UNIT 3

A questionnaire is a set of fixed format, self report items that is completed by respondents at their own pace. TRUE. FALSE.

„A survey is a series of self report measures, administered through an interview or a written questionnaire. TRUE. FALSE.

It comes out cheaper doing questionnaires than face to face interviews. TRUE. FALSE.

A questionnaire may not produce honest responses to sensitive topics. TRUE. FALSE.

the goal of a survey is to produce a snapshot of opinions, attitudes, behaviours of a group of people at a given time. TRUE. FALSE.

A closed format questionnaire permits respondants formulate their own answers. TRUE. FALSE.

The principles of question design are: reliability and validity. TRUE. FALSE.

There are 5 steps on the designing of a questionnaire: Determine the aims of the questionnaire, select the questionnaire style, Design the questions, revise questions, analyze data and report the results. TRUE. FALSE.

Using words such as all, never and always in a questionnaire is one of the ways to get reliable responses. TRUE. FALSE.

Nominal questionnaire is when questions are formulated to be responded with numerical sequence. TRUE. FALSE.

Response rate is only affected by nature of the sample. TRUE. FALSE.

When deciding on an appropiate question style, you can choose different formats; open format,closed format, nominal level, ordinal level or interval level. TRUE. FALSE.

An open format questionnaire consists of questions where respondents are provided with a number of alternative answers. TRUE. FALSE.

The results of a survey can be used as bases for hypotheses and theories. TRUE. FALSE.

The survey method does not collect information about demograpic characteristics of a population. TRUE. FALSE.

The qualitative research is broadly defined as: " any kind of research that produces findings not arrived at by means of statistical procedures or other means of quantification" (Strauss and Corbin, 1990). TRUE. FALSE.

Qualitative studies are theoretical projects that focus mainly on the questions how much and how frequently. TRUE. FALSE.

Narrative inquiry focuses on revealing aspects of social patterns or observed conduct. TRUE. FALSE.

Qualitative methods are used to gain more in depth information that may be difficult to convey quantitatively. TRUE. FALSE.

The Qualitative Research uses predominantly a deductive approach. TRUE. FALSE.

The purpouse of narrative inquiry is to understand the meaning that people give to experiences. TRUE. FALSE.

Qualitative methods are used to gain new perspectives of things about which much is already now. TRUE. FALSE.

Quantitative research refers to the systematic empirical investigation of social phenomena via statistical, mathematical or computational techniques. TRUE. FALSE.

Ethnography is focused on revealing aspects of social patterns or observed conduct. TRUE. FALSE.

Qualitative methods aren´t used to gain new perspectives on things about which much is already known. TRUE. FALSE.

According to the text researchers approach the task of research base in the Same point of view. TRUE. FALSE.

The quantitative data can be express in numbers. TRUE. FALSE.

An importanta characteristic od the Qualitative Research is that it uses an inductive approach. TRUE. FALSE.

The quantitative research methods: are more likely to tap the deeper meaning of particular human experiences and generate theoretically richer observations that are not easily reduced to number. TRUE. FALSE.

One of the key features of the scientific method is the search for evidence based on observation as the basis for knowledge. TRUE. FALSE.

Ethnography is a descriptionn and interpretation of a cultural or social group or system. TRUE. FALSE.

In sampling, when we are studying a very large group of cases, it is usually not possible to obtain observations of all cases. TRUE. FALSE.

What we are studying a very large group of cases, it is usually possible to obtain observation of all cases. TRUE. FALSE.

Survey research and and text analysis are some methods, among others, to obtain data. TRUE. FALSE.

Tradition: Each one of us inherits a culture that has been passed down of firmly accepted knowledge about the workings of the world. TRUE. FALSE.

Authority: aside from your personal inquiries, throughout your life you will benefit from others' new discoveries and understandings. TRUE. FALSE.

Lazarsfeld suggests three criteria: cause precedes the effect in time, two variables be correlated with another and the empirical relationship cannot be explained away as being due to the influence of some third variable causing both of them. TRUE. FALSE.

Racial and ethnic prejudices depend heavily on this observation for their persistence. It is inaccurate observation?. TRUE. FALSE.

ethics has to do with what is right and wrong in reality not our points of view,it makes people face morality aspects. TRUE. FALSE.

The aim of samplying is to produce a miniature copy of the population. TRUE. FALSE.

Common sense: it makes no sense to think that rainbows cause rainfalls, since ranibows appear only after the rain starts falling, and only when the sun shines during the storm. TRUE. FALSE.

Confidentiality means the researcher is able to identify a given person's responses but essentianly promises not to do so publicly. TRUE. FALSE.

The protection of participants' identities(anonimity and confidentiality) is concerned on the protection of their well-being and interests in the research. TRUE. FALSE.

"Population" is a define group. TRUE. FALSE.

The term 'empirical' refers to the valuing of observation-based evidence. TRUE. FALSE.

Common sense can be rational and accurate, it is an insuficient and highly risk alternative to science as a source of knowledge. TRUE. FALSE.

A survey is useful for verifying results on a large scale. TRUE. FALSE.

User testing is useful for triangulating results. TRUE. FALSE.

The size of a sample plays a big role, because the bigger the sample is the higher the uncertainty is as well. TRUE. FALSE.

A variable that explains or causes something is called the dependent variable. TRUE. FALSE.

Qualitative methods are used to gain more in-depht information which can also be easy to convey quantitatively. TRUE. FALSE.

When we are studying a very large group of cases it is usually not possible to obtain observations of all the cases. TRUE. FALSE.

In a focus group we can not explore how tools are used, but we can if we want to know how it could be used in a novice programming course. TRUE. FALSE.

The term empirical refers to the valuing of observation-based evidence. TRUE. FALSE.

An ethnography is a description and interpretation of a cultural or social group or system. TRUE. FALSE.

The choice of methodology for a research strongly depends on variables such as the objet of study, goals to achieve, researcher skills and beliefs, investment... etc. TRUE. FALSE.

In a study of a sample, you are interested in what happens in general. TRUE. FALSE.

The choice of methodology and methods depends only on reseach questions, research goals, researcher beliefs and values, and researcher skills. TRUE. FALSE.

Qualitative methods are more likely to tap the deeper meaning of particular human experiences. TRUE. FALSE.

The phases within the research process are: Problem formulation, designing the study, data collection, data processing, data analysis, interpreting the finding and writing the report. TRUE. FALSE.