Define your research question: Clearly state the question or problem you want to investigate. For example, "What factors influence the adoption of renewable energy sources in developing countries?"

1. 1. Research is a careful and systematic study and
investigation in some field knowledge. To be so, it
involves:
A. Defining conditions that need corrective measures and
thorough analysis of its background and its references.
B. Finding out the workability of previous researches and
their current relevance.
C. Verifying and refuting existing conditions and
presenting their background effects.
D. Discovering new concepts, presenting data, facts, and
information and analyzing background effects.

2. 2. Which problem statement below is quantitative
research?
A. A teacher surveys all students about their food
preference for the new school canteen.
B. A researcher interviews the principal to find out the joys,
challenge, and triumphs in running a rural school.
C. The researcher believes that the world is complex and
that no single variable or number can accurately describe it.
D. A researcher wanted to find out the challenges encountered
by the teachers and students in the new normal situation.

3. 3. This characteristic of quantitative
research which refers to its necessity to
come up to a more reliable data analysis.
A. Large Sample Sizes C.Numerical Data
B. Replication D. Objective

4. 4. Which of the following types of research
seeks to examine the findings of a study by
using the same design but a different
sample is and it also strengthen the
foundations of past researches?
A. An exploratory study C. An empirical study
B. A replication study D. Hypothesis testing

5. 5. The following are quantitative
variables, EXCEPT:
A. Brand of cellphone used
B. Degree of student’s happiness
C. Amount of cash in your pocket
D. Distance traveled by a car in kilometers

6. 6. Which of the following illustrates a
quantitative study?
A. Attributes to malnutrition in children
B. Opinion of the public to the negligence of
the Pres. in our country
C. Academic performance of high school
students
D. All of the above choices

7. 7. People inclined to doing quantitative
research wants to discover the truth in
__________.
A. an exact manner C. a careful way
B. an indirect way D. a personal way

8. 8. Quantitative research presents research
findings in this manner:
A. Many prefer to study with textbook.
B. Students finds textbook unnecessary in their
studies.
C. Perhaps, 30% consider textbook unnecessary
in their studies.
D. Out of 100 senior high school students, 90 of
them find textbooks beneficial to their studies.

9. 9. What is the research design?
A. A way of conducting research that is not
grounded in theory.
B. The choice between using quantitative and
qualitative methods.
C. The style in which you present your
research findings.
D. The framework of every stage of collection
and analysis of data.

10. 10. What is the goal of descriptive statistics?
A. Generalize from a sample to a population
B. Provide insight into people’s perceptions
and beliefs
C. Describe the responses of the study sample
D. Quantify the relationship between two
variables

11. 11. A researcher looks for the relationship
between students’ standardized test
scores and their household income in a
particular city. Her data can be described
as _____.
A. Correlational C. Ex -post facto
B. Experimental D. Survey

12. 12. In an experiment, the group that
does not receive the intervention is
called:
A. The experimental group
B. The control group
C. The participant group
D. The treatment group

13. 13. If you were wanting to determine the
relationship that exist between two
variables which research method would
you use?
A. Descriptive
B. Experimental
C. Quasi-Experimental
D. Correlation

14. 14. Which of the statement below is for
descriptive re NOT TRUE search?
A. describes the nature of a situation or an event
B. presents the profile of persons, events, and
things
C. describes past situations
D. there is no manipulation of variables or
search for cause and effect related to the
performance

15. 15. Identify what type of research is being described
on the given statements. “Examining the academic
achievement of two groups, one that goes to tutoring
and one that doesn't. Here the groups already existed,
they either attended tutoring or not and were placed
in groups based on this pre-existing condition.”
A. descriptive research
B. causal-comparative research
C. correlational research
D. experimental research

16. 16. Identify what type of research is being
described on the given statements. “How
does self-esteem differ among adolescents
who differ in the timing of their puberty?”
A. descriptive research
B. causal-comparative research
C. correlational research
D. experimental research

17. 17. What is correlation?
A. It is the causal relationship between two
variables.
B. It is the association between two
variables.
C. It is the proportion of variance that two
variables share.
D. It is a statistical method that can only be
used with a correlational research design.

18. 18. "Students taught first aid by
programmed instruction will achieve at a
higher level than those taught first aid by
the traditional method." The independent
variable in this hypothesis is:
A. Students
B. level of achievement
C. programmed instruction
D. method of instruction

19. 19. A mediator or intervening variable is:
A. responsible for the relationship
between two other variables.
B. another name for the dependent
variable.
C. another name for the independent
variable.
D. All of the above

20. 20. It is called dependent variable because the _______
A. scores on this variable are hypothesized to depend on,
and vary with, the value of the independent variable
B. the outcome of an experiment is hypothesized to
depend on the effect that this variable has on the
independent variable
C. scores on this variable can be expected not to vary in
an experiment
D. scores on this variable depending on how they are
manipulated by the researcher

21. 21. No organization, big or small, will
approve or implement any program or
action without a well-done research
backed up by valid and reliable ______
from a research.
A. imagination C. findings
B. questionnaire D. hypothesis

22. 22. All of the following are correct about research
title EXCEPT:
A. It reflects the topic of investigation.
B. It is a research problem or inquiry in capsule
form.
C. It is a tentative statement about the relationship
between two or more variables.
D. It is a product of real-world observations,
dilemmas, wide reading, selective viewing,
meaningful interactions, and deep reflections.

