Research design involves deciding upon all the various components of a
research project which includes the following except: * a. Philosophical assumptions b. Approach to migrating data to online c. Approach to writing up d. Plan to publish the findings 2. There are three important requirements in deciding a topic, one of them is not. Which one? * a. Your ability to discard all other issues that may potentially have a bearing on your topic b. Your interest in the topic c. A professor or immediate superior prepared to supervise you d. Your ability to obtain relevant data on the topic 3. After you have chosen a topic and generated a list of potential research questions, the next stage of research design is to choose: * a. Model of qualitative research design b. Data collection technique c. Theoretical framework d. Research method 4. Deductive reasoning is the ability to deduce big chunks of data into parts which: * a. Starts from “top-down” b. Exploratory c. Starts from “bottom-up” d. Starts with empirical data from which the researcher builds a theory 5. One of the characteristics of a deductive research is that it is: * a. Exploratory b. Starts from “bottom-up” c. Starts with empirical data from which the researcher builds a theory d. Confirmatory