P.G. DIPLOMA EXAMINATION, APRIL 2018
Non-Semester
Mental Health
SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH AND STATISTICS
(2016 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 2 20)
Answer all questions.
1. Narrate the characteristics of Scientific Method.
2. What is action research?
3. What do you mean by diagnostic research design?
4. List out any two sources of hypothesis.
5. Write the meaning of ''probability sampling''.
6. What is secondary data?
7. Write a short note on "coding".
8. Write the meaning of references.
9. Define Qualitative research.
10. What is participant observation?
Sub. Code
18
CP-8759
2
Ws9
Part B X 5 25)
Answer all questions.
11. Enumerate the objectives of research.
Or
Describe the uses of review of literature.
12. Explain about exploratory and experimental
research design.
Or
List out the sources of hypothesis and explain about
the formulation of hypothesis.
13. Write a note on tool of data collection.
Or
Elucidate the types of questions.
14. Find the mean, median and mode for the following
set of scores
15, 10, 5
Or
Describe the uses of computers in data analysis.
15. Enumerate the principles of qualitative research.
Or
Write down the advantages and disadvantages of
quantitative research.
CP-8759
3
Ws9
Part C X 10 30)
Answer all questions.
16. Explain different types of hypothesis and functions
of hypothesis.
Or
Write a note on selection: formulation and
clarification of research problem.
17. Describe the meaning and types of sampling.
Or
Explain about the data processing.
18. List out the methods of data collection in qualitative
research and explain in detail.
Or
Compute the Pearson correlation for the following
data set.
X 2 3 3 5 6 8 9 10
Y 8 10 7 6 7 4 2 3
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