Research Design

Client experiences a 12% decline in market share. Since the research agency donʹt know what the problem isʺ the research design they should use is:

• causal

• explanatory

• experimental

• cross-longitudinal

• exploratory

Which of the following is true about research design?

• Research design should be the first consideration in a research project.

• Research design should be selected after thoroughly considering the problem and research objectives.

• Research design should be selected during the initial meeting with a client.

• Research designs should be made after data collection.

Which of the following is the best description of research design?

• set of advance decisions that makes up the master plan specifying the methods and procedures for collecting and analyzing the needed information

• the specific pieces of information are necessary to solve the problem at hand

• set of advance decisions that are made after the data have been collected in order to determine how the data will be analyzed

The various types of research design include:

• exploratory, exploitive, and competitive

• deductive, descriptive, and exploitive

• exploratory, causal, and competitive

• exploratory, descriptive, and causal

If the research objective is to gain background information, it is likely that the most appropriate research design would be:

• exploitive

• exhaustive

• deductive

• exploratory

What type of research is unstructured and informal?

• deductive

• causal

• exploratory

• exploitive

In which of the following situations should exploratory research be used?

• when experimentation is needed

• to define terms

• in situations in which all of the concepts are clearly defined and measured

• to determine how variable x causes variable y

Appropriate methods for conducting exploratory research would include:

• secondary data analysis

• experiments

• sample surveys

• longitudinal research

Small groups of people brought together and guided by a moderator through an unstructured, spontaneous discussion for the purpose of gaining information relevant to the research problem can be categorized under which type of research design?

• exploratory research

• causal research

• deductive research

• exploitive research

Descriptive studies are conducted to:

• Answer in quantitative form who, what, when, where, and how questions

• specify the causality in the problem

• describe previous findings in similar problems