15 RM ENGG $01 Engineering & M.C.A. K L UNIVERSITY Pre., - Ph.D., EXAMINATIONS ~ JANUARY. 2016 a PAPER-I : RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 100 ‘Answer any five of the following: 1. (@) Describe various steps in research. 8M (b) Explain in detail about the identification, selection and formulation of a research problem. 12M 2. (a) Explain the terms "Scientific Citation Index (SC1)” and “Impact Factor (IF)”. 3M (b) Discuss in detail about the influence of “Scientific Citation Index” and ““Imact Factor”’in the quality of a research paper. ° 12M 3. (@) Write a short note on types of research reports. 8M (b) Expiain the significance of a research report and narrate the various steps involved in writing such reports. 12M 4, Discuss in detail about the role computers in research by covering all relevant aspects. 20M 5, What do you mean by multivariate analysis? Explain its significance in the context of research studies. 20M 6. Explain the importance of the statistical software’s SPSS and GRETL in research. 20M 7. Write a short note about the statistical analysis and modeling, Explain about the role of these terms in research. 20M 8. Write a short note about the soft computing and learning fuzzy systems with appropriate diagram. 20M wae15 RM ENSS 103 English & CSS K L UNIVERSITY Pre., ~ Ph.D., EXAMINATIONS ~ JANUARY 2016 PAPER -I RESEARCH METHODOLOGY . ‘Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 100 Answer any five of the following: 5* 20M Answer FIVE questions choosing at least THREE questions from Unit — 1. Candidates in the area of Literature should answer TWO Questions from Unit — Il — Literary Theory, while those in the area of Language Studies should answer TWO questions from UNIT - III- Language Studies. UNIT - 1 is Compulsory, ALL QUESTIONS CARRY EQUAL MARKS. UNIT =1 (1) Define Research, Explain the different steps involved in a research process. (2) “There is no such thing as “pure” reading: interpretation always involves extra textual knowledge.” Discuss this statement (3) Discuss the mechanics of writing that a research scholar needs to master in order t# communicate effectively in his dissertation. (4) How are Research Area and Research Topic interrelated? Explain and bring out the similarities and differences between them. (5) Answer any four of the following: (a) How do you cite an article on a website? Give an example. (b) How is a working bibliography useful? (©) How do you cite two or three books by the same author? (@) Footnotes and Endnotes. (©) Compare MLA and APA styles of writing a research report. (®) Hypothesis, UNIT =I ‘() “Post Colonialism is a reading Strategy.” Comment (2) What are‘the points of similarity and dissimilarity between Structuralism and Post Structuralism? Explain? (3) Why and how was Romanticism challenged in the twentieth century. (4) How do you account for the role of reader in the act of interpretation as illustrated by the Reader ~ Response Criticism? (5) Answer any four of the following: (a) Significance of ‘Purpose’ in literature. (b) Function of Criticism, (©) Ideology and Literature. (@) Woman as Reader and Writer, (©) Allusions. (8) Dietion / Style. (Turn Over)15 RM ENSS 103 English & CSS UNIT = (1) Systematic attention to grammar is neither necessary not sufficient foe learning to use a language.” Examine the validity of the view in relation to the teaching of English Grammar in the Indian classroom. (2) What are the educational implications of the Cognitivist theory for the language teacher? f (3) What is the role of ‘Socio-linguists’ in the study of a language? (4) “Linguistic context does not consider ‘extralinguistic’ factors”. Illustrate. (5) Answer any two the following: (a) Pragmatics. (b) Nature of discourse. (©) Computer Assisted Language Learning. (d) Importance of ‘pre-suppositions’ (e) Concept of ‘Social dialects’. (f) Linguistic semantics.15 RM MGMT 104 Management K L UNIVERSITY Pre., — Ph.D., EXAMINATIONS ~ JANUARY 2016 PAPER -L RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ‘Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 100 Answer any five of the following: 520M 1, (a) What is a research problem? How are problems framed in research terms? (b) What are the steps involved in the research process, and how are they applied to answering research questions? Illustrate your answer. 2. (a) Why should you conduct a literature review before you begin to design your study? (b) How do you develop hypotheses for conducting research? 3. (a) What is a research design? Is it a specific plan like a building plan? How would you classify research designs? (b) Select a research problem involving business decisions and prepare a research design for its study. 4. (@ What is sample design? What are the criteria for selecting sampling techniques?, (b) What are the limitations of sampling? How would you select a sample of 150 students out of 3500 graduate students in a University? 5. (a) You propose to conduct a Mail Survey of accounting practices followed in large manufacturing companies over the country. How you would improve the response rate of such a survey? (b) How is a Likert - type scale developed? Compare and contrast Likert - type scale with Thurstone scale. 6. (a) What is ANOVA? How and why is it made? Distinguish between ANOVA and ANOCOVA (b) What are one - tailed and two-tailed tests? How could you decide whether to use one - tailed test or two - tailed test? “7. (@) What is Chi-square Test? When and why is it used? What are the requirements for using it? (b) What are non-parametric tests? Discuss the respective uses of (i) Mann - Whitney U Test and (ii) the Sign Test. 8. (a) Select a research problem in the area of recruitment or training and prepare a research design for its study. (b) You have been asked to conduct research on brand equity and preferences. (What constructs or concepts might you employ? (ii) Choose the major concepts and specify their dimensions. (ii) How would you compile these various dimensions into a single index? (iv) How would you judge the reliability and validity of these measurements?15 RM SCI 102 Maths, Physics, Chemistry K L UNIVERSITY Pre., ~ Ph.D., EXAMINATIONS — JANUARY 2016 PAPER-I RESEARCH METHODOLOGY - Time: 3 hours ‘Max. Marks: 100 Answer any five of the following: 520M 1. (@) Differentiate between Research and Scientific methods. (b) How do you design Research problem? 2. (a) Define Regression and write its properties. (b) Find the correlation coefficient to the following data: x|3]4 s]7 8] 10{ 12 yfoj2/2[4]s| 8] 7 3. (@) What are various sources of collecting data? (b) Discuss various measures of central tendency. 4. (a) Discuss the steps in a sample design. (©) According to the norms established for a mechanical aptitude test, persons who are 18 years old should average 73.2 with a standard deviation of 8.6. If 45 random selected persons of that age averaged 76.7. Test the null hypothesis = 73.2 against the alternative hypothesis j1 > 73.2 at 0.01 level of significance. 5. (a) How do you select a random sample and analyze it? (b) A personal manager claims that 80% of the women employed in the factory quit the job within one year. Test the validity of the statement at 5% level of significance if a sample of 200 women employed last year showed that 152 left the job before completion of the year. 6,, (a) What are the techniques of Interpretation? (b) The mean weight loss of n=16 grinding balls after certain length of time in a mill slurry is 34.2 gms with a standard deviation of 0.68 gms. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the true mean loss of such grinding balls. [Note : Table value of t at 1% level of significance for 15 degrees of freedom is 2.947]. 7. (a) What are various types of reports? (b) Discuss briefly about the layout of a research project. 8. Explain the following terms: (@) Bibliography. (b) Spectral Analysis. (©) Goodness of fit. (@) Research reviews.