Research Methods Ara 2. Deneme Sınavı

Toplam 20 Soru
PAYLAŞ:

1.Soru

Which of the following research method is used to "determine general tendency, attitude, or opinions of a population quantitatively or in numerical values by working on a sample chosen from that population"?


Experimental Design

Intervention Analysis

Survey

Quasi-Experiment

Repeated Measurement Design


2.Soru

Which of the following is performed by statistical techniques combining data from multiple studies that have analyzed the same research questions?


Narrative Literature Review

Systematic Literature Review

Tertiary Sources

Focused Literature Review

Meta-Analysis


3.Soru

If a researcher is applying a previously used methodology in a study, what is the reason that the researcher seek?


Past experience

Replication

Theory testing

Rhetorical search

Affirmation


4.Soru

Which of the following is not true for quantitative research studies?


replicable

measurable

flexible

value-free judgements

generalizable


5.Soru

"It is a particular focus area within metaphysics, which focuses particularly on the study of “being” or “existence.”"

Which of the following options is the definition above defines?


Rationalism

Ontology

Substance of Existence

Idealism

Anti-realism


6.Soru

Which of the following is an example of parametric statistical techniques used in quantitative research?


Chi-square

Mann-Whitney U

Spearman Rank Correlational Coefficient P

Regression Analysis

Kruskal Wallis Variance Analysis


7.Soru

What is 'predictions or educated guesses about a certain phenomenon that are derived from a theory'?


Anomaly

Paradigm

Hypothesis

Methodology

Materialism


8.Soru

Why is the case study the most widely used design in the field of International Relations?


Flexibility of structure 

Providing in-depth information

Narrowness of focus

Comprehensiveness

Timelessness


9.Soru

Which one of the following is not a criterion for a literature review to be considered as a research methodology on its own?


Being commenced with a well-defined research question

Following a systematic approach to answering a question

Clearly documenting the steps that are taken to write up

Presenting the results and discussion sections

Deepening the knowledge related to the research topic


10.Soru

Which one of the following can be said about qualitative research method?


It fails to explain social phenomena

It takes social phenomena as fixed

It deals with universal values

It helps to understand complexity

It refers to timeless phenomena


11.Soru

Which one of the following refers to  physical evidence for qualitative research?


Interviews

Artifacts

Researcher diary

Documents

Observation


12.Soru

Which of the following data collection techniques completes the sentence below?
In ...................................., the researcher actively partakes in the target setting or the daily routines of the target group via direct interaction with the members of that group instead of taking a distant stance.


Researcher diary

Participatory observation

Interview

Documents

Artifacts


13.Soru

...................... is the expression of the relation that a researcher hopes to confirm after relevant data collection and analysis (Altunışık, Coşkun, Bayraktaroğlu, and Yıldırım, 2005). Which term is defined above?


null hypothesis

alternative hypothesis

statistical hypothesis

absence hypothesis

neutral hypothesis


14.Soru

Which of the following is a qualitative research design where written documents or conversations are interpreted about an event or a course of events that are chronologically related?


Ethnography

Case Study

Grounded Theory

Narrative inquiry

Phenomenology


15.Soru

Which of the following is not among the advantages of mixed-method research?


It offers a more solid research structure than quantitative or qualitative approach does

It lays the foundation where quantitative and qualitative data sets can support each other

It leads to more consistency in research findings

It is more meaningful than merely collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data

It helps to answer research questions more effectively


16.Soru

What feature of qualitative research methods refers to approaching the subject matter as a whole?


Holistic perspective

Sensitivity of natural environment

Participatory role

Identifying perspectives

Inductive analysis


17.Soru

Which qualitative research design aims to find out a general abstract theory?


Phenomenology

Case study

Ethnography

Grounded theory

Narrative inquiry


18.Soru

Which of the following is most often associated 
with in the field of empiricism?


Thomas Kuhn

Auguste Comte

Karl Marx

Rene Descartes

John Locke


19.Soru

What type of variable can be expressed through fractions?


Dependent variable

Independent variable

Discrete variable

Continuous variable

Non-continuous variable


20.Soru

Which of the following is not one of the basic beliefs of positivist philosophy?


Scientific knowledge must be based on empirically testable data

Empirical observations must be generalized and expressed as universal laws

There must be a unity of method across all sciences

There is no significant difference between the natural sciences and the social sciences

Knowledge can be produced out of non-empirical methods