Canossa School

City of Santa Rosa, Laguna, Philippines

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S.Y. 2018 – 2019

SECOND QUARTERLY TEST
Grade 11 Quantitative Research
Name: _________________________________________ Date: __________________ Score: ______/ 58
Section: ______________________ Teacher: Sevillo, Jomel M. Parent’s Signature: _____________

I. Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write the letter of the correct answer on the space provided.
________1. In an experimental design, the dependent variable is:
a. the one that is not manipulated and in which any changes are observed.
b. the one that is manipulated in order to observe any effects on the other.
c. a measure of the extent to which personal values affect research.
d. an ambiguous concept whose meaning depends on how it is defined.

________2. Which one of the following is a data collection method?

a. positivism b. interview c. case study d. analysis

________3. For any study you should question the validity and reliability of:
a. questionnaire b. sampling procedure c. testing d. all of the above.

________4. It means that the researchers get the same result if the study is repeated for several trials.
a. validity b. face validity c. reliability d. measurability

________5. If a study is "reliable", this means that:

a. method discussions are clearly enough for the research to be replicated.
b. the devised measures for concepts are stable on different occasions.
c. the findings can be generalized to other social phenomena
d. it was conducted by a reputable researcher who can be trusted.

________6. Why is it important to have well formulated research questions?

a. It gives greater clarity to the research problems and what you wish to research.
b. It leads to more focused research.
c. It avoids ambiguity.
d. All of the above.

________7. Which of the following are sampling considerations?

a. Who do you need to study in order to investigate your research questions?
b. How easily can you gain access to a sampling frame?
c. What kind of sampling strategy will you employ?
d. All of the above.

________8. A variable that is presumed to cause a change in another variable is called:

a. intervening variable b. dependent variable c. independent variable d. numerical variable

________9. Which is example of primary data?

a. journal b. books c. newspaper d. census conducted by researchers

________10. The key defining characteristic of experimental research is that:

a. the independent variable is manipulated. c. a positive correlation exists.
b. hypotheses are proved. d. samples are large.

________11. What do we call data that are used for a new study but which were collected by an earlier researcher
for a different set of research questions?
a. secondary data b. field note c. qualitative data d. primary data

________12. When each member of a population has an equal chance of being selected, this is called:
a. snowball sample. c. random probability sample.
b. stratified sample. d. non-random sample.
________13. 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 (respondents) and then using a random
number table to pick companies (respondents) from the table.
c. Listing companies by sector and choosing a proportion from within each sector at random
d. Choosing volunteer companies to participate.

_______14. Which of the following statements is true?

a. The larger the sample size, the lower the confidence interval/level.
b. The smaller the sample size, the greater the sampling error.
c. The more categories being measured, the smaller the sample size.
d. A confidence level of 95 percent is always sufficient.

________15. Which of the following will produce the least sampling error?
a. A large sample based on convenience sampling
b. A small sample based on random sampling
c. A large snowball sample
d. A large sample based on random sampling

________16. When people are readily available, volunteer, or are easily recruited to the sample, this is called:
a. snowball sampling. c. stratified sampling.
b. convenience sampling. d. random sampling.

_________17. When designing a questionnaire it is important to do each of the following EXCEPT

a. Pilot the questionnaire c. Avoid double-barreled questions
b. Avoid jargons d. Use leading questions

_________18. One advantage of using a questionnaire is that:

a. probe questions can be asked. c. interview bias can be avoided.
b. respondents can be put at ease. d. response rates are always high.

_________19. 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.

_________20. Interviewing is the favored approach EXCEPT when:

a. there is a need for highly personalized data.
b. it is important to ask supplementary questions.
c. high numbers of respondents are needed.
d. respondents have difficulty with written language.

_________21. A graph that uses vertical bars to represent data is called:

a. bar chart. b. pie chart. c. line graph. d. vertical graph.

_________22. The purpose of descriptive statistics is to:

a. summarize the characteristics of a data set. c. none of the above
b. draw inferences and conclusions from the data. d. A and B only

_________23. The measure of the extent to which responses vary from the mean is called:
a. mode. c. standard deviation.
b. normal distribution. d. range.

