UGC Research

1. When a citation includes more than ____ authors, only the surname of the first author is cited followed by et al. a.  3 b.  4 c.  5 d.  6 2. When referencing other works you have cited within the text of the report you should a.  State the first and last name of the…

1. The number of police officers and the number of crimes are positively related.  This relationship is: a.  A causal relationship b.  A direct relationship c.  A probabilistic causal relation d.  A spurious relationship 2. A research studies the relation between early reading and later school achievement. She decides that a potentially extraneous variable in…

1. According to the typology used in your text, research in which quantitative and qualitative techniques are mixed in a single study is specifically called: a. Mixed research b. Mixed method research c. Mixed model research d. Multimethod research 2. According to the typology used in your text, research in which quantitative and qualitative approaches…

1. According to your text, how many points should a rating scale have? a. Five b. Four c. Ten d. Somewhere from 4 to 11 points 2. What is the problem(s) with this set of response categories to the question ΓÇ£What is your current age?ΓÇ¥ 1-5 5-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 a. The categories are not…

There are two aspects of algorithmic performance: Time – Instructions take time. – How fast does the algorithm perform? – What affects its runtime? Space – Data structures take    space – What kind of data structures can be used? –        How does choice of data structure affect the runtime? Algorithms can not be compared by…

International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD): In 1961, at the International Conference on Cataloguing Principles held in Paris, stress was laid on the need of standardization in bibliographic description. To solve the problem, International Meeting on Cataloguing Expert (ICME) was sponsored by IFLA and held in Copenhagen in 1969. The meeting formed a committee to study…

1. Which of the following symbols represents a population parameter? a.  SD b.  s c.  r d.  0 2. If you drew all possible samples from some population, calculated the mean for each of the samples, and constructed a line graph (showing the shape of the distribution) based on all of those means, what would…

Hypotheses: An investigator cannot enter in any field with a blank mind. Normally he or she begins the task of investigation with some ideas about the subject matter vaguely formulated. Having thus entered the field of investigation, he or she proceeds to find out whether these ideas what he or she has conceived are true…

1. A researcher was interested in studying why the ΓÇ£new mathΓÇ¥ of the 1960s failed. She interviews several teachers who used the new math during the 1960s. These teachers are considered: a.  Primary sources b.  Secondary Sources c.  External critics d.  Internal critics 2. The process of dealing with concerns over the authenticity of a…

1. Analysis of covariance is: a.  A statistical technique that can be used to help equate groups on specific variables b.  A statistical technique that can be used to control sequencing effects c.  A statistical technique that substitutes for random assignment to groups d.  Adjusts scores on the independent variable to control for extraneous variables…