Planning for Educational Research & Reviewing Related Literature MCQs
Planning for Educational Research & Reviewing Related Literature MCQs
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Planning for educational research involves crucial steps to ensure the success of the research endeavor. Topics covered in this section include research planning, identifying research questions and objectives, selecting appropriate research designs, and conducting a thorough literature review to inform the research process.
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1: Developing a research plan is the first step, as well as one of the most important steps in the planning stage.
A. True
B. False
2: Primary sources of information are firsthand accounts; they consist of original research.
A. True
B. False
3: Which of the following is considered the final step in doing reconnaissance?
A. Summarizing empirical studies’ results on the topic
B. Going beyond a description of the problem, to explaining why the problem has occurred
C. Reflecting upon the historical context of your school and teaching in that school
D. Describing the situation or problem that you want to change or improve
4: Which of the following is true of a literature review?
A. It is an examination of journal articles, ERIC documents, books, and other sources related to your action research project.
B. It is written with an easy, prescriptive, step-by-step process.
C. It should be written in the form of an annotated list.
D. A literature review should begin with the subtopics related most to your study.
5: Research studies and other types of well-researched articles and manuscripts based on the collection of original data are referred to as ______.
A. Qualitative data
B. Empirical research
C. Quantitative studies
D. Mixed methods research
6: Which of the following is a good guide to use when evaluating your literature review for objectivity?
A. You have reported the most interesting aspects of the topic.
B. You have reported on the positive studies only--those that support your hypothesis or research question(s).
C. You have included research that examines both sides of an issue about your topic.
D. You have too many sources from research studies so you should search for information from other databases, like websites or blogs.
7: Which of the following can be considered a primary source?
A. Original research articles
B. Textbooks
C. Newspaper stories that describe innovations in education
D. Reference books, such as Review of Educational Research
8: Which one of the following statements is true regarding the ERIC database?
A. Two advisory panels provide research, technical, and content expertise, offering recommendations for selecting journals and nonjournal materials for inclusion in the ERIC database.
B. All manuscripts are reviewed by a panel of experts in the field in order to check for quality, accuracy, validity, and overall contribution to the field.
C. Items are housed in a government library.
D. Searching on this database requires a fee.
9: Which of the following is true about using the Internet in the action research process?
A. Reviewing information on the Web can be very useful in identifying or narrowing a topic.
B. All education-related websites can provide reliable information.
C. A general Web search may provide too many sources to read or evaluate.
D. Professional associations also maintain websites and include links to related web pages.
10: The purpose of the literature review is to convey the historical context of the topic, the trends experienced by the topic, how theory has informed practice, and vice versa.
A. True
B. False
11: A literature review is best organized by completing a brief summary of each article that reflects the most important aspects of the study that has relevance to your research topic.
A. True
B. False
12: Examining a health-care issue more thoroughly is considered a main topic area addressed in many action research studies.
A. True
B. False
13: Taking time to examine your own beliefs and to gain a better understanding of the nature and context of your research problem is called ______.
A. Reconnaissance
B. Preliminary data analysis
C. Forming your professional hypothesis
D. Evaluation of research ethics
14: Which of the following best describes the term “Boolean operators?“
A. Abstracts of journal articles published in education
B. Jargon often used in the profession of education
C. Keywords that enable the retrieval of terms in specific combinations
D. Computer programs that organize websites by keywords
15: Brief summary of the contents of a research article, typically including the results and conclusions of the study is known as ?
A. Abstract
B. Concrete
C. Physical
D. Factual
16: Keywords (e. g., AND, OR) that enable the retrieval of terms in specific combinations within searchable _______is known as Boolean operators.
A. Databases
B. Bibliographies
C. Directories
D. None of these
17: The smallest existing database for locating research in education, hosted by the US Department of Education is known as ERIC.
A. True
B. False
18: Studies that are based on the firsthand collection of data, as opposed to those that simply provide an author’s individual opinions and perceptions is known as ________research.
A. Empirical
B. Google Scholar
C. Literature review
D. Primary sources
19: Large database for locating scholarly research in education and other fields, hosted by Google is known as ?
A. Empirical
B. Google Scholar
C. Literature review
D. Primary sources
20: Examination of journal articles, books, research papers, and so on; related to an action research project is known as ?
A. Primary sources
B. Google Scholar
C. Literature review
D. Primary sources
21: ________accounts of original research are known as Primary sources.
A. Firsthand
B. Secondary
C. Both a and b
D. None of these
22: _______database for locating research in education and other fields, including dissertations and theses, hosted by ProQuest.
A. Est is known as ProQuest
B. Large
C. Small
D. Medium
E. None of these
23: Search engines are websites that allow users to search a _____number of web pages by keyword.
A. Vast
B. Miniature
C. Undersized
D. Minor
24: Summaries,______, or interpretations of primary sources of research information is known Secondary sources
A. Compilations
B. Destructions
C. Distributions
D. Factors
Planning for Educational Research & Reviewing Related Literature MCQs
