Research Report Conclusion Quiz

What is meant by a type of inferential or interpretative thinking that derives its validity, truthfulness, or reasonableness from your sensory experience?

• Analysis

• Findings

• Conclusion

• Recommendations

Which tense of the verb when you write your conclusions?

• Future perfect tense

• Past tense

• Future tense

• Present tense

How many conclusions will you write if there are four specific problems?

• Five

• One

• Four

• Six

What would the researcher do if the recommendation in one sub-problem applies to the others?

• Disintegrate them in one conclusion

• Integrate them into an abstract

• Interpret them as concrete findings

• Lump them in one paragraph

Why must the researcher be careful in stating the recommendations?

• Because they may appear as the importance of the study

• Because they may be a threat to validity

• Because there may be an error in the hypothesis

• Because they may be a threat to the sampling procedure

What is the purpose of the conclusion in a research report?

• It contains a useful review of the relevant literature

• It explains how concepts were operationally defined and measured

• It outlines the methodological procedures that were employed

• It summarizes the key findings about the research questions

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a good conclusion?

• Discuss the researcher's assumptions and ideas about the topic under study

• Have a structure that brings back what the research set out to do

• Makes logical links between the various parts of the arguments starting from the hypothesis

• There should be textual and tabular presentations of data

Where should a research paper's overall conclusion first seen by a reader?

• Abstract

• Conclusion

• Introduction

• Theory and hypothesis

Which should provide recommendations of how other researchers could improve on research be included?

• Conclusion

• Methods and Data

• References

• Results and Discussion

Which of the following is NOT one of the three main points you should include in your conclusion?

• Containing a discussion of how the findings from the research can be generalized to other cases.

• Creating a new control variable that will alter the findings in order to conform to your hypothesis

• Providing the reader an idea of how the research could have been improved and if new questions based on the research findings have emerged.

• Reiterating whether or not you were able to support your hypotheses with the data you collected and analyzed with either the quantitative or qualitative analyses