General Santos Doctors’ Medical School Foundation, Inc.

Bulaong West, General Santos City

MIDTERM EXAMINATION
2nd SEM: SY: 2018-2019

SUBJECT DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Practical Research 1

NAME:_______________________________________ SCORE: _______

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Write all your answers on the answer sheet provided.
2. Strictly no erasures.
3. Use of friction pen is not allowed.

TEST I. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Read the questions carefully and select the best answer
from the choices given below. (30 points)
1. A learning process that motivates you to obtain knowledge or information about
people, things, places, or events.
a. Inquiry b. Research c. Investigation d. Study
2. It is a scientific, experimental, or inductive manner of thinking
a. Inquiry b. Research c. Investigation d. Study
3. A type of research that describes and measures the level of occurences on the
basis of numbers and calculations.
a. Qualitative b. Quantitative c. Descriptive d. Historical
4. People inclined to doing a quantitative research wants to discover truth in
__________.
a. An exact manner c. a careful way
b. an indirect way d. a personal way
5. The following are reasons for reading literature except for ______________.
a. Pleasure c. Discovery
b. Relaxation d. Acquiring Knowledge
6. Which of the following best characterizes the difference between quantitative
and qualitative studies?
a. Quantitative researchers structure and control the context while qualitative
researchers do not interfere with the natural context.
b. Quantitative studies involve many, many variables while qualitative studies
involve only one or two variables.
c. Quantitative problems are stated as questions while qualitative problems are
stated as hypotheses.
d. Quantitative problems are researchable while qualitative ones are not.
7. The purpose of the research presents a picture of the specific of the details of a
situation, social setting or relationship.

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 a. Exploratory b. Descriptive c. Explanatory d. Quantitative
8. A type of research aims to explore and describe.
a. Quantitative method c. Qualitative method
b. Mixed method d. Scientific research
9. A method of acquiring knowledge based on the scientific method of inquiry to
enrich the system of objective knowledge in the field of natural and social
sciences.
a. Discipline b. Research c. Theory d. Model
10. One important goal in conducting research is to
a. Advance the personal and professional qualification of practitioner
b. Produce evidence based practice
c. Focus direction of the research
d. Describe characteristics of a population
11. In APA style, a long quotation which is more than 40 words long needs
a. to be enclosed in double quotation marks
b. to be single-spaced and indented half an inch
c. to be double-spaced, indented half an inch, and not enclosed in quotation
marks
d. to be single-spaced, indented half an inch, and enclosed in single quotation
marks
12. Which of the following is cited correctly in APA style?
a. H. M. Dietel and P. J. Dietel (C How to Program) define pointers as "variables
that contain as their values addresses of other variables" (p. 294).
b. H. M. Dietel and P. J. Dietel (1999) define pointers as "variables that contain
as their values addresses of other variables" (p. 294).
c. H. M. Dietel and P. J. Dietel define pointers as "variables that contain as their
values addresses of other variables" (1999, p. 294).
d. None of the above
13. Indicate which is the correct APA reference for the following source:
Title: Role of Personality in Determining Value Judgements
Volume No.: 75
Authors: Maxine Renee Shaw, Jonathan L. Speaks, Kathleen M. Neal
Date Published: 1999
Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology
Page Numbers: 558-577
a. Role of Personality in Determining Value Judgements in Journal of Applied
Psychology. Maxine Renee Shaw, Jonathan L. Speaks, Kathleen M. Neal
(1999), 75, p. 558-577.
b. Role of Personality in Determining Value Judgements, in Journal of Applied
Science, 75, by M.R. Shaw, J.L. Speaks, & K.M. Neal (1999), 558-577.
c. M.R. Shaw, J.L. Speaks, & K.M. Neal (1999). Role of Personality in
Determining Value Judgements, Journal of Applied Psychology, 75, p. 558-
577.
d. Shaw, M.R., Speaks J.L., & Neal, K.M. (1999). Role of personality in
determining value judgements. Journal of Applied Psychology, 75, 558-577.
14. Without research questions, your RRL structure can appear in a form called

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 a. narrative b. outline c. statistical d. tabular
15. Previous studies that involves similar variables including theses, dissertations,
scholarly written papers, studies, published and unpublished.
a. Primary sources c. Related studies
b. Related literature d. Secondary sources

TEST II. TRUE OR FALSE: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if the
statement is wrong. (10 points)
1. A course requirement limits you in choosing a research topic.
2. Quantitative research
3. A concept is an explanation to understand the occurrence of specific phenomena
4. Related studies are written documents such as books, periodicals, magazines,
journals, newspapers and legal citations.
5. Reliability refers to how well a test measures what it is supposed to measure.
6. Data are all the collected information.
7. Sample refers to the participants in the study.
8. A theory is an abstract label that represents an aspect of reality.
9. A hypothesis is a specific statement describing the expected relationship of
variables
10. Bibliographical list is not a good way to begin an article.

TEST III. ENUMERATION: Enumerate the terms being asked. (15 points)
1-5. Roles of the Researcher
6-9. Characteristics of a good research question
10-15. Characteristics of Quantitative research

TEST IV. ESSAY: Answer the following questions briefly and comprehensively.
Rubrics: Content = 5, Organization = 5, Use of Language = 5
A. Write briefly and comprehensively the following question asked. All your
answers should be based on your current research. (45 points)

Research Title:
1. What is the general objective of the research?
2. What are the following scope and delimitation of your study?
3. How beneficial is the current research to the school?

B. Make an outline based on the text below. (15 points)

Arthritis and rheumatism are general names for approximately 100 diseases
that produce inflammation or degeneration of connective tissue. Some of these
diseases are infectious and primarily affect younger people. Rheumatic fever, for
example, is a bacterial infection that occurs mostly in children or teenagers.
Rheumatoid arthritis predominantly strikes women between 20 and 60. However,
the most common rheumatic disease is a noninfectious, noninflammatory
degenerative joint disease – osteoarthritis. To some degree, it affects nearly all

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older adults, causing swelling, pain, and stiffness in joints. Treatment may
include heat, exercises, and drugs that reduce pain and inflammation.
Besides osteoarthritis, many other noninfectious diseases can limit the
activities of the elderly. Osteoporosis (a condition in which bone loss exceeds
bone replacement so that the bones become less dense, more porous, and more
brittle) often leads to fractures, especially of the hipbone. Many conditions
conspire to decrease the sensory perception of the elderly. Cataracts are created
when the lens of the eye – or a portion of it – becomes opaque and sometimes
swells or shrinks and interferes with vision. Deterioration of nerves in the inner
ear causes the characteristic old-age hearing loss, most severe in the high-
pitched tones. The senses of taste and smell also deteriorate in old age.
Source: Tiersky, E.M. (1992) The Language of Medicine in English, Englewood Cliffs:
Prentice Hall, pp. 39-44

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