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POLSC251 Final Exam - Research Methods in Political Science
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MCQs on some of the basic research tools in the political scientist’s toolkit.

POLSC251 Final Exam - Research Methods in Political Science
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1. Which of the following statements is true of an alternative hypothesis?
2. What is action research?
3. Which of the following statements best represents the goal of the researcher when performing deductive research?
4. Which of the following is an advantage of qualitative research?
5. Why is understanding the unit of analysis you wish to study important?
6. What does a chi-square test of independence tell us?
7. External validity refers to which of the following?
8. What level of measurement is age in years?
9. What type of sample would you have if you started with a subgroup of school districts in the state of New York, and within each subgroup, you selected a simple random sample of schools.Then, within each school, you selected a simple random sample of grade levels, and within each grade level, you selected a simple random sample of students for study?
10. Why may we decide to use more than one method of measurement when specifying a construct?
11. How do researchers assure that research participants are aware that their participation is voluntary?
12. What is a theory?
13. Why might some argue that political science cannot be scientific?
14. What is the mode of the following values: 8, 9, 3, 8, 4, 7, 8, 5, 2?
15. What level of measurement is a Likert scale?
16. Which of the following is a disadvantage of qualitative research?
17. What method would be best to use to test whether people in different regions of the country are equally likely to vote Democratic or Republican in the next election?
18. Most qualitative researchers believe that social reality is embedded within and cannot be abstracted from their social settings.This perspective leads them to believe the best way to understand such reality is what?
19. What is the most frequent problem with case study research?
20. What is a sampling frame?
21. All qualitative research must adhere to a common set of principles.Why does it have a temporal nature?
22. What is a more accurate label for what is commonly called 'qualitative research?'
23. What could we say about a measure if it adequately represents the underlying construct that it is supposed to measure?
24. Which of the following is a weakness of focus group research?
25. What are the three 'Cs' when analyzing historical events?

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