1) The process of evaluating field workers requires paying attention to the following, EXCEPT.

a) there academic qualification

b) quantity of data collected

c) time and cost management

d) quality of data collected

2) The key defining characteristic of experimental research is that:

a) The independent variable is manipulated

b) Hypotheses are proved

c) A positive correlation exists

d) Samples are large

3) All of the following are sources of secondary data EXCEPT:

a) official statistics

b) a television documentary

c) the researchers research data

d) a companys annual report

4) Which of the following is not ethical practice in research with humans?

a) maintaining participants anonymity

b) gaining informed consent

c) informing participants that they are free to withdraw at any time

d) requiring participants to continue until the study has been completed

5) Which of the following is the advantage of open endedquestions?

a) responses can be easily classified

b) researcher has a good prior knowledge of the subject researched

c) it provides the respondent with an opportunity of clarifying their answer

d) the researcher can avoid the potential problems of open-end questions

6) Which of the following techniques yields a simple random sample of companies?

a) randomly selecting a district and then sampling all companies within the district

b) numbering all the elements of a company sampling frame and then using a random number table to pick companies from the table

c) listing companies by sector and choosing a proportion from within each sector at random

d) choosing volunteer companies to participate

7) A researcher secretly becomes an active member of a group in order to observe their behaviour. This researcher is acting as:

a) an overt participant observer

b) a covert non-participant observer

c) a covert participant observer

d) none of the above

8) ____________________ is an unstructured, exploratory research methodology based on small samples that provides insight and understanding of the problem setting.

a) conclusive research

b) primary research

c) qualitative research

d) quantitative research

9) A researcher uses exploratory research during which phase of the research process

a) development of an approach

b) research design

c) problem definition

d) data analysis

10) A disadvantage of using secondary data is that:

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

11) Which of the following is not a survey methodology?

a) mail

b) observation

c) telephone

d) personal

12) In conducting secondary data analysis, researchers should ask themselves all of the following EXCEPT:

a) who produced the document?

b) is the material genuine?

c) how can respondents be re-interviewed?

d) why was the document produced?

13) Which correlation is the strongest?

a) 1.00

b) +80

c) 60

d) +05

14) Plagiarism can be avoided by:

a) copying the work of others accurately

b) paraphrasing the authors text in your own words

c) cut and pasting from the internet

d) quoting directly without revealing the source

15) An ordinal scale is:

a) the simplest form of measurement

b) a scale with an absolute zero point

c) a rank-order scale of measurement

d) a scale with equal intervals between ranks