6. Which of the following is a good research question?
a. To produce a report on student job searching behaviours.
b. To identify the relationship between self-efficacy and student job searching behaviours.
c. Students with higher levels of self-efficacy will demonstrate more active job searching behaviours.
d. Do students with high levels of self-efficacy demonstrate more active job searching
behaviours?
7. A review of the literature prior to formulating research questions allows researchers to
a. provide an up-to-date understanding of the subject, its significance, and structure.
b. guide the development of research questions.
c. present the kinds of research methodologies used in previous studies.
d. all of the above.
8. Adopting ethical principles in research means
a. avoiding harm to participants.
b. the researcher is anonymous.
c. deception is only used when necessary.
d. selected informants give their consent.
9. Conclusions based on experimental research depend heavily on
a. nonparametric statistical procedures.
b. random selection of participants from a general population.
c. ruling out alternative hypotheses.
d. large numbers of participants.
10. Plagiarism can be avoided by
a. copying the work of others accurately.
b. paraphrasing the author's text in your own words.
c. cut and pasting from the Internet.
d. quoting directly without revealing the source.