101. Panel and cohort designs differ, in that:?

Cohort studies involve quantitative research, whereas panel studies are qualitative

A panel study does not need rules to handle new entrants to households

Only a cohort study will suffer from sample attrition

A panel study can distinguish between age effects and cohort effects, but a cohort design can only detect ageing effects

102. Which of the following requirements for a dissertation may depend on your institution?

Whether an abstract should be included

The format for referencing

The word limit

All of the above

103. The role of a project supervisor is to:?

Make sure you keep to your schedule and deadlines

Provide intellectual support, guidance and critical feedback

Negotiate access to the research setting on the student's behalf

Give you a reading list

104. You can manage your time and resources best, by:?

Working out a timetable

Finding out what resources are readily available to you

Calculating a budget for likely expenditure

All of the above

105. Which of the following should be included in a research proposal?

Your academic status and experience

The difficulties you encountered with your previous reading on the topic

Your choice of research methods and reasons for choosing them

All of the above

106. Which of the following should you think about when preparing your research?

Your sample frame and sampling strategy

The ethical issues that might arise

Negotiating access to the setting

All of the above

107. What can you do to ensure your physical safety during your research?

Be alert to the possibility of exposure to danger

Avoid interviewing alone in the respondent's residence

Make sure someone knows where you are and how you can contact them in an emergency

All of the above

108. What practical steps can you take before you actually start your research?

Find out exactly what your institution's requirements are for a dissertation

Make sure you are familiar with the hardware and software you plan to use

Apply for clearance of your project through an ethics committee

All of the above

109. It is helpful to use a multi-stage cluster sample when:?

The population is widely dispersed geographically

You have limited time and money available for travelling

You want to use a probability sample in order to general the results

All of the above

110. What is EndNote?

A bibliographical management software package designed

To help you to organize bibliographic references

Create a bibliography

All are corrects

111. According to their website, you will be able to, so what do you get with EndNote?

Search bibliographic databases on the Internet

Organize references, images, PDFs and other files

Watch the bibliography and figure list appear as you write!

Collaborate using EndNote Web, the Web-based research and writing component of EndNote

112. On completion of this tutorial you should be able to better create and manage EndNotes libraries. You will acquiring the ability to:?

Create EndNote libraries and enter references in them by typing.

Search for and add references by connecting to remote databases through the internet.

Import references from downloaded files into EndNote.

Use EndNote with Microsoft Word to create and format citations

All are corrects

113. Bibliographical information is related to …?

Details concerning a publication

Information about library timings

Information about the number of books in a library

Details about circulation statistics

114. Adding References, there are … ways of adding references to your library:?

Type in references manually

Import bibliographic details from a PDF

Import references automatically from an online database

All are corrects

115. SPSS stands for which of the following?

Statistical Package for the Social Sciences

Statistics Problems Solved Smart

Simple Package for Science Statistics

Simple Program for Statistics and Science

116. Conducting analyses in SPSS is often more accurate than doing them by hand because _.?

Computer packages can handle more numbers than the human brain

Some analyses are only possible with computers

Errors frequently occur when computing statistics by hand

You can only compute statistics by hand on small data sets

117. SPSS will recognize which of the following mistakes?

Incorrect type of variable selected

Incorrect data entered

Incorrect statistical test selected

Incorrect form of instructions

118. You have installed SPSS on your personal computer. In which of the following places will you ALWAYS find the SPSS icon?

In the Programs menu

On a CD Rom

On the desktop

On a floppy disk and on your USB stick

119. You select File from the procedures across the top of the SPSS Data Editor. The three dots after Save As... Mean which of the following?

A further submenu will appear when this option is chosen

A dialogue box will open when this option is chosen

This option cannot be chosen at present

There are three further steps after selecting this option

120. What is the purpose of the toolbar in SPSS?

To list procedures not included in the procedures across the top of the Data Editor

To explain procedures more fully than in the procedures across the top of the Data Editor

To remind the researcher to perform certain procedures, e.g. Save regularly

To display all the statistical analyses available

To enable procedures to be carried out without going to the options and selecting the appropriate procedure

121. Which of the following sources can data entered in SPSS NOT come from?

123. Which of the following methods would you use to enter data on gender into SPSS so you could conduct statistical analyses?

