Practical Research 1 Worksheet (Research Design)

Name: ___________________________ Track & Section ____________ Date___________ Score_________

Directions: Read and answer the following questions briefly. Blank lines are provided for your answers.
1-5 Scenario: You are a Health Educator in a nutrition study that examined the effects of exercise and a low-salt diet
on high blood pressure risk reduction. You are responsible for translating the study results and sharing them with local
community organizations that may benefit from learning about the study results. The study had significant findings for
exercise, but not the low-salt diet. The low-salt diet did not have the expected effect on high blood pressure. However,
you really believe in the low-salt diet program and participants in the study really liked the low-salt recipes. What
should you do?
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6-10. Scenario: You are a research assistant in a research study on physical activity. Your responsibilities include
collecting paperwork such as attendance sheets from the health educator leading the exercise classes. In your most
recent visit to an exercise class, the health educator inform you that she’s missing some paper work because she left
it at home. You also notice that the class started 10 minutes late. You know this is unprofessional behavior that is
reducing the amount of exercise time the participants should receive. What should you do?
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11-12. When is it appropriate to change research information?
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13-14. Suppose that a researcher studies one gifted student in order to better understand how this student school day
differs from that of more typical students. What qualitative research are you going to use?
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15-17. Researchers who study various reactions to or perceptions of a particular phenomenon take what approach to
qualitative research?
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19-20. Data analysis in qualitative research, as contrasted with quantitative research, is generally _______________
A. theatrical rather applied b. deductive rather than inductive c. inductive rather than deductive
 Practical Research 1 Worksheet (Sampling Techniques 2)
Name: _________________________ Track & Section _____________ Date__________ Score_________
Directions: Complete the table below with the methods, benefits and crucial issues in using the following sampling
techniques.
Sampling Technique Method Benefits Crucial Issues

A. Simple Random Sampling

B. Systematic Random
Sampling