ST. PAUL’S ACADEMY OF INABANGA BOHOL, INC.

Poblacion, Inabanga, Bohol, 6332

DIAGNOSTIC TEST IN PRACTICAL RESEARCH 1

Name: ____________________________________________Section:_______________Date: _______________Score:_____________

TEST 1. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Directions: Read the questions carefully and encircle the letter of the best answer.

1. The following belong to the characteristics of research, EXCEPT ______.

A. Accuracy B. Objectiveness C. Relevance D. Subjectivity
2. What characteristic of research shows the topic as instrument in improving the society or in solving problems affecting people’s lives?
A. Accuracy B. Objectiveness C. Relevance D. Subjectivity
3. A research must deal with facts, not with mere opinions arising from assumptions, predictions or conclusions. What characteristic is this?
A. Accuracy B. Objectiveness C. Relevance D. Subjectivity
4. A research must take a place in an organized or orderly manner. What characteristic of research is this?
A. Timeless B. Clarity C. Systematic D. Subjectivity
5. A research must have a topic that is fresh, new and interesting to the present society. What characteristic is this?
A. Timeless B. Clarity C. Systematic D. Subjectivity
6. This type of research aims at defining or giving a verbal portrayal or a picture of a person, thing, event, group, situation, etc.
A. Descriptive Research B. Action Research C. Correlational Research D. Explanatory Research
7. This type of research studies an ongoing practice of a school, organization, community, or institution for the purpose of obtaining results
that will bring improvements in the system.
A. Descriptive Research B. Action Research C. Correlational Research D. Explanatory Research
8. This research requires non-numerical data, which means that the research uses words rather than numbers to express the results.
A. Action Research B. Correlational Research C. Qualitative Research D. Quantitative Research
9. This research involves measurement of data, thus present findings referring to number or frequency of something in numerical forms.
A. Action Research B. Correlational Research C. Qualitative Research D. Quantitative Research
10. This type of qualitative research is the study of a particular cultural group to get a clear understanding of its organizational set-up.
A. Phenomenology B. Historical Analysis C. Case Study D. Ethnography
11. This qualitative research type is the examination of primary documents to understand the connection of the past to the present events.
A. Phenomenology B. Historical Analysis C. Case Study D. Ethnography
12. This qualitative research type requires analysis of communication content (letters, books, audio-visual materials, etc) used by a person.
A. Case Study B. Grounded Theory C. Discourse Analysis D. Historical Analysis
13. This part of research shows the account of materials published by professional researchers & experts in their corresponding fields of
expertise related to your present research.
A. Review of Related Literature B. The Problem and Its Scope C. Significance of the Study D. Statistical Treatment
14. This citation is a shortened version of the original text that is expressed in your own language.
A. Paraphrase B. Summary C. Short Direct Quotation D. Long Direct Quotation
15. Instead of shortening the form of the text, you explain what the text means to you using your own words.
A. Paraphrase B. Summary C. Short Direct Quotation D. Long Direct Quotation
16. The cliché—When you are in Rome, do what the Romans do—is true for ________.
A. Case study B. Historical Study C. Phenomenology D. Ethnography.
17. This is an act of quoting or copying the exact words of the writer and passing the quoted words off as your own words.
A. Quotation B. Direct Quotation C. Plagiarism D. Brainstorming
18. This is the beginning portion of the book that identifies individuals who have contributed something for the production of the paper.
A. Introduction B. Acknowledgment C. Citation D. References
19. This shows the complete list of all reading materials, including books, journals, periodicals, etc from where the borrowed ideas came from
A. Introduction B. Acknowledgment C. Citation D. References
20. This is the references within the main body of the text, specifically in Review of Related Literature.
A. Introduction B. Acknowledgment C. Citation D. References

TEST 2. ADVANTAGE OR DISADVANTAGE. Directions: Write ADVANTAGE if the statement is a form of advantage in using a questionnaire and
DISADVANTAGE if it is a form of disadvantage in using a questionnaire. Write your answer on the blank before the number.

__________21. It is cheap and does not require you to travel to hand questionnaire to a big number of respondents in faraway places.
__________22. It entails an easy distribution to respondents.
__________23. There is a possibility that some questions you do not go back to you, & prevents you from getting the desired response rate.
__________24. It offers more opportunity for the respondents to ponder on their answers.
__________25. Confusing and interesting questions to respondents fail to elicit the desire response.
__________26. It has the capacity to elicit spontaneous or genuine answers from the respondents.
__________27. It prevents you from being with the respondent physically to help them unlock some difficulties in their understanding.
__________28. Owning to individual differences between the selected subjects & those in population, it is unsure to obtain unbiased results.
__________29. It enables easy comparison of answers because of a certain degree of uniformity among the questions.
__________30. It discovers people’s thoughts and feeling about the topic of the research.

TEST 3. IDENTIFICATION (2 items) Directions: Identify the meaning of these particular referencing styles.
31. APA - ____________________________________________ 32. MLA-______________________________________________

TEST 3. (33-40) RESEARCH STRUCTURE OR FORMAT. Directions: Arrange the following research parts in their appropriate research order. Write
your answers on the back page.

-References -Title -Findings -Recommendations

-Method -Introduction -Abstract -Discussion and Conclusion