_________24. To compare the categorical performance of a group at time T1 and then at T2, we would use:
a. a chi-squared test. c. analysis of variance.
b. one-way analysis of variance. d. a paired t-test.

_________25. In conducting secondary data analysis, researchers should ask themselves all of the following
EXCEPT:
a. Who produced the document? c. How can respondents be re-interviewed?
b. Is the material genuine? d. Why was the document produced?
_________26. The importance of measurement in quantitative research is that:
a. it allows us to delineate fine differences between people or cases.
b. it provides a consistent device or yardstick.
c. it allows for precise estimates of the degree of relationship between concepts.
d. all of the above

_________27. The difference between measures and indicators is that:

a. measures are unambiguous quantities, whereas indicators are devised from common sense
understandings.
b. indicators have a more direct relationship to the underlying concept than measures.
c. measures are intuitively devised and then applied as if they were direct indicators of a concept.
d. indicators are unambiguous quantities, whereas measures are subjective and value-laden.

_________28. A sampling frame is:

a. a summary of the various stages involved in designing a survey.
b. an outline view of all the main clusters of units in a sample.
c. a list of all the units in the population from which a sample will be selected.
d. a wooden frame used to display tables of random numbers.

_________29. A simple random sample is one in which:

a. from a random starting point, every nth unit from the sampling frame is selected.
b. a non-probability strategy is used, making the results difficult to generalize.
c. the researcher has a certain quota of respondents to fill for various social groups.
d. every unit of the population has an equal chance of being selected.

_________30. What effect does increasing the sample size have upon the sampling error?
a. It reduces the sampling error. c. It has no effect on the sampling error.
b. It increases the sampling error. d. None of the above

_________31. Which of the following is not a type of non-probability sampling?

a. Snowball sampling c. Quota sampling
b. Stratified random sampling d. Convenience sampling

_________32. Snowball sampling can help the researcher to:

a. access deviant or hidden populations.
b. locate target respondents and data that are difficult to locate.
c. overcome the problem of not having an accessible sampling frame.
d. all of the above

_________33. The findings from a study of young single mothers at a university can be generalized to the
population of:
a. all young single mothers at that university. c. all single mothers in all universities.
b. all young single mothers in that society. d. all young women in that university.

_________34. Which of the following is a key premise when designing your questionnaire/observational checklist/
instrumentation?
a. Remember your research questions
b. Never ask a closed question
c. Use ambiguous terms to put respondents at ease
d. Identify the population

_________35. Why should avoid using double-barrelled questions in a survey?

a. a respondent should only have one response, and not a double barrelled one.
b. they make the questions too long and confusing, so respondents lose interest.
c. they are too abstract.
d. they confuse respondents by asking about two different things.

_________36. Leading questions should also be avoided as:

a. they suggest a certain answer and so may bias the results.
b. they create a mismatch between the question and its possible answers.
c. they involve negative terms and unnecessary jargon.
d. they ask about several different things at the same time.
_________37. Why there must be several trails in testing?
a. test out your questions c. find out the consistency of the result
b. identify and amend any problems in the question d. all of the above.

_________38. What is the difference between a bar chart and a histogram?

a. Bar charts represent numbers, whereas histograms represent percentages.
b. A histogram does not show the entire range of scores in a distribution.
c. There are no gaps between the bars on a histogram.
d. Bar charts are circular, whereas histograms are square.

_________39. What does the term 'outlier' mean?

a. A score that is left out of the analysis because of missing data
b. The arithmetic mean
c. A type of variable that cannot be quantified
d. An extreme value at either end of a distribution

_________40. What is the function of a contingency table, in the context of bivariate analysis?
a. It shows the results you would expect to find by chance.
b. It summarizes the frequencies of two variables so that they can be compared.
c. It lists the different levels of p value for tests of significance.
d. It compares the results you might get from various statistical tests.

