Answer Options:
qualification rate
qualification percentage
incidence rate
response rate
none of the above
Answer: incidence rate
Question: The “yes-sayer” has a persistent tendency to respond in the affirmative regardless of the question, and “yes-saying” implies that the responses are not ______.
Answer Options:
Correct
Valid
Reliable
Reported
Answer: Valid
Question: What does the p stand for in the confidence interval formula for sample size?
Answer Options:
estimated percentage of the population
actual percentage of the population
Answer: estimated percentage of the population
Question: For a 95% confidence level, z = _______.
Answer Options:
2.58
2.33
1.96
1.99
1.96
Answer: 1.96
Question: Exploratory research is often undertaken to help clarify define a problem.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which of the following best describes research objectives?
Answer Options:
When achieved, they provide a clear picture of the problem.
When achieved, they provide a basis for future research.
When achieved, they provide the necessary information to solve the problem at hand.
When achieved, the researcher may go on to the next step in the research process.
When achieved, they provide a basis for secondary data research.
Answer: When achieved, they provide the necessary information to solve the problem at hand.
Question: The relationship between sample size and sample accuracy is that as sample size increases:
Answer Options:
Sample error decreases.
Sample error increases.
Sample error remains constant.
Sample error becomes uncertain.
None of the above; sample size does not affect sample accuracy.
Answer: Sample error decreases.
Question: The ______ is the entire group under study as specified by a research project.
Answer Options:
population
sample frame
consumable sample
total sample
none of the above
Answer: population
Question: Primary data refers to information that has already been collected.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: Researchers can tabulate quantitative data.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which of the following deals with the role of MIS?
Answer Options:
determine decision makers’ information needs
specify the needed information
distribute information to the decision makers in a form in which they can use it for decision making
distribute information to the decision makers at a time when they can use it for decision making
all of the above
Answer: all of the above
Question: “Metric” means:
Answer Options:
an instrument used for measuring conceptual, non-objective properties.
the answer to a question is a number that expresses some quantity of the property being measured.
the answer to a question is a number that does not express some quantity of the property being measured.
Answer: the answer to a question is a number that expresses some quantity of the property being measured.
Question: Which of the following is a type of research design?
Answer Options:
Causal
Exploratory
Descriptive
both A and B
A, B, and C
Answer: A, B, and C
Question: For a 95% confidence level, z = ____.
Answer Options:
2.58
2.33
1.96
1.99
1.65
Answer: 1.96
Question: ______ is the identification of code values that are associated with the possible responses for each question on the questionnaire.
Answer Options:
Data entry
Data coding
Data retrieval
Data filing
Data surveying
Answer: Data coding