151. The role of a project supervisor is to:
Make sure you keep to your schedule and deadlines
Provide intellectual support, guidance and critical feedback
Negotiate access to the research setting on the student's behalf
Give you a reading list
152. You can manage your time and resources best, by:
Working out a timetable
Finding out what resources are readily available to you
Calculating a budget for likely expenditure
All of the above
153. How can you tell if your research questions are really good?:
If they guide your literature search
If they are linked together to help you construct a coherent argument
If they force you to narrow the scope of your research
All of the above
154. Which of the following should be included in a research proposal?:
Your academic status and experience
The difficulties you encountered with your previous reading on the topic
Your choice of research methods and reasons for choosing them
All of the above
155. Which of the following should you think about when preparing your research?:
Your sample frame and sampling strategy
The ethical issues that might arise
Negotiating access to the setting
All of the above
156. Why is it helpful to keep a research diary or log book while you are conducting your project?:
To give you something to do in the early stages of your research when nothing is happening
Because funding councils generally demand to see written evidence that you were working every day during the period of the research
To keep a record of what you did and what happened throughout the research process
All are corrects
157. What can you do to ensure your physical safety during your research?:
Be alert to the possibility of exposure to danger
Avoid interviewing alone in the respondent's residence
Make sure someone knows where you are and how you can contact them in an emergency
All of the above
158. What practical steps can you take before you actually start your research?:
Find out exactly what your institution's requirements are for a dissertation
Make sure you are familiar with the hardware and software you plan to use
Apply for clearance of your project through an ethics committee
All of the above
159. When planning to do social research, it is better to:
Approach the topic with an open mind
Do a pilot study before getting stuck into it
Be familiar with the literature on the topic
Forget about theory because this is a very practical undertaking
160. Which comes first, theory or research?:
Theory, because otherwise you are working in the dark
Research, because that's the only way you can develop a theory
It depends on your point of view
The question is meaningless, because you can't have one without the other
161. We review the relevant literature to know:
What is already known about the topic
What concepts and theories have been applied to the topic
Who are the key contributors to the topic
All of the above
162. A deductive theory is one that:
Allows theory to emerge out of the data
Involves testing an explicitly defined hypothesis
Allows for findings to feed back into the stock of knowledge
Uses qualitative methods whenever possible
163. Which of the following is not a type of research question?:
Predicting an outcome
Evaluating a phenomenon
Developing good practice
Hypothesis
164. Which of the following is not a data-collection method?:
Research questions
Unstructured interviewing
Postal survey questionnaires
Participant observation
165. The core ingredients (elements) of a dissertation are:
Introduction; Data collection; Data analysis; Conclusions and recommendations.
Executive summary; Literature review; Data gathered; Conclusions; Bibliography.
Research plan; Research data; Analysis; References.
Introduction; Literature review; Objectives, Research methods; Results; Discussion; Conclusion.
166. A literature review requires:
Planning
Good and clear writing
Lot of rewriting
All of the above
167. A literature review is based on the assumption that:
Copy from the work of others
Knowledge accumulates and learns from the work of others
Knowledge disaccumulates
None of the above option
168. A theoretical framework:
Elaborates the r/s among the variables
Explains the logic underlying these r/s
Describes the nature and direction of the r/s
All are corrects
169. Which of the following statement is not true?:
Research proposal is a document that presents a plan for a project
Research proposal shows that the researcher is capable of successfully conducting the proposed research project
Research proposal is an unorganized and unplanned project
Research proposal is just like a research report and written before the research project
170. Preliminary data collection is a part of the :
Descriptive research
Exploratory research
Applied research
Explanatory research
171. Conducting surveys is the most common method of generating:
Primary data
Secondary data
Qualitative data
None of the above
172. The introductory section of a research report should aim to:
Identify the specific focus of the study.
Provide a rationale for the dissertation, or article.
Grab the reader's attention.
All of the above.
173. Which proposal section is intended to describe the purpose with a full statement of the research question?:
Literature review.
Introduction
Proposed Method.
References.
174. An open question is one that:
Allows respondents to answer in their own terms
Does not suggest or provide a limited range of responses
Can help to generate answers for closed questions
All of the above
175. In order to post-code answers to open questions, it is necessary to:
Count the frequency with which each answer has been given
Categorize unstructured material and assign a code number to each category
Identify the three most commonly cited responses and give them a code
Find out where each respondent lives and make a note of their postcode
176. Informant factual questions are those that:
Enquire about personal details such as age, income and occupation
Ask people about the characteristics of a social setting or entity that they know well
Seek to find out about people's attitudes and opinions on a range of topics
Try to identify the normative standards and values held by a social group
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