Exam Prep Planning a Research Project Chapter.4

Chapter 04 - Planning a research project and developing research questions

Test Bank

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 01

01) You should follow the guidance of this book and not of your institution in doing your dissertation.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 02

02) Starting your research project early is considered good practice.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 03

03) What is the role of a project supervisor?

a. To write the project with the student

b. To provide harsh criticism of the student’s project

c. To advise and guide the student in their project

d. To provide instructions to the student as to what they need to do in their project

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 04

04) A Gantt chart can be used to keep track of your research project

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 05

05) The type of research questions will depend upon which assumptions made about the social world to be studied. Please select all that apply.

a. Ontological

b. Forensic

c. Epistemological

d. Methodological

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 06

06) A research question does not necessarily have to end with a question mark.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 07

07) In considering a research area for your dissertation, you should completely discount personal experiences.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 08

08) A hypothesis is the same as a research question.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 09

09) Which of the following are criteria that research questions for a dissertation or project should meet? Please select all that apply.

• Questions should be clear. They must be understandable to you and to others.
• Questions should be researchable. They should be capable of development into a research design, so that data may be collected in relation to them. This means that extremely abstract terms are unlikely to be suitable.
• Questions should connect with established theory and research. This means that there should be a literature on which you can draw to help illuminate how your research questions should be approached. Even if you find a topic that has been scarcely addressed by social scientists, it is unlikely that there will be no relevant literature (for example, on related or parallel topics). Making connections with theory and research will also allow you to show how your research has made a contribution to knowledge and understanding.
• Questions should be linked to each other. Unrelated research questions are unlikely to be acceptable, since you should be developing an argument in your dissertation. You will not very readily be able to construct a single argument in connection with unrelated research questions.
• Questions should have potential for making a contribution to knowledge. They should at the very least hold out the prospect of being able to make a contribution— however small—to the topic.
• Questions should be neither too broad nor too narrow. The research questions should be neither too large (so that you would need a massive grant to study them) nor too small (so that you cannot make a reasonably significant contribution to your area of study).

a. Questions should be relevant to managers

b. Questions should be researchable

c. Questions should be broad

d. Questions should be neither too broad nor too narrow

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 10

10) Supervisors are not permitted to help students develop their research questions.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 11

11) Planning research projects is not necessary as they are impossible to plan.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 12

12) Your level of interest in the topic isn’t important, what’s more important is that the topic is of interest to your supervisor.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 13

13) You should leave all of the writing until the end of the project when you are ready to write it all up.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 14

14) You shouldn’t pre-commit to one idea, approach, research design, or data source to the exclusion of other possibilities.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 15

15) Following the advice in this book is more important than making your own choices in relation to your research project.

a. True

b. False