RSMT 123 Quiz #2

Determines if the information is directly related to or applicable to the research issue, also if the information is significant, pertinent and important.

• relevance

• reliability

• credibility

• adequacy

Researchers should check if a source’s information has been reviewed and verified by others to ensure:

• adequacy

• credibility

• truthfulness

• quality control

This data collection strategy involves a series of the same questions to eight to ten people in a room together:

• structured interview

• focus group

• panel discussion

• survey

Newspapers, books, magazines, and reports are examples of:

• primary sources

• electronic sources

• empirical data

• print sources

This is one of the criteria for selection and use of data sources in which the data should address the dimensions which the researcher wants to study:

• adequacy

• truthfulness

• validity

• relevance

An in-text citation provides:

• the details about the sources being referred to at the end of the research paper

• the author's name in parentheses in the beginning of the research paper

• acknowledgement of the source of information in the body of the research paper

• all the sources referred to in the study

All the people the researcher can choose from because they have the information needed for a research are known as:

• interviewees

• research sample

• target population

• respondents

A mainstream method of data collection in which the research asks a specific set of questions of a number of members of the target population:

• structured interview

• survey

• participant observation

• focus group

In this situation, the researcher is involved in the activity with the people being studied:

• focus group

• participant observation

• sampling

• non-participant observation

The year that is used in APA style citation is:

• when the work was written

• when the work was accessed by the researcher

• when the work was published

• when the work was edited