_________41. Which of the following is NOT condition in using Chi-square test?

a.variables should be categorical c. data are numerical
b. it should have at least 5 observed values d. two variables are analyzed

_________42. Which Statistical test is used when the variables or data are: categorical, respondents are randomly
selected with at least 5 observed values, and it has hypothetical distributions or expected values?
a. ANNOVA c. Chi-square of independence
b. Pearsons correlation d. Chi-square fitness of good test

_________43. If there were a perfect positive correlation between two numerical variables, the Pearson's r test would
give a correlation coefficient of:
a. - 0.328 b. +1 c. +0.328 d. – 1

_________44.Which in the following numbers below could be probably the monotonic negatively correlated?
a.-0.063 b. 0 c. +1 d. – 1

_________45. What is the name of the test that is used to assess the relationship between two ordinal variables?
a. Spearman's rho b. Allergy c. Cramer's V d. Chi Square

_________46.What is the summarized part of the entire thesis or research paper?

a. abstract b. background of the study c. methodology d. findings

_________47. What is the purpose of the conclusion in a research report?

a. It just a summary what the article already said.
b. It summarizes the key findings in relation to the research questions.
c. It contains a useful review of the relevant literature.
d. It outlines the methodological procedures that were employed.

_________48. Usually confidence level is set at what figure as the standard?

a.100%. b. 5%. c. 55%. d. 95%.

_________49. A positive correlation occurs when:

a. two variables remain constant. c. one variable goes up and the other goes down.
b. two variables move in the same direction. d. two variables move in opposite directions.

_________50. An ordinal scale is:

a. the simplest form of measurement. c. a rank-order scale of measurement.
b. a scale with an absolute zero point. d. a scale with equal intervals between ranks.
_________51. According to the Harvard referencing convention, pick out the correct version of showing this book in
a bibliography in APA formatting style:
a. Bryman, A. and Bell, E. (2011, 3e) Business Research Methods, Oxford; Oxford University Press
b. Bryman (2011, third edition), Oxford University Press
c. Bryman and Bell, Business Research Methods (2011: OUP)
d. Bryman, A. Business Research Methods (2011)

_________52. The Levels of Measurement are typically placed in a sequence in which higher levels contain the
attributes of the lower levels, but add some attribute. At the lowest level it is not even meaningful to average the
numbers, while at the highest level it is possible to use inferential statistics. The sequence of levels of measurement
from lowest to highest is:
a. (lowest) nominal-->ordinal-->interval-->ratio (highest).
b. (lowest) interval-->nominal-->ordinal-->ratio (highest).
c. (lowest) ratio-->interval-->ordinal-->nominal (highest).
d. (lowest) interval-->ordinal-->nominal-->ratio (highest).

_________52.Which of the following is the first step when the researchers will use Chi test?
a. create contingency table
b. compute the raw observed data into expected values
c. convert the observed data into percentage
d. interpret the hypothesis

_________53. When the researchers compute the observed data using Pearson’s correlation and its result is zero (0)
therefore the data in the scater plot is:
a. scattered b. linear c. monotonic d. curvilinear

_________54.When the data in the scar gram is linear and consistently going from left to right, therefore the
variables being correlated are:
a. no relationship b. positively correlated
b. negatively correlated d. negative monotonic correlated

_________55. Which of the following is NOT elements of a good recommendation?

a. offers solutions to problems identified in the study.
b. offer alternatives to current or previous approaches
c. lay down the groundwork for future studies
d. skip writing the weaknesses encountered in the process

_________56. What is the list of the citations used in the research when the researchers used APA citation style?
a. references b. bibliography c. work cited d. in text citation

_________57. What citation style is used in this example bibliography?

Evans, Peter. (1989). Predatory, Developmental, and Other Apparatuses: A comparative Political
Economy Perspective on the Third World State. Sociological Forum 4.4 (1989): 561-587. Web. 15
March 2016.
a. MLA b. APA c. Chicago style d. In text Citation

_________58. Which refers to the chapter IV of a thesis?

a. introduction of the problem c. Presentation, interpretation, and analysis of data
b. Review of the Related Literature d. findings, conclusions, and recommendation

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