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1. Categorical variables are variables expressed in categories and they consist of ....... and ....... variables.
2. All the following software are suitable for secondary data analysis except ...
3. Richard, research assistant at ROK Research Consult, has been tasked to undertake business research to generate a body of knowledge about how to solve problems that could be occurred in organisations. What kind of business research is Richard undertaking?
4. Madam Fiati intends to conduct business research to examine the effect of sustainable procurement practices on sustainable performance of 'It is Well Limited". What type of business research is suitable for this study?
5. Rahmatu, a distance student of the University of Cape Coast, intends to select a number of study units from a defined study population. What technique is suitable for adoption?
6. Which of the following is not among the several guidelines researchers follow to ensure that they derive optimum benefits from the acquisition or usage of ICT for research?
7. Which of the following is not a reason for analysing data in business research?
8. The type of validity is identified by the strong relationship between the scores obtained from two different methods of measuring the same construct is termed as ...... validity.
9. The type of inferential statistics that is used to analyse whether the mean of two groups is the same or different on a continuous variable is known as .....
10. The type of test conducted to ascertain whether there is a significant difference between expected values and the observed values in one or more categories is known as ....
11. Ethics relate to morale choices affecting decisions, standards and behaviour. Some of the important ethical considerations include?
I. Gaining informed consent to participate in the research study
II. Honesty and discouraging deception
III. Maintaining subjectivity during data collection
IV. Respecting confidentiality and anonymity of data
12. Which" of the following is not a measure of central dispersion in business research?
13. Nipa Ny3, research manager of Nifa Company Ltd, wants to collect data for quantitative research he has been tasked to conduct. The following are the guidelines he should consider in constructing a good questionnaire for his research.
I. Avoid leading questions
II. Avoid single-barrelled questions
III. Use simple and clear language
IV. Use unwarranted assumptions
14. Research report tells you, your research supervisor and a reviewer about what you intend to do; how you plan to proceed and why you selected the strategy.
15. Theory is a formal and logical explanation of some events that include predictions of how things relate to one another.
16. The type of observation that takes place if the researcher observes the behaviour of a group of respondents after an external force is introduced or removed is termed as ......
17. What type of sampling procedure is appropriate for quantitative research?
18. To establish ....... the researcher needs to show that measures that should not be related in theory are indeed not related in the study.
19. The exploratory research design is a type of design that uses a set of scientific methods and procedures to collect raw data and create data structures to describe exiting characteristic (e.g., attitude, intentions, purchase behavior).
20. With this type of observation, the researcher observes the behaviour of a group of respondents after an external force is introduced or removed.
