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GROUP 1

1. a) Briefly describe the different steps involved in a research process.


b) What are the techniques involved in defining a research problem?
c) Identify the study design from the perspective mentioned in the brackets.
Also justify your answer:
Study population is visited a number of times, usually over a long period.
(Based on number of contacts)

GROUP 2
2. a) What are the important concepts relating to research design? Explain.
b) What do you mean by ‘Sample Design’? What points should be taken
into consideration by a researcher in sample design for any research project?
c) Identify the study design from the perspective mentioned in the brackets.
Also justify your answer:
A study that investigates a phenomenon that has happened in the past.
(Based on reference period)

GROUP 3
3. a) What are the classifications of measurement scales? Explain with
examples.
b) Enumerate the different methods of collecting data giving one example
each.
c) Identify the study design from the perspective mentioned in the brackets.
Also justify your answer:
A study design in which relationship is studied starting from the cause to
establish the effects. (Based on the nature of the investigation)

GROUP 4
4. a) What are the important steps of data preparation process? Explain in detail.
b) Discuss about measures of central tendency and how they are useful in any
research work.
c) Identify the study design from the perspective mentioned in the brackets.
Also justify your answer:
A study of the physical and emotional growth pattern of the group of
children who were born in January, 2001. (A design used in quantitative
research)
GROUP 5
5. a) Explain how sampling and statistical inference are useful for any research
work.
b) What is testing of hypothesis? Explain how it is useful for illustrating a
research problem with two examples.
c) Identify the study design from the perspective mentioned in the brackets.
Also justify your answer:
A design in which the researcher lives in the situation he/she wants to study.
(A design used in qualitative research)

GROUP 6
6. a) Explain the difference between two group discriminant analysis and
multiple discriminant analysis with examples.
b) What is cluster analysis? Explain the difference between hierarchical
clustering and non-hierarchical clustering.
c) With suitable examples define the followings:
independent variable, dependent variable, extraneous variable, intervening
variable.

GROUP 7
7. a) Distinguish between External consistency procedures and Internal
consistency procedures as methods to determine the reliability of an instrument in
quantitative research.
b) Imagine a situation where your friend has to undertake a research study and
she is facing problems in identifying specific research problem. What steps should
she follow to select and narrow down a subject area that could become the basis of
a research problem in her study?
c) Distinguish between 'type I' and 'type II' error.

GROUP 8
8. a) Describe any five factors that affect the reliability of a research
instrument.
b). There are many ethical issues to consider in relation to the participants in
a research activity. Discuss any three such ethical consideration.
c) Distinguish between qualitative approach and quantitative approach of
research.

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