Review Questions (09 June 2015)

Business Research Methods course Review Questions  

 (June 2015)

1.    Describe the main content of a business plan.

2.    Describe the difference between exploratory, descriptive and casual researches.

3.    Explain three commonly used methods to determine a sample size from a known population.

4.    What are the factors that contribute to the limitations of a study?  What are the areas to focus  in describing the scope or delimitation of a study?

5.    What is the importance of developing “conceptual framework of a study”? How do the theoretical and empirical research findings help develop such a framework?

6.    How do you test the reliability and validity of a data collection tool before the actual data collection?

7.    Describe the main elements that make up the sampling design of a research.

8.    Provide two examples for each of the  statistical analysis techniques that are used to establish relationships between variables, and compare groups.

9.    Describe the advantages and disadvantages of probabilistic and  non-probabilistic sampling techniques?

10.  Describe type I and type II errors in hypothesis testing. Explain the implication of these two types of errors being inversely related. 
11.Explain the major steps in analyzing qualitative data using Qualitative Content Analysis.

12.  What is the difference between parametric and non-parametric tests? Describe some of the general assumptions that should not be violated to use parametric tests.