STA 630 SUBJECTIVE

One question was about problem definition which I could not Understand :( (3)

Relational, Causal and correlation hypotheses using Stress and job satisfaction.
(3)

Reliability of Measurement. (5)

Sales manager of a superstore want to sell database of customers to a marketing

company which he collected by ensuring his customers that the data will be used
to make customer card - Should he sell it or not in ethical point of view. (5)

What will be effect of Strict teaching method on rate of failure of students?

Find out: Dependent variable and independent variable
Which research should be done Exploratory, Descriptive or explanatory
Justify one?
Which use: Basic or Applied (5)
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 factors of low response of mail questionnaire, how we can increase the response
rate of mail questionnaire?
 identify the internal organizational factors of JOB design which can be operational
for research?
 why goodness of measure is important? how we can ensure the goodness of a
measure?
 a hotel is 10 miles away from the city and have low customer patronage,
management is worried about this issue, also hotel has not any marketing efforts?
 state the broad problem area?
 state the problem statement?
 identify one dependent and one independent variable for the scenario and justify the
reasons for that.?
 relatd to employee productivity 3 elements? 3marks
wht u will choose interview or questionnaire? 3marks
how research question formulate hypothesis? 5marks
testretest and reliability 5 marks
my subjective Question is
1. Difference between Reliability and Validity? (3marks)
2..What is total design effort? And why it is necessary? (3marks)
3.Woodland restaurant in located 10 miles from city, and it is facing
low response rate from customer, and the manager does not properly
market it,define the board problem area(5marks)
4. what is method of assessing Reliability? (5marks)
 I. 1.Researches looking through a one way mirror to respondents relates to ethical issue briefly
explain(3)
II. 2.Explain what is meant by interviewer bias and interviewer influence(3)
III. 3.Don’t remember
IV. 4.3.Woodland restaurant in located 10 miles from city, and it is facing
low response rate from customer, and the manager does not properly
market it,define the board problem area(5marks)

I. 5.Scenario in which a company wants to acquireother companies but are not related they are
thinking that if they acquire will the gain or lose research required (5)
II. Q1. what do you mean by measurable & describe its elements. 3marks
III.
IV.
V. Q2. Make a composite measure & a questionnaire having 52 Q’s with
three scales & 20 negative statements. 3marks
VI.
VII.
VIII. Q3. What is Operationalization & how is it done? 5marks
IX. Q4. High internal validity means low external validity & vice verse.
Discuss this statement in relation with lab & fiel experiments. 5marks
Long Questions of STA630 Morning Session (01-12-10) 8:00 AM
Question ( M - 3 )
Write six data collection techniques.

Question ( M - 3 )
What is test/retest. How we can find reliability by test/retest method.

Question ( M - 5 )
Researchers interviewed a group of people in a specific room. They were told that
only their interaction with each other and their point of views on a specific issue
are being studied but in fact high frequency sound waves were passed through
that room and their effect on human behavior was being observed.
Answer the following questions:
Is it an act of deception? Give reason for your choice.
Do you think it was necessary to deceive the respondent in this experiment?
What can the researcher do after the completion of research to rectify the damage
done to the respondents?

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MUBIN SAAB
Today Paper STA630 (03-
12-2010)

1. Repart building is the essence of getting true responses of the respondents.

Explain briefly. 3 marks
2. Mail questioners are cost effective but not always. Comment on the statement. 3
marks
3. How research question helps to formulate hypothesis? Explain with the of an
example. 5 marks
4. A valid instruments is always reliable but a reliable instrument is not always
valid? Comment on this statement. 5 marks

1. Need of preliminary notification in questionnaire

1. Time dimension in research design.
2. Define job stress and three cause of job stress.
3. Element consider in research design
2.

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12:38pm
total question 32
total mcqs 29
3 marks question:

1: report building is the essence of getting true responses of respondents explain

it?

2: Mail questionnaires are cost effective but some time most expenses..comment
on that statement?

