Model Question Paper

Course: Research Methodology

1. What is the null hypothesis is represented by?

a. H1
b. H2
c. H3
d. H0

2. What is a form of statistical inference that uses data from a sample to draw
conclusions about a population parameter or a population probability distribution?
a. Hypothesis testing
b. Hypothesis training
c. Hypothesis trading
d. Hypo testing

3. What establishes the context of the research study?

a. Findings of the study
b. The background of the study
c. Conclusion
d. Recommendations

4. What kind of material is preserved by archives?

a. Latest
b. Only printed material
c. Historical
d. Current

5. What is the objective of oral history in research?

a. To add to the historical record
b. To add to government documents
c. To add to the newspaper editorial
d. To add to the current record

6. When is the Visual methodology often used?

a. No barriers to communication
b. Mental barriers
c. Language barriers
d. Physical barriers
7. How can selection errors be reduced?
a. Random participation
b. Compulsory participation
c. Discouraging participation
d. Encouraging participation

8. Which sampling error occurs when a sample is selected from the wrong population
data?
a. Population Specification Error
b. Selection Error
c. Sample Frame Error
d. Non-Response Error

9. What are deviations in the sampled values from the values of the true population
emanating from the fact that a sample is not an actual representative of a
population of data?
a. Sampling errors
b. Non-sampling error
c. Null error
d. Negligible error

10. What is stylistics?

a. It is the study of the devices in languages.
b. It is the study of sounds in English
c. It is the study of culture
d. It is the study of grammar.

11. What is the method communication researchers use to describe and interpret the
characteristics of a recorded or visual message?
a. Textual analysis
b. Content analysis
c. Structural analysis
d. Textual Reading

12. What are the outputs of communication?

a. Verbal duel
b. Messages produced by communicators
c. Transcripts of communication
d. Verbatim communication
13. Which research is a research-to-action approach that emphasizes direct
engagement of local priorities and perspectives?
a. Ethnography research method
b. Participatory Research
c. Oral history
d. Participating

14. In which type of research the researchers investigate a phenomenon or event by

describing and interpreting participants’ lived experiences?
a. Phenomenological Research
b. Grounded Theory
c. Narrative Research
d. Quantitative Research

15. In which type of research, the researchers examine how stories are told to
understand how participants perceive and make sense of their experiences?
a. Phenomenological Research
b. Grounded Theory
c. Narrative Research
d. Quantitative Research

16. What is a process which examines sample responses to individual test items
(questions) in order to assess the quality of those items and of the test as a whole
known as?
a. Test analysis
b. Item analysis
c. Focus analysis
d. Feature analysis

17. What is the statistical study of data where multiple measurements are made on
each experimental unit?
a. Bivariate
b. Monovariate
c. Trivariate
d. Multivariate analysis

18. What is ANOVA?

a. Analysis of Virtue
b. Analysis of Vice
c. Analysis of Variance
d. Analysis of Variety
19. The different conditions under which experimental and control groups are put up
usually referred to as what?
a. Cure
b. Medicine
c. Result
d. Treatment

20. Which hypothesis is donated as H1 or HA?

a. Null
b. Directional hypothesis
c. Alternative Hypothesis
d. Casual Hypothesis

21. What pinpoints exactly what the researcher wants to find out in the work?
a. Research hypothesis
b. A research question
c. A research problem
d. A research outcome

22. What is based in observation and analysis of more than one statistical outcome
variable at a time?
a. Bivariate analysis is
b. Multivariate analysis is
c. Trivariate analysis is
d. Monovariate

23. Which of the following is not a tool for data collection?

a. Interview
b. Focus Group
c. Survey
d. Reports

24. Which scale allows the participant to make a range of possible responses, usually
in the form of a five-point scale, ranging from strongly agree, agree, undecided, to
disagree, and strongly disagree?
a. Likert Scale
b. Throndite scale
c. Conch scale
d. Anova Scale
25. What does SNIP stand for?
a. Source Normalized Impact per Publisher
b. Source Normalized Impact per Publication
c. Source Normalized Impact per Page
d. Source Normalized Impact per Paper

26. Which type of journals are deceptive, money making practised by unscrupulous,
unscrupulous publisher?
a. Predatory Journal
b. Preparatory journal
c. Blind-peer reviewed journal
d. Peer-reviewed journal

27. Which of the following is NOT considered when editing a research paper?
a. Grammatical errors.
b. Bibliography
c. Redundancy and repetition.
d. Ambiguous phrasings

28. Which of the following is NOT a step in the writing process?

a. Pre-writing
b. Editing
c. Summarising
d. Drafting

29. Which is one of the major international organizations on research and publication
ethics?
a. COPE
b. MOPE
c. LOPE
d. ROPE

30. Which of the following is not a type of plagiarism?

a. Paraphrasing plagiarism
b. Inaccurate authorship
c. Accurate authorship
d. Mosaic plagiarism