Type male or female into the appropriate column of the data view

Type M into the appropriate column for male participants and F for female participants

Enter data for male participants into SPSS first, then data for female participants second

Numerically code male and female with different numbers

124. Which of the following is the best way to deal with missing data?

Leave the cell where data is missing blank

Only enter data for cases where you have a complete data set

Use numbers not used elsewhere to represent different kinds of missing data

Remove variables where data is missing

125. How is the active cell denoted in the Data View window?

Highlighted in blue

With a flashing frame

Highlighted in red

With a bold frame

126. Which of the following aspects of a variable CANNOT be defined in the Variable View window?

Value labels

Measurement

Maximum and minimum values

Number of decimal places

128. Which of the following is the name given to the record of procedures conducted by SPSS which appears first in the Output Viewer?

SPSS commands

Syntax commands

Command file

Analysis commands

129. When should the type of measure used be defined in SPSS?

When you intend to graph nominal variables

When you intend to graph ordinal variables

When you intend to graph interval variables

At all times

130. The data from each row in a coding schedule can be entered into a quantitative analysis computer program called:?

Endnote

N-Vivo

Outlook

SPSS

131. In which section of the SPSS output will you find the chi-square analysis?

Between group comparisons

Within group comparisons

Anova

Test statistics box

132. In Data View:?

The scores from each group occupy a separate column

Information about group membership is contained in the column headings

There is no information about group membership that is supplied by the user when completing dialogs for the appropriate procedures

Information about group membership is carried in a column (or columns) containing arbitrary code numbers

133. The Measure column in Variable View is used to specify?

Whether the variable is scale (or continuous), ordinal or nominal

Whether the variable is of the numeric or the string type

The name of the dependent variable

The number of places of decimals to which values are expressed in Data View

134. In Variable View, the Values column:?

Specifies the number of decimal places to which the numbers in Data View are displayed

Is used to specify the level of measurement

Specifies whether the data in Data View left, centre or right aligned

Enables meaningful labels to be attached to the different values of a grouping variable

135. The Means procedure is to be found in the?

Compare Means menu

Descriptive Statistics menu

Reports menu

Tables menu

136. For the Means procedure to run, the data in Data View:?

Need not contain a grouping variable

Must be nominal data

Must contain a grouping variable

Must be in the form of ranks

137. In Variable View, the Decimals column:?

Is operative only when scientific notation is specified

Allows the user to set the number of places of decimals to which each value in Data View will be displayed

Is inoperative when a numeric variable is specified

Allows the user to set the number of places of decimals to which each value in the output will be displayed

138. When the user is entering Value Labels (in the present case, Males and Females) in the dialog box below:?

A letter such as M must be in lower case, I.e. m

A letter such as M cannot be used in the Value panel

The first label must be the value 1

The letter M is an acceptable value for specifying a male

139. In the part of Data View shown below:?

Icon number 3 is used to find a particular value label

Icons number 1 and 2 are for displaying and magnifying value labels

Icon number 4 is for saving the data file

The display numbered 5 is the cell where control is currently located

140. In the part of Data View shown in the previous question:?

Icon number 1 is for finding a particular value label

Icon number 2 is for displaying value labels

Icon number 4 is for saving the data file

Icon number 3 is for weighting the cases

141. In the part of Data View shown above:?

Icon number 4 is for displaying value labels

Icon number 1 is for finding a particular value label

Icon number 2 is for weighting the cases

Icon number 3 is for saving the data file

142. In the part of Data View shown above:?

Icon number 1 is for displaying value labels

Icon number 2 is for finding a particular value label

Icon number 3 is for saving the data file

Icon number 4 is for weighting the cases

143. The operations known as copying and pasting:?

Can only be carried out in Variable View

Cannot be implemented in the Output Viewer

Can only be carried out in Data View

Can be carried out in both Variable View and Data View

144. The Means... Procedure for computing the mean score of each of several groups is found in:

The Reports menu

The Compare Means menu

The Tables menu

The Descriptive Statistics menu

145. Which of the following could NOT be included in a survey design?

Random sampling

Panel design

Manipulation of variables

Measurement of variables

146. Which of the following sources can data entered in SPSS NOT come from?

147. The first stage of coding qualitative data is referred to as?

Open coding

Axial coding

Selective coding

None of these

148. What will normally be the last of the following sections to be written?

Abstract

Literature review

Results

Conclusion

149. What should be the content of an abstract?

The topic under examination and the research question or hypothesis

The topic under examination, the research question or hypothesis, objectives, and methods of the study

The topic under examination, the research question or hypothesis, objectives and a brief résumé of the conclusions

The topic under examination, the research question or hypothesis, objectives, and methods of the study,a brief résumé of the conclusions

150. What should not be included in the introduction?

The aim of the research

A statement justifying the importance of the research

An indication of the key findings

An outline of the structure of the report

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