STA630 Final Term MCQs

Quiz No 3 lec23-40(Final term MCQ)

Q1. All of the following are the principles of asking interview question. EXCEPT

1. Ask the question in the order in which they are presented in the questionnaire
2. Repeat questions that are misunderstood or misinterpreted.
3. Read each question rapidly
4. Ask the questions exactly as they are worded in the questionnaire

Correct answer: Read each question rapidly

Q2. The summary description of a given variable in a population is called as:

1. Statistics
2. Sampling unit
3. Observation unit
4. Parameter

Correct answer: Parameter

Q3. A random sampling technique which chooses number of subgroups from population for depth-study is called

1. Simple random sample
2. Stratified random sampling
3. Cluster sampling
4. Systematic sampling

Correct answer: Stratified random sampling

Q4. Secondary/existing data may include which of the following?

1. Official document
2. personal document
3. Archived researched data
4. all of the given option

Correct answer: all of the given option

Q5. How is nominal data presented?

1. In order
2. In discrete categories
3. Units of equal distance
4. Data where there is a true zero

Correct answer: In discrete categories

Q6. Which of the following will give a more “accurate” representation of the population from which a sample has been taken?

1. a large sample based on the convenience sampling technique
2. a small sample based on simple random sampling
3. a large sample based on simple random sampling
4. a small cluster sample

Correct answer: a large sample based on simple random sampling

Q7. Which of the following is the least reliable sampling design but normally cheapest and easiest to conduct?

1. Convenience sampling
2. Purposive sampling
3. Quota sampling
4. Snowball sampling

Correct answer: Convenience sampling

Q8. In non-experiment research, a researcher controls for alternative explanations with

1. Statistics
2. instrument
3. Laboratories
4. none of the given option

Correct answer: Statistics

Q9. …………………. is the list elements from which the sample is drawn.

1. Population
2. sampling frame
3. Sampling unit
4. observation unit

Correct answer: sampling frame

Q10. Which of the following is not example of historical comparative research?

1. Social forms
2. Turnover
3. Civil wars
4. economic form

Correct answer: Turnover

Q11. In data collection process, when a researcher has to conduct an in depth interview. Which of the following is necessary?

1. Observation
2. questionnaire
3. Interview guide
4. interview schedule

Correct answer: Interview guide

12………. may be necessary in situation in which the respondent begins to lose track of the question?

1. Probing
2. recording the responses
3. Verbal communication
4. in house training

Correct answer: Probing

Q13. When studying the simultaneous responses to two categorical questions we should set up a:

1. Contingency table.
2. Frequency distribution table.
3. Cumulative percentage distribution table.
4. Histogram.

Correct answer: Contingency table.

Q14. A researcher wanted to study, the satisfaction level of private school teachers in Lahore. For this purpose he selected two private schools from population of all private schools in Lahore and then took 40 teacher randomly from those schools. Which of the sampling technique he is using.

1. Purposive sampling
2. convenience sampling
3. Simple random sampling
4. stratified random sampling

Correct answer: stratified random sampling

Q15. The easiest way to describe the numerical data of one variable is with a :

1. Cumulative percentage distribution table
2. bar charts
3. Pie chart
4. Frequency distribution.

Correct answer: Frequency distribution.

16. When you are confident that the experimental manipulation produced the changes you measured in the dependent variable, your study probably has good validity.

1. Construct
2. Internal
3. External
4. Causal

17………is not an example of non-probability sampling technique a) Purposive b) quota c) Convenience d) cluster

Q18. A researcher wants to study the impact of average hour of study in a week on CGPA of MBA students in virtual university of Pakistan .He focused on specially the students in finance. The total number of MBA (Finance) students in VU is an example of which of the following?

1. Sample
2. element
3. Population
4. target population

Q19. Control in experimental research is BEST described as an attempt to:

1. Limit threats to external validity
2. Increase the generalize ability of findings
3. Equate the subjects on the treatment variable
4. Limit threats to internal validity

Correct answer: Limit threats to internal validity

Q20. A sample can be defined as

1. The subject on which measurement being taken
2. The total collection of elements about which we want to some interference
3. The count of all elements in a population
4. Some selected elements from the population through which we can conclusion about all population

Q21. In experiment research study, the primary goal is to isolate and identify the effect produced by which of the following?

1. Dependent variable
2. Extraneous variable
3. Independent variable
4. Confounding variable

Correct answer: Independent variable

22…………is measure in which the researcher captures the direction of a variable construct. a) Scale b) Index c) Collapsing d) Combining

Q23. Which of the following would allow me to have the MOST control over environmental variables when conducting a research study?

1. True experimental design
2. Quasi-experimental design
3. Survey
4. Case study

Q24. In quasi- experimental research designs, causal interpretations can be made

1. Only when rival explanations have been shown to be plausible
2. only when rival explanations have been shown to be implausible
3. Only when rival explanations have been randomly selected
4. Only there is single participant in the experiment

Q25. Making inferences pertinent to the meaning and implications of the research investigation and drawing conclusions. Is definition of

1. Interpretation
2. graphical explanation’
3. Summary statistics
4. Visual representation

Correct answer: Interpretation

Q26. ..measure in which a researcher adds or combines several distinct indicators

1. Scale
2. Index
3. Collapsing
4. Combining

Correct answer: Index