Beginning the Research Process and Developing Research MCQs

Beginning the Research Process and Developing Research MCQs

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1: ______ is a collection of information (of any type) stored on an electromagnetic medium that can be accessed and examined by certain computer programs.

A.   Electronic databases

B.   Manual databases

C.   Digital databases

D.   None of above

2: A systematic examination and interpretation of the literature for the purpose of informing further work on a topic is called literature review

A.   True

B.   False

3: The association, dependence, or covariance of the values of one variable with the values of another is known as

A.   Friendship

B.   Relationship

C.   Love

D.   All of above

4: Search engine is a ______ program that visits web pages on the internet and looks for those containing particular directories or words

A.   Computer

B.   Manual

C.   Physical

D.   Actual

5: Which of the following words best describes a good political science research question?

A.   Stoic

B.   Sardonic

C.   Philosophical

D.   Observable

6: Which of the following characteristics are most closely associated with a proper research question for an empirical political science research project?

A.   The questions address a political phenomenon

B.   The question is concerned with discrete facts

C.   The question is focused on reaching normative conclusions

D.   The question addresses human behavior

7: One of the first tasks when developing a research question is limiting the scope of the investigation into something manageable.

A.   True

B.   False

8: Association, dependence, and covariance are all examples of a ______.

A.   Literature review

B.   Research question

C.   Relationship

D.   Hypothesis

9: A research question should be limited to discrete or narrow factual issues.

A.   True

B.   False

10: The New York Times is an example of a scholarly source that can be used in a literature review.

A.   True

B.   False

11: The peer-review process helps prevent the spread of misleading and exaggerated claims.

A.   True

B.   False

12: Which of the following sources are most likely to be found using an Internet search engine like Google?

A.   Scholarly

B.   Nonscholarly

C.   Personal

D.   Impersonal

13: The text suggests that once you have identified references for inclusion in a literature review you can then begin to explain the base of knowledge. The base of knowledge can be defined as what we know about a topic from previous work.

A.   True

B.   False

14: Which of the following is a suggested shortcut for quickly collecting resources from the scholarly literature?

A.   Reading the footnotes in the source

B.   Reading the entire article

C.   Reading only the first few pages of a potential source

D.   Choosing the first ten sources you find with a browser search