5 marks question:

1: how is the interval scale are sophisticated then the nominal and ordinal scales

2: as u researcher who employees help you in to complete and co-prated with u

todays paper Subjective and ALL MCQs were new :(

Why is the ratio scale the most powerful of the four scales used in research? 5
How research question helps to formulate hypothesis. Explain with the help of an
example.5

Salman is going to conduct a research in which he will find out the reasons of low
motivation level in public organizations. For this he has to build a body of
knowledge and integrate what is known in this area. From where he can get this
information?3

Ali & Co. has been facing severe problem of high turnover for the last 2 years.
You as a researcher have been hired by the company to find out the reasons of
high turnover rate. Which method of data collection will you use (Observation or
Survey)? Justify your choice.3

MCQs mostly new (At-least I couldn't locate any from the files available here)
3Mks Qs were 1. Things to be taken care of in Data Collection. 2. Scenario based Q
asking for approach required to be used.
5 Mks Qs.1. Scenario - "Which tea brand is being used by how many people" - Tell the
scale of measurement most suited and also narrate uses of this data for extracting
which info.2. Difference in Theoretical framework and literature review. 3. ---forgot
something related to approach in research.

Shared By TAUQEER AHMED BSBA 8TH SEMESTER

My Yesterday's paper

18 MCQs 5 questions

1.A researcher is observing people from behind a mirror where the subjects cannot see
him.Is this ethical ?

2.Ms saima is conducting research on success and failure of women

entrepreneurs.Suggest variables and their relationship with research topic.

3.someone wants to do an internet survey about a new beverage.Suggest benefits of

internet survey from using this medium.

4.a company is facing the problem of severe turnover.They hired you as researcher to
prob into the problem and its causes.What will be unit of analysis and time dimension in
this situation and also state your reason for choosing them?

5.Is satisfied worker has high productivity; derive a testable hypothesis out of this
 research question and also state your reasons for this.

Good luck

Shared By Another VU Student in Last Semester 2014

His Today's paper

Questions = 23

MCQs =18

Long Questions = 2x 3 Marks and 3x 5 Marks

Questions1. Things to be taken care of in Data Collection. 3Marks

Question 2. Scenario based Q asking for approach required to be used. 3Marks

Qsuestion3. Scenario - "Which tea brand is being used by how many people" - Tell the
scale of measurement most suited and also narrate uses of this data for extracting
which info. 5 Marks

Question4. Difference in Theoretical framework and literature review.

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One was about deception ethical issue? 3

STA 630
A researcher is conducting a study to find out the risk taking behavior of investors. He finds that
young investors in particular are risk avoiders when they have lost more than 30% of their
money in previous 2 to 3 major investments. Taking this situation into consideration identify
following variables:
 Independent
 Dependent
 Moderating
(2) A researcher is doing a research to explore the reasons of sending parents to old age
homes. In order to collect preliminary data, which sources he should refer?
(3)
A research study indicates that organizational commitment will positively impact
on willingness to share knowledge but organizational culture can change this original
relationship.
List down the variables and label them as independent, dependent and moderating/intervening,
explaining why they are so labeled?

Independent Variable:
Dependent Variable:
Moderating/Intervening Variable:
(4)
Previous literature indicates that organizational loyalty is related with job commitment and there
is a positive relationship between variables. Suppose, you want to test the same relationship in
your research study.

You are required to develop a hypothesis for your research as well as identify and briefly explain
hypothesis type.
(5)
In which case, a researcher can conceal the purpose of the study?

What is the difference between categorical variables and continuous variable? An example of
each (3)
How research helps in Policy making? (5)
Why theoretical framework is important for research? (5)

Past paper
sta630
18 MCQs 5 questions
1.A researcher is observing people from behind a mirror where the subjects cannot see him.Is
this ethical ?
2.Ms saima is conducting research on success and failure of women entrepreneurs.Suggest
variables and their relationship with research topic.
3.someone wants to do an internet survey about a new beverage.Suggest benefits of internet
survey from using this medium.
4.a company is facing the problem of severe turnover.They hired you as researcher to prob
into the problem and its causes.What will be unit of analysis and time dimension in this
situation and also state your reason for choosing them?
5.Is satisfied worker has high productivity; derive a testable hypothesis out of this research
question and also state your reasons for this.