Survey research
B) case study
C) experimental design
D) correlative study
36.An empirical study is based on a research design that is .
A) Qualitative
B) hypothetical
C) quantitative
D) theoretical
37.These two are the leading indicators of the occurrence of true experimental design:
A) Pretest and Post Test
B) treatment and condition
C) Randomization and variable control
D) experimental and control group
38.My research assistants and I will go out and question people on their thoughts and feelings about the
rapid development of technology and the impact it has on them. This would be an example of a(n) .
A) Structured Interview
B) Survey
C) Semi-structured Interview
D) Unstructured Interview
39.Different interviewing techniques are based upon
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