23. 23. Which of the following are specific topics
from which you can draw your research titles?
A. Tourism Industry in the Philippines
B. Tourism Industry in Mindanao
C. Effects of Tourism Industry Ito Indigenous
People in Palawan
D. National Tourism and Its Effects on the
Economy of the Philippines

24. 24. Which of the following are good research
titles?
A . Modules in Distance Learning
B. Effectiveness of Modules in Distance
Learning
C. The Use of Modules in the Distance
Learning
D. Distance Learning in Education in the
Philippines

25. 25. All are going to be considered in choosing
a research topic EXCEPT:
A. It should be “doable”.
B. It should be focused and well-defined.
C. It should be broad enough to include many
subjects.
D. It should be interesting and motivating to
the researcher.

26. 26. Why do you need the background of the
study?
A. Conclude through the findings of the study.
B. Determine the current state of knowledge.
C. Make recommendations using the
conclusions.
D. Present data in a tabular or graphical
presentation.

27. 27. Which of the statements is true about the
background of the study?
A. It identifies and describes the history and nature of a
well-defined research problem.
B. It locates the present study within the context of
existing literature.
C. It provides the reader with the essential context
needed to understand the research problem.
D. It expands upon the key points stated in the
introduction but is not the main focus of the paper.

28. 28. Which of the following are correctly stated as
quantitative research questions?
A. What is the relationship of tardiness and the
academic performance of students?
B. Should there be a relationship between the tardiness
of students and their academic performance?
C. Why should there be a relationship between the
tardiness and academic performance of students?
D. Is the relationship between the tardiness of students
and their academic performance needed?

29. 29. Which of the following is a causal research
question?
A. What is the profile of the respondents in terms of
age and gender?
B. What are the causes of the high academic
performance of the students?
C. What is the association of tardiness and academic
performance of students?
D. Is there a significant difference between the
academic performance of students and their study
habits?

30. 30. Which of the following is a related research
question?
A. What is the profile of the respondents in terms
of age and gender?
B. What are the causes of the high academic
performance of the students?
C. What is the relationship between the tardiness
and academic performance of students?
D. Why is there a need for a relationship between the
tardiness and academic performance of students?

31. 31. The scope and delimitation of the
study ______ the scope of the inquiry.
A. widens C. broadens
B. strengthen D. narrows
down

32. 32. The scope and delimitation of the
study sets the ____ of the problem
inquiry.
A. questions
B. boundaries and parameters
C. answers
D. queries

33. 33. What does it mean by this “Statement
of the problem must be a specific question,
it has only one meaning or must not have
dual meaning?
A. SOP must be broad
B. SOP must be wide
C. SOP must be general
D. SOP must be clear

34. 34. The problem statement is the
__________of the specific question which
the researcher wants to answer.
A. verbalization
B. graphical presentation
C. summary
D. gist

35. 35. This study aimed to find out the relationship between the
reading comprehension and academic performance of Grade 11
students of Magsaysay Integrated National High School for SY
2029-2030. Specifically, it aimed to answer the following
questions:
A. What describes the reading comprehension of the
respondents?
B. What describes the academic performance of the
respondents?
C. What is the relationship between the reading comprehension
and academic performance of the respondents?
D. What can be done to know the comprehension of the
respondents?

36. 36. Which of the following choices is NOT a correct
specific questions in a statement of the problem?
A. Is absenteeism a habit among students?
B. What is the profile of the respondents in terms of
age and gender?
C. What are the causes of high academic
performance of the students?
D. What is the relationship between absenteeism
and academic performance of students?

37. 37. Which of the following statements about
Conceptual Framework is UNTRUE?
A. Conceptual framework only help researcher
refine his central hypothesis
B. It is like a food recipe or blueprint of a building
C. Not all conceptual frameworks have to include a
diagram or graphic
D. It provides outline of the plan on how to
conduct the research

38. 38. Which of the following statement about
conceptual framework is CORRECT?
A. Not all conceptual framework have to include a
graphic
B. It encourages formulation of correct research
questions
C. It is used to plan possible research questions
D. It always presented using shapes and arrows

39. 39. If your research variables include students’ interest
and Senior High School strand enrolled in, how will you
write your alternative hypothesis?
A. There is no relationship between the students’ interest
and the SHS stand they are enrolled in.
B. The interest of students and the SHS strand they are
enrolled in has no relationship.
C. The students’ interest has significant effect on the SHS
strand they are enrolled in.
D. The students’ interest cannot affect the SHS strand they
enrolled in.

40. 40. Which of the following is an
assumption that the values observed has
NO change?
A. Null hypothesis
B. Alternative hypothesis
C. Alternate Hypothesis
D. Hypothesis