UGC NET Paper 1 — Research
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Which of the following methods would be useful for graphically representing the relationship between two variables in a given data?
Which of the following represents the epistemological orientation of qualitative research?
A researcher decides to tell participants something false about a research session in order to mislead them. The researcher is using:
Which of the following would be the main concern of a quantitative research?
If a conclusion incorporates a causal relationship between two or more variables it has measured.
The process of telling research participants of any deception or ruses used in a study, is known as
A quantitative research would be mainly concerned with A. measurement B. causality C. context D. replication Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Identify the main preoccupations of quantitative researchers : (A) Measurement (B) Causality (C) Emphasis on context (D) Generalization Choose the correct answer from the options g...
Which of the following research designs would allow systematic elimination of extraneous variables other than those you are interested in?
Survey research on a single, case with a view to revealing important features about its nature, corresponds to which of the following research designs ?
Which of the following is the most appropriate for measuring the strength and direction of association between two interval/ratio variables?
The tendency of people being observed to act differently than normal as a result of their awareness of being monitored, refers to:
Identify the main preoccupations of qualitative researchers. (A) Emphasis on process (B) Emphasis on generalization (C) Emphasis on context (D) Emphasis on description Choose the c...
Qualitative research is generally associated with-
The principal orientation to the role of theory in relation to research is deductive in which of the following research strategies?
'Code numbers given to the religion of persons' is an example of data on which of the following scales of measurement?
Which of the following represents the epistemological orientation of qualitative research?
which of the following represents the epistemological orientation of quantitative research?
Which of the following is concerned with the question whether the measure of a concept truly represents that concept ?
A researcher conducts a study on a population and obtains some results. He now wants to generalize these results to a different population, For this, his measurements should show
In qualitative research, which of the following criteria is concerned with the question do the findings apply to other contexts?
Which of the following criteria in research relates mainly to the issue of causality?
Which among the following research designs are likely to suffer from the problem of sample attrition? A. Cross-sectional studies B. Longitudinal studies C. Panel studies D. Cohort...
The criterion of 'dependability' in qualitative research parallels which of the following criteria in quantitative research?
Which of the following methods of graphical representation of data would be useful in showing association between two variables ?
An instrument used in structured observation that mentions the categories of behaviour to be observed is known as.
Your measurements should show which of the following validities if you want to generalize the results of your research to a different population?
The criterion of 'credibility' in qualitative research is equivalent to which of the following criteria in quantitative research?
In qualitative research, the criterion of 'credibility' is equivalent to which of the following criteria in quantitative research?
In many studies that span a long period of time, participants in the study may leave. This constitutes which of the following threats to internal validity?
Two researchers obtain similar results while investigating a problem following different methodologies. Their measurements show:
Which of the following types of sampling is likely to have maximum bias ?
Which of the following types of validity is mainly concerned with the issue of causality?
A measure of the consistency of observations of a single situation made by different people refers to.
When the sample has been randomly selected, which among the following may be expected in cross-sectional research designs? A. strong external validity B. weak external validity C....
Qualitative content analysis of documents relating to different time periods corresponds to which of the following research designs?
Which of the following types of sampling is likely to have least bias?
Identify the correct order of the following information about a research article, according to the APA style of writing journal article references. (A) Volume number (B) Year of pu...
If you want to understand the theoretical reasons that led researchers to conduct a study that appeared as a research article in a journal, you would read which of the following se...
Identify the main preoccupations of qualitative researches. A. Generalization B. Description C. Emphasis on context D. Flexibility Choose the correct answer from the options given...
When the characteristic like age, sex or race of the researcher affect the behaviour of a participants in a study, it refers to
Identify the threats to internal validity. (A) Selection threat (B) Maturation threat (C) Attrition threat (D) Testing threat Choose the correct answer from the options given below...
Identify the threats to internal validity associated with participants in a study. (A) Testing threat (B) Selection threat (C) History threat (D) Attrition threat Choose the correc...
Response of participants who are well aware of the fact that they are being studied is considered as.
Identify the correct statements regarding web- based study of human subjects A. It requires considerably more time per person than laboratory based study. B. Data collection occurs...
Identify correct statements about content analysis. A. The main use of content analysis has been in the examination of printed texts and documents. B. Content analysis lacks transp...
विषयवस्तु विश्लेषण के बारे में सही कथनों की पहचान कीजिए : A. विषयवस्तु विश्लेषण का मुख्य उपयोग मुद्रित ग्रंथो और प्रलेखनों की जाँच रहा है। B. विषयवस्तु विश्लेषण में पारदर्शिता का अ...
The approach in which researchers use the existing data to create groups for comparison is called
Identify the correct statements regarding survey research. A. A closed ended question contains a set of answers that a respondent chooses B. Self-Deception Positivity is a from of...
Identify the correct statement about the quantitative content analysis: