SAMAR COLLEGES, INC.

Mabini Avenue, Catbalogan City

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Basic Education Department

Second Semester, S.Y. 2018-2019

SECOND QUARTER EXAMINATION IN PRACTICAL RESEARCH 2
Direction: Read each question carefully. Choose the letter of the correct answer. Encircle
the letter of your answer.
1. What is the process of acquiring knowledge through a purposive, organized and
designed program of activities?
a. Hypothesis c. Research
b. Inquiry d. Related Literature
2. Which of the following is a function of theory?
a. Making predictions
b. Explaining phenomena
c. Integrating and summarizing current knowledge
d. All of the above are important functions of theory
3. Which of the following best describes quantitative research?
a. Research that is exploratory
b. The collection of non-numerical data
c. Research that attempts to generate a new theory
d. An attempt to confirm the researcher’s hypothesis
4. Which of the following research designs is illustrated when a group of respondents
are randomly selected to undergo a particular research-imposed treatment to
determine the effect of such treatment?
a. Correlation research design c. Experimental research design
b. Descriptive research design d. Historical research design
5. What methods of collecting data that obtains information through an oral exchange
of questions and answers by the researcher and the respondents?
a. Document method c. Observation method
b. Interview method d. Questionnaire method
6. Which of the following is necessary in obtaining informed consent?
a. A description of the purpose of research
b. A description of the reliability and validity of test instruments
c. A description of the statistical analyses that will be carried out
d. A list of publications that the researcher had in the last ten years
7. What research instruments consists of a series of questions (or the other types of
prompts) for the purpose of gathering information from respondents?
a. Bar graph c. Interview
b. Documents and records d. Questionnaire

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8. What is sample size?
a. The result of sampling bias.
b. It is the number of elements in the sample set.
c. Subset of population chosen to participate in the study.
d. Tentative theory regarding the topic under investigation.
9. In which of the following methods does not belong to the group?
a. Interview c. Questionnaire
b. Observation d. Survey
10. What do you call to the process of selecting samples from a target population?
a. Cluster sampling c. Sampling error
b. Probability sampling d. Sampling technique
11. What happens when a sampling bias happens?
a. The response rate will be low.
b. A sampling error would occur.
c. Nothing, everything will remain the same.
d. All of the above.
12. In which of the following descriptions describe stratified sampling technique?
a. It is used when the population is dispersed over a wide geographic region.
b. The target population is divided into strata according to certain predefined
characteristics.
c. An improvement of the random sampling process when a pre-selection system is
in place to complete the randomness of selection process.
d. None of the above.
13. What is Sloven’s formula?
a. n=N/(1+Ne 2) c. n=4 s2
b. n=9s/e 2 d. n=P/e
14. What symbol is used to represent the population?
a. n c. p
b. N d. P
15. Miss Generali is writing her daily observations of a student and writes, without
interpretation, that the student is not completing the class work and is constantly
speaking out of turn. Which of the following objective does she appear to be using?
a. Description c. Explanation
b. Prediction d. Exploration
16. Which of the following is not a method of data collection?
a. Experimentation c. Observations
b. Interviews d. Questionnaires
17. Which is the most common and stable measure of central tendency that is
commonly used by the researchers in analyzing the data gathered?
a. Mean c. Mode
b. Median d. Variance

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18. What data do quantitative methods use to primarily collect?
a. Descriptive c. Visual
b. Numerical d. descriptive and visual
19. Find the sample size required for a population size of 1000 if an error of 0.05 is
tolerated.
a. n=286 c. n=298
b. n=287 d. n=285
20. What theory, principle or model that the researcher chooses to guide him in the
conduct of the study?
a. Qualitative c. Theoretical framework
b. Quantitative d. Conceptual framework
21. What is an educational guess?
a. Inquiry c. Research
b. Hypothesis d. Research questions
22. What percent is 350 represent in 1000?
a. 65% c. 50%
b. 35% d. 30%
23. What is the 65% of 1000?
a. 350 c. 650
b. 450 d. 700
24. What plan calls for the behavior of the sample to follow the behavior of the
population?
a. Experimental plan c. Sampling plan
b. One-way plan d. Two ways plan
25. When can we say that the research topic is good?
a. It involves practices that may harm or affects participants.
b. It holds the researchers interest throughout the entire research.
c. The topic is stated with an effort to determine what should be done.
d. It may not contribute to the improvement or understanding of educational
theory or practice.
26. How would quantitative research work?
a. You talk to the right people.
b. You talk to the right number of people.
c. You ask the right questions to a number of people.
d. You ask the right questions and analyze the data you get in the right way.
27. What is the goal of all scientific endeavor?
a. To compare sources of knowledge
b. To explain, predict and/or control a phenomenon.
c. To entail recognition and definition of a problem.
d. To collect difficult data and make some conclusion.

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28. What is the most common used margin of error in standard research?
a. 0.01 c. 0.1
b. 0.05 d. 0.5
29. Get the sample size given the population 2000 and 0.05 margin of error.
a. 428 c. 571
b. 570 d. 763
30. How to cite an article of a single author in APA style?
a. (Villaflor, 2013) c. (J. Villaflor, 2018)
b. (Year 2013, Villaflor) d. (Jude Villaflor, 2018)
31. How do you describe literature review?
a. It is an account of what has been published by other researchers.
b. It is systematics, explicit and reproducible method for identifying, evaluating and
synthesizing the existing body of completed and recorded work produced by
researchers.
c. Both a and b.
d. Neither a nor b.
32. What research design make use of historical data to predict the behavior of a
variable?
a. Correlational c. Experimental
b. Descriptive d. Historical
33. What method of collecting data obtains information through an oral exchange of
questions and answers by the researcher and respondents?
a. Document method c. Observation method
b. Interview method d. Questionnaire method
34. What quantitative research design uses questionnaires and interview to gather data
about a group of people?
a. Correlational c. Experimental
b. Descriptive d. Historical
35. What is a conceptual framework?
a. Those chosen that are known as the subject of the study.
b. The process of selecting samples from a given population.
c. A tentative theory regarding the topic under investigation.
d. All of the above.
36. Epe and Lozano are known researchers of Catbalogan City, they conducted an
interview through questionnaire as their primary strategy to collect data. What
quantitative research design is manifested?
a. Correlational c. Experimental
b. Descriptive d. Historical
37. A research study entitled “The Effects of integrated care on quality of work in
nursing homes”, what research design is best suited for that research?
a. Causal c. Experimental
b. Correlational d. Historical

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38. Which of the following does not belong to the group?
a. Cluster Random Sampling
b. Snowball Random Sampling
c. Stratified Random Sapling
d. Systematic Random Sampling
39. What is the sample size of; N=250 using a margin of error of 4%?
a. 177 c. 178
b. 178.57 d. 179
40. What is the sample size of; N=250 using a margin of error of 2%?
a. 226 c. 227.27
b. 227 d. 228
41. You as the researcher use secondary sources and a variety of documentary
evidence, such as; logs, diaries, official records, visual recordings and many others.
What research design is manifested?
a. Causal c. Experimental
b. Descriptive d. Historical
42. How to cite an article when two or more articles by authors with the same surname
are cited in the same parenthesis?
a. (E. Babon, 2018; J. Babon, 2017)
b. (Babon & Babon, 2017, 2018)
c. (Erica Babon and Jade Babon, 2017, 2018)
d. (E.B,2017 & J.B,2018)
43. Get the sample size if N=2,399 and e=0.05.
a. 342.8 c. 380
b. 343 d. 399
44. Get the 80% of 3,000.
a. 1,400 c. 2,400
b. 1,700 d. 4,000
45. What represents the sample size?
a. n c. s
b. N d. S
46. What research design would you use in a business environment to quantify the
effect that a change to its present operations will have future production levels to
assist in the planning process?
a. Causal c. Experiment
b. Correlational d. Historical
47. What method of collecting data wherein data is acquired on an actual situation and
recorded through the direct observation by the researcher?
a. Document method c. Observation method
b. Interview method d. Questionnaire method

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48. Researcher C primarily uses questionnaires and interviews to gather data about a
group of people as his study. What quantitative research design is manifested?
a. Causal c. Descriptive
b. Correlational d. Historical
49. After getting the sample size. Thus, get the 35% of 286 for males and 65% for
females. What is the frequency of males and females respectively?
a. 186 and 100 c. 156 and 130
b. 100 and 186 d. 136 and 150
50. In which of the following definitions best defines research?
a. It is an important part of a study.
b. The quest for truth, information or knowledge through questioning.
c. The acquisition of new knowledge through a purposive, organized and designed
program of activities.
d. All of the above.
51. What methods of collecting data may be done face to face or through telephone and
mobile phone?
a. Document method c. Observation method
b. Interview method d. Questionnaire method
52. A group of respondents are randomly selected to undergo a particular research-
imposed treatment to determine the effect of such treatment. What research design
is illustrated?
a. Causal c. Experimental
b. Descriptive d. Historical
53. In a quantitative research method, which means data trustworthiness?
a. Reliability c. Triangulation
b. Validity d. Validity and Reliability
54. How to cite an article with three to five authors using APA style?
a. (Gil, Sy and Lee, 2015) c. (Gil and Lee, 2015)
b. (Lee et.al., 2015) d.(2015, Gil et.al.)
55. In what research does statistical analysis heavily focused in making final report?
a. Ethnographic study c. Qualitative research
b. Phenomenological study d. Quantitative research
56. In descriptive research, which of the following is considered in the questionnaires?
a. Careful selection of variables
b. Validation of the questionnaire
c. Well-defined criterion variables
d. Critical identification of extraneous variables
57. What type of inquiry where relations are established through the collection of
numerical data which are analyzed to derived generalization?
a. Ex-post facto study c. Quasi Research
b. Qualitative Research d. Quantitative Research

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58. What is the sample size of N=3,500 and e=0.01?
a. 259 c. 2,593
b. 260 d. 2,594
59. What research design is best suited to test the research question “Is constructivist
teaching method more effective for increasing students’ mathematics achievement
than traditional teaching method”?
a. Causal c. Historical
b. Experimental d. Survey
60. To test the hypothesis, “Listening to music lowers blood pressure levels”, what
quantitative research design/s would you use?
a. Experimental c. Survey
b. Historical d. Both a and c
61. What is the 38% of 1000?
a. 118 c. 399
b. 380 d. 840
62. If 1% is to 0.01, 100% is to ____.
a. 0.0001 c. 0.1
b. 0.001 d. 1
63. A research which involves the height and weight of the respondents where you
correlate those variables is an example of what research?
a. Causal c. Experimental
b. Correlational d. Historical
64. In which of the following research samples is not an example of historical research?
a. High school graduation diplomas from the 1920s.
b. Essays written by elementary school during the Civil War
c. Attendee record form different school districts over a 40-years old period
d. Effect of romantic relationships to the academic performance of the grade 12 ict
students.
65. What is the most effective method to conduct descriptive research?
a. Document method c. Observation Method
b. Experiment Method d. Survey method
66. What research design would you use if you are about to test the research question:
how does pre-school attendance affect social maturity at the end of the first grade?
a. Causal c. Experiment
b. Correlation d. Historical
67. What is the sample size of N=250 using e=5%?
c. 113 c. 159
d. 154 d. 160
68. What is the subset of population?
a. Respondents c. Sampling frame
b. Sample d. Sample size

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69. What represents the population?
a. n c. p
b. N d. P
70. What is the rate of usable responses?
a. Response rate c. Sampling error
b. Sampling bias d. Population rate

Prepared By:

ROJANE L. ALCANTARA
Subject Teacher

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