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LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

PRACTICAL RESEARCH II
Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. Savannah plans to conduct a study that involves a. experimental

cosmetics. She wanted to know the preference of b. causal-comparative
cosmetic use among adolescents, young adult, middle c. quasi-experimental
adult and the late adult women. The research design of d. correlational
her study would be: 9. Which of the following researches would be
a. descriptive b. correlational considered as prospective?
c. qualitative d. cohort a. the effects of preschool attendance towards the
2. Freya wanted to know the relationship between the maturity of the first grade students
level of anxiety experienced during examinations and b. the effects of being a working mother towards the
the exam performance among the level 2 student nurses child’s absenteeism
of Colegio San Agustin Bacolod. The type of research c. the effect of stress towards the co-curricular activities
design utilized is: participation of 3rd year students
a. experimental d. the effects of memory enhancers towards the
b. quasi-experimental academic performance of students
c. correlational 10. A quantitative research paper is entitled as “Nursing
d. causal-comparative Model of Care Utilized by Selected Hospitals and its
3. Alfred randomly grouped the participants into two Association with the Performance of Nurses in their
and tested the effects of his new product towards their Area of Assignment”. What is the research design of this
endurance. His study uses this type of research design: study?
a. correlational Discuss
b. survey a. survey
c. experimental b. correlational
d. causal-comparative c. causal – comparative
4. In an event that the researcher wanted to know d. experimental
more about the cause and effect relationship however 11. Probability samples are often considered superior to
the cause already exists and cannot be manipulated, the non-probability samples because they:
type of research design appropriate for this is: a. use randomization that ensures that inferences
a. experimental between samples and their population are as accurate as
b. clinical study possible
c. correlational b. have observations deliberately selected to match the
d. casual-comparative research population which makes it easier to generalize
a. descriptive c. have a larger amount of observations
b. quasi-experimental d. have a smaller amount of observations
c. correlational 12. What type of data is best described as a “snapshot”
D. True Experimental of a population?
6. Tiara wanted to conduct a research that will delve a. Panel data
into knowing the effects of post traumatic stress b. Pre-post data
disorder towards the academic performance of c. Cross section data
teenagers during the first grading of academic year d. Longitudinal data
2012-2013. The type of research design most suited 13. Large-n studies are also known as:
towards her study would be: a. qualitative studies because a large number of
a. causal-comparative observations are needed to make reliable inferences
b. experimental b. quantitative studies because a large number of
c. quasi-experimental observations are needed to make reliable inferences
d. correlational c. qualitative studies because observations are studied in
7. Vincent conducts a study that will further get to know depth to understand why or how phenomena occur
the frequency of scrub cases between the north and d. quantitative studies because observations are studied
south affiliated hospitals of their school. What’s the in depth to understand why or how phenomena occur
type of research design to be used in his study? 14. A company inspects every 50th car on a
a. descriptive manufacturing line in order to carry out quality control.
b. correlational This sample is an example of a:
c. causal-comparative a. simple random sample
d. experimental b. systematic sample
8. Members of the health team introduce a new c. stratified random sample
admission system and wishes to study the efficiency of d. cluster sample
its implementation as compared to the previous 15. Convenience samples are:
admission system which is still being practiced in other a. those to which a researcher has the best access
departments. In this study, it is not feasible to conduct b. those that are expected to produce the strongest
randomization. What type of research design is used? results
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 c. based on a system of referrals
d. based on particular characteristics guiding the 24. What is the confidence level?
inclusion of particular observations a. The probability that the way a confidence interval is
16. Randomization means each potential observation generated from a sample produces a result that contains
has: the true population parameter
a. an equal chance of being included in the research b. The measure of the precision of an estimate of the
study true population parameter
b. an independent chance of being included in the c. The degree of error that is expected between a sample
research study statistic and the population parameter
c. an equal and independent chance of being included in d. The probability that the hypothesis is proved correct
the research study 25. What is an experimental design?
d. properties consistent with the research population a. A design in which the researcher can control the
17. If the margin of error is 3% and the sample mean for assignment of values on an independent variable to test
a particular variable is 80%, the confidence interval its effect on a dependent variable
becomes: b. A design in which the researcher does not have
a. 77%–80% control over the assignment of values within an
b. 80%–83% independent variable
c. 80% c. A design in which the observations included in the
d. 77%–83% study are inherently similar to each other on a number of
18. What is the central characteristic of non-probability important dimensions so that variation in an independent
samples? variable can be used to explain variation in a dependent
a. That they are not based on randomization variable
b. That they usually involve a large number of d. A design in which the observations included in the
observations study are very different from one another, but manifest
c. That they are used in experimental research the same value on the dependent variable under
d. That they are designed to mirror the population as consideration
closely as possible 26. Most similar system and most different system are
19. A characteristic about a research population is called examples of what type of design?
a: a. Quantitative
a. sample statistic b. Qualitative
b. population parameter c. Observational
c. random sample d. Comparative
d. variable 27. What is the set of all possible observations within a
20. What is a research design? particular unit of analysis with particular characteristics
a. A plan that describes how a research question will be in common?
answered a. Research Population
b. A plan that describes what the variables will be b. Research Section
c. A plan that describes what the implications of the c. Research Group
results will be d. Research Collection
d. A plan that describes how to create a theory 28. What is a case study?
21. Which of the following types of research design uses a. An observation of some event or phenomenon in one
numerical measures for a large amount of observations? place, either at one point in time or over multiple points
a. Qualitative research design in time
b. Quantitative research design b. An observation of some event or phenomenon in
c. Experimental research design multiple places or time periods
d. Comparative research design c. An observation in which a relationship between two
22. The unit of analysis refers to the: variables is statistically significant
a. independent variable d. A “snapshot” of the population
b. dependent variable 29. Longitudinal data:
c. general grouping of what is being studied a. involves multiple contacts for the same subjects
d. research hypothesis b. involves multiple contacts for different subjects
23. Which type of analysis is of non-numeric c. involves one contact at one point in time
information for a small number of observations to d. involves one contact for two points in time
produce a conclusion about how and why something 30. Panel data:
happened in a particular way? a. involves multiple contacts for the same subjects
a. Research Analysis b. involves multiple contacts for different subjects
b. Quantitative Analysis c. involves one contact at one point in time
c. Qualitative Analysis d. involves one contact for two points in time
d. Independent Analysis

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