LESSON 3

Class Assignment 4
(Topic 3-Literature Review)
Instructions: CIRCLE your choice.

1. An understanding of business research methods is important because:

A. business research is laden with terminology and jargon specific language.
B. business research draws on complex research designs.
C. it is imperative to understanding frontline staff needs.
D. it helps you to avoid the common pitfalls of research methods, it helps you to
critically read others' research, and it helps you to better understand your own
topics of interest.

2. What implications do values have on research?

A. They set the price the research is worth to be sold for.
B. They influence the number of researchers to be involved in the study.
C. The value of the dataset to other researchers.
D. The influence the ethical decisions of the researcher.

3. How important are ethical issues to your project?

A. They are somewhat important and can be considered at the final stages of the
project.
B. They are important to my project but are not something I need to consider until I
have finished collecting my data.
C. They are very important at many stages of the research process. They have
implications for what and who can be researched and for how research can be
conducted.
D. They are of little importance to the topic I plan to study

4. A literature review is an important part of the research process because

A. it is a summary of what literature is available on your topic
B. it allows you identify and read key books and articles by some of the main figures
who have written in the field.
C. my supervisor likes to create more reading for me.
D. I like to visit the library and read generally around my topic.
5. Having no research questions or poorly formulated research questions will lead to
poor research because
A. I will only consider epistemological queries
B. Marks are allocated for having a research question and without them my project
will be penalised.
C. I won't know what data analysis method to use.
D. The research is likely to be unfocused and I am likely to be unsure what data to
collect

6. A cross sectional study is carried out to examine whether Navy personnel of a higher
rank have more positive coping skills than those of a lower rank. Which of the
 following statement is true of this study?
A. The independent variable is coping and the dependent variable is low rank.
B. The independent variable is coping and the dependent variable is high rank
C. Neither variable is dependent as the researcher cannot manipulate them.
D. The independent variable is rank and the dependent variable is coping skills

7. The concept of 'variables' means

A. a derived from statistics
B. derived from biology
C. always been used in psychology
D. derived from physics

8. Abstract is
A. a summary of all the major finding
B. early introduction
C. a list of criticisms of the study
D. a piece of all important parts of the research

9. Which of the following contains no mistakes?

A. (Simmons & Gerard, 2006; Young and Epstein, 2007)
B. (Richards, et al; 2008)
C. (Smithfield, 2007; Taylor, 2008; Taylor and Gregson, 2004b)
D. (Sydney, 2003; Jones, 1999a)

10. Which is the best of the following?

A. To cite the actual source you used rather than the source of the original study
B. Cite the original study in the text of the report but leave it out of the list of
references because you have not actually read it
C. Cite the original study but then indicate where you got your information from
D. Cite the original study because that has the most detail