Business Research Methods Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Latest Update 2025 (100% Pass)
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Business Research Methods Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Latest Update 2025 (100% Pass)
research - Answers a type of systematic investigation that is empirical in nature and is designed to contribute to public knowledge
research enterprise - Answers the macro-level effort to accumulate kn...
Business Research Methods Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Latest Update 2025 (100% Pass)
research - Answers a type of systematic investigation that is empirical in nature and is designed to
contribute to public knowledge
research enterprise - Answers the macro-level effort to accumulate knowledge across multiple empirical
systematic public research projects
translational research - Answers the systematic effort to move research from initial discovery to practice
and ultimately to impacts on our lives
research-practice continuum - Answers the process of moving from an initial discovery or idea to
practice, and the potential for the idea to influence our lives or world
basic research - Answers research that is designed to generate discoveries and to understand how
discoveries work
applied research - Answers research where a discovery is tested under increasingly controlled conditions
in real-world contexts
implementation and dissemination research - Answers research that assesses how well an innovation or
discovery can be distributed in and carried out in a broad range of contexts that extend beyond the
original controlled studies
policy research - Answers research that is designed to investigate existing policies or develop and test
new ones
impact research - Answers research that assesses the broader effects of a discovery or innovation on
society
research synthesis - Answers a systematic study of multiple prior research projects that address the
same research question or topic and that summarizes the results in a manner that can be used by
practitioners
meta-analysis - Answers a type of research synthesis that uses statistical methods to combine the results
of similar studies quantitatively in order to allow general conclusions to be made
systematic review - Answers a type of research synthesis that focuses on a specific question or issue and
uses preplanned methods to identify, select, assess and summarize the findings of multiple research
studies
guideline - Answers a systematic process that leads to a specific set of research-based recommendations
for practice that usually includes some estimates of how strong the evidence is for each
recommendation
, evidence-based practice (EBP) - Answers a movement designed to encourage or require practitioners to
employ practices that are based on research evidence as reflected in research syntheses or practice
guidelines
evolutionary epistemology - Answers the branch of philosophy that holds that ideas evolve through the
process of natural selection
requests for proposals (RFPs) - Answers a document issued by the government agency or other
organization that, typically, describes the problem that needs addressing, the context in which it
operates, the approach the agency would like you to take to investigate the problem, and the amount
the agency would be willing to pay for such research
literature review - Answers a systematic compilation and written summary of all the literature published
in scientific journals that is related to a research topic of interest. A literature review is typically included
in the introduction of section of the research write-up
peer review - Answers a system for reviewing potential research publications where authors submit
potential articles to a journal editor who solicits several reviewers who agree to give a critical review of
the paper. The paper is sent to the reviewers with no identification of the author - avoid personal bias.
Based on the reviewer's recommendations, the editor can accept the article, reject it, or recommend
that the author revise and resubmit it
theoretical - Answers pertaining to theory. Social research is theoretical, meaning that much of it is
concerned with developing, exploring or testing the theories or ideas that social researchers have about
how the world operates.
empirical - Answers based on direct observations and measurements of reality.
probabilistic - Answers based on probabilities
causal - Answers pertaining to cause-effect relationship, hypothesis, or relationship. Something is causal
if it leads to an outcome or makes an outcome happen.
causal relationship - Answers a cause-effect relationship. e.g. when you evaluate whether your
treatment or program causes and outcome to occur, you are examining causal relationship.
descriptive studies - Answers a study that documents what is going on or what exists. (public-opinion
polls)
relational studies - Answers a study that looks at relationships between two or more variables (public
opinion polls comparing males and females and what party the voted for)
causal studies - Answers studies designed to determine whether one or more variables causes or affects
one or more outcome variables
cross-sectional studies - Answers study that takes place at a single point in time
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