ECN 807 PRACTICE QUESTIONS

1) What is research? How does Research impact development? Give examples

of the impact of Research on Economic Development

2) What is Literature Review? Discuss the importance of literature review in

the research process?

3) Discuss the uses of a questionnaire. What are the important elements in

composing a questionnaire, and how do they assist the researcher in
collecting useful data?

4) What is research philosophy? Discuss ontology and epistemology, their

differences and how these differences help the researcher in defining the
research methods to use.

5) Discuss the different research paradigms, and how each will assist you in
determining the methodology and data collection method to use in your
research

6) How do qualitative and quantitative research differ?

7) Under what circumstances would you want to complement qualitative with

quantitative research, and vice versa? Suggest a research topic that would
necessitate that.

8) What is research design? How is it related to the efficiency of research?

9) How important is it to keep to the ethics of research? Discuss various areas

of research ethics, and how ignoring them can impact on research.

10) Explain the different methods of qualitative data analysis.