APP 5 (Practical Research 2) Long Quiz

Instructions: Answer on a yellow sheet/scratch paper. You may pass in hardcopy or softcopy (email:
prescillabicaldo@up.edu.ph). Deadline is on Wednesday during our research period.

Note: Discussing to formulate your answers is okay, but this is individual work. Any form of copying
answers will render your grade ZERO.

1.What is research? (2 pts)

Research is a process of systematic inquiry that entails collection of data; documentation of critical
information; and analysis and interpretation of that data/information, in accordance with suitable
methodologies set by specific professional fields and academic disciplines. What is Research?
(n.d.) retrieved from https://www.hampshire.edu/dof/what-is-research
2.Give one significance of research (2 pts)

Research is our tool to correct things. Such as wrong prediction about something, research corrects it.

3.Give one strength of research and explain why (2 pts)

You can get reliable information. It ensures you that you are getting the correct information.

4.Give one weakness of research and explain why. (2 pts)

Expensive, there are times that you have to amend things. It costs you a lot. Another is the process of doing it.

5. What do we mean when we say that research is circular? (2 pts)

For me, it is because researchers coincidentally thought the same issue and perhaps, someone already done it
but fail to publish, then here comes the other researchers and pursue it. Fighting the same issue, believing that
it will be solved.

6. Give one difference between qualitative and quantitative research? (2 pts)

Quali: underlying reasons, opinions, and motivations and Quanti: structured data.

7.This type of quantitative research utilizes a proven idea and tests its effect on different groups. (1 pt)

Quasi-experimental
8. This type of quantitative research uses interviews, questionnaires and sampling polls (1 pt).

Survey methods

9. This type of quantitative research uses experimental set ups to disprove and/or prove hypotheses. (1 pt)

Problem solving

10. What format do most individuals/groups follow in writing research papers? (1 pt)

IMRAD

11. Give 5 variables that can be studied/observed under the topic of Philippine Agriculture. (5 pts)

rice, coconuts, corn, sugarcane, and bananas.

12.With the same topic, formulate 4 research questions about it. (1.5 pts each)
 a. Does farming gives adequate products of the people of Buhangin, Davao City?
b. Can farming sustain us?
c. Do farmers get the wage that they deserve?
d. Do farmers feed their own family?

13. Called the cause variable, the variable that acts on something else (1pt)

Independent Variable

14. The variable that is the effect or outcome of another variable (1pt)

Dependent Variable

15. You want to see if playing music makes plants grow taller. What is the independent variable? (1 pt) What is
the dependent variable (1 pt)

Independent Variable: Music

Dependent Variable: Plant’s Growth

16. What type of variable is temperature reading? (1 pt)

Dependent Variable

17. Mimiyuuh studied how far room temperature water would spurt out of a plastic milk carton when 3 mm
holes were punched at different heights from the bottom of the container.

a.) Identify the independent variable (2 pts)

b.) Identify the dependent variable (2 pts)

18. This type of variable has 2 or more categories but cannot be ranked. (1 pt)

Categorical and

19. This type of variable has only 2 categories as choices (1 pt)

20. Type of variable that does not have a true zero (1 pt)

21. Give one component of the research paper that is included in the Introduction. (1 pt)

22. Analyze the following problem and give what is asked. (10 pts)

James is studying the population of bats in 2 zones of Cave 3, Polillo Island during the dry season. He
tabulated the following data:

ZONE
Species of bat Dark zone Twilight zone
Rhinolophus arcuatus 10 5
Hipposideros coronatus 6 5
Hipposideros diadema 7 5
Miniopterus australis 15 9
Miniopterus schreibersii 10 10
Rousettus amplexicaudatus 24 18
Ptenochirus jagori 16 3

1.Identify the dependent variable. (1 pt)

bats

2.Identify the independent variable (1 pt)

Population of bats

3. Make one graph for James’ data. (Do proper labelling for axes and legends). (6 pts)

4.What zone had the most number of bats present? (1 pt)

Dark Zone

5. Which species had the most number of individuals present in dark zone and twilight zone? (1 pt)

Rousettus amplexicaudatus