PRACTICE QUESTIONS ON RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

1. What do you mean by research? Discuss about different types of research.

2. Briefly describe different steps involved in a research process.
3. Distinguish between research methods and Research methodology.
4. Describe different types of research clearly pointing out the difference between an
experiment and a survey
5. Write short notes on
a. Design of a research project
b. Research and scientific method
c. Research & decision making
6. What is the importance of literature survey in research?
7. What is the necessity of defining a research problem? Explain.
8. What is a research problem? Describe the main issues which need attention of researchers
in formulating research problem with examples.
9. What is research design? What are the elements of research design?
10. Explain the meaning of the following in the context of Research design:
a. Extraneous variable
b. Confounded relationship
c. Experimental and control groups
d. Research hypothesis
e. Treatments
11. What is sampling design? What are the factors to be considered for sampling design?
12. What are the principles of experimental design?
13. What are the various types of experimental designs? Describe one formal experimental
design explaining how the effect of extraneous variable is controlled.
14. What are different types of sampling designs?
15. What is the difference between cluster sampling and stratified sampling?
16. What do you understand by Sampling and non sampling errors?
17. What are different types of scales? Explain briefly.
18. What are the tests of sound measurement? Describe briefly.
19. What is the process/technique of developing measurement tools?
20. What do you understand by scaling? What are various scale construction approaches?
21. Write short notes on
a. Differential scales
b. Summated scales
22. What the difference between Primary and Secondary data? What methods are employed for
collecting each type of data?
23. What are the characteristics to be looked in secondary data?
24. Write a note on Questionnaire Design.
25. What factors are to be considered by researcher for selecting appropriate method of data
collection?
26. What do you understand by data processing? How to prepare raw data for analysis?
27. What is the difference between descriptive and inferential analysis?
28. What are laws of sampling?
29. What is Central limit theorem? What is its significance in research?
30. What do you understand by
a. Confidence interval
 b. Level of significance
c. Standard error
31. What is sampling theory? How does this help in research?
32. Distinguish between
a. Null and alternative hypothesis
b. One tailed and two tailed test
c. Type-I and Type-II error
d. Acceptance and Rejection region
33. The procedure for testing a hypothesis requires a researcher to adopt systematic steps.
Describe the steps in brief.
34. What is a hypothesis? What characteristics it must possess in order to be considered a good
research hypothesis?