Deck 9: Using Secondary Data and Archival Sources

Question 1

A secondary source is a second-hand account of an experience.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The issue of validity is the issue of whether or not the data used are valid, meaningful, credible, reasonable, reasoned, justifiable and defensible.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The main danger in selecting out a subset of data from a large data set is that in selecting out data, you render the data invalid in some way.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Methodological decisions for the research project are shaped by the focus of the project, by the aim of the research, by what it is that the research is trying to accomplish.

Question 5

Primary data is data the researcher males or creates themselves.

Question 6

A primary source is a first hand account of an experience or a phenomenon by a person who has had the experience or experienced the phenomenon.

Question 7

One of the main problems with secondary data is that the data available may not be exactly the data required.

Question 8

Secondary data is data the researcher creates or makes themselves.

Question 9

It is important always to use secondary data in any research project.
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Question 10

When working with secondary sources, the researcher is restricted to the data that is available.

Question 11

Secondary sources and archival sources when used in the research project are part of the methodological framework for the research project.

Question 12

It is important to be able to discern the value to the research project of data available in secondary sources.

Question 13

The validity of the data is the extent to which the data measures or represents that which it purports to measure or represent.

Question 14

A data set is a collection of data.

Question 15

Secondary data is data that already exists. It is not created by the researcher.

Question 16

When you write up your research you write an explanation and a defence of your data set.

Question 17

The most important issue to be addressed in the defence of your data set is the issue of validity.

Question 18

Subsets of data sets are small parts of the overall data set that the researcher selects from the data set.

Question 19

It is important to establish the validity in terms of its use in the research project of any secondary source data used in the research project.

Question 20

Final decisions around methodology and (data collection) methods are made when the literature review is completed, or nearly completed. This is because the researcher needs to learn from the literature what is already known in this area, and they need to be able to clearly see what is not known. The researcher will then develop their research project to ensure that the research makes a contribution to knowledge.

Question 21

A secondary source is:

A) An account of a phenomenon based on the witness or testimony of others.
B) A second rate account of an experience or phenomenon.
C) A first hand account of an experience or phenomenon.
D) A first rate account of an experience or phenomenon.

Question 22

The researcher should ensure that the data used in the research project really do measure, represent or illustrate the phenomenon under investigation in the research project.

Question 23

It is important to have enough data and data that is:

A) From a secondary source.
C) Valid and useful.
B) From a primary source.
D) Quirky and cool.

Question 24

There are no ethical issues in using secondary sources.

Question 25

Ethnocentrism is a belief that:

A) Ethnography is the best research methodology.
B) Ethics are critical in research.
C) Ethics are central to research.
D) One's own ethnic or cultural group is superior and all other ehtnic or cultural groups are seen as being 'other' than that group.

Question 26

Old or out-of-date data may not be useful at all because:

A) It would be difficult to source.
B) It would be difficult to understand.
C) The world may have changed substantially since that data was published.
D) The nature of data may have changed substantially since that data was published.

Question 27

When working with secondary sources every researcher is restricted to:

A) The data available.
C) Working with quantitative data.
B) Second rate standards.
D) Working with qualitative data.

Question 28

One of the fundamental requirements of every research project is that the project be:

A) Rigid.
C) Researchable
B) Regular.
D) Reasonable.

Question 29

A primary source is:

A) A first hand account of an experience or phenomenon.
B) A first rate account of an experience or phenomenon.
C) A second hand account of an experience or phenomenon.
D) A second rate account of an experience or phenomenon.

Question 30

Final decisions around research methodology and data collection methods tend to be made:

A) As soon as the researcher undertakes the research project.
B) When the literature review is completed, or nearly completed.
C) At the very last moment.
D) In time to submit the formal research proposal

Question 31

Secondary data is data from:

A) Primary sources.
C) Substantial sources.
B) Privilidged sources.
D) Secondary sources

Question 32

Triangulation is:

A) The use of three data gathering methods.
B) The use of three secondary sources.
C) The use of three researchers.
D) The use of more than one approach to answering the research question or responding to the research issue.

Question 33

The researcher should ensure that the data used are credible and that they are useful and meaningful in relation to the research project.

Question 34

Sub-sets of data sets are:

A) Sub-standard data sets.
B) Small parts of the data set that the researcher selects from the data set.
C) Substitutes for data sets.
D) Sub titles for data sets.

Question 35

The researcher must observe proper ethical standards when using secondary data.

Question 36

The main danger in selecting out a sub-set of data from a large data set is:

A) That the large data set will be destroyed.
B) That data will be lost.
C) That it may be illegal.
D) That the data selected may be rendered invalid in some way.

Question 37

You cannot research a project if the data required is:

A) Not accessible.
C) In the testimony of different individuals.
B) Accessible.
D) In different archives.

Question 38

A major ethical concern in relation to the use of secondary source data is that the data should not be misused or misrepresented in any way.

Question 39

It is important to develop the capacity to evaluate the:

A) The amount of data available online.
B) Utility or the value of data that you find online.
C) The amount of sources of data available online.
D) The length of time it will take you to online data.

Question 40

Decisions around the use of secondary sources and archival sources are part of the:

A) Conceptual framework for the research project.
B) Theoretical framework for the research project.
C) Methodological framework for the research project.
D) Analytical framework for the research project.

Question 41

In using secondary data, the researcher must observe proper:

A) Ethical standards.
C) Research methodology standards.
B) Rules of engagement.
D) Analytical procedures.

Question 42

The data used in the research project must:

A) Be quantitative data.
B) Be the data required for the research project.
C) Be qualitative data.
D) Be substantial data.

Question 43

How do you ensure that your research project is researchable?

Question 44

What is contained in the conceptual framework?

Question 45

Try to ensure when you do select a sub-set of data:

A) That what you're doing is not illegal.
B) That the logic holds, that you understand what the data selected out really means.
C) That you don't lose data.
D) That you don't destroy the large data set.

Question 46

The literature review contains which of the four frameworks?

Question 47

Try to ensure that the data is credible and that it is useful and meaningful in relation to:

A) Your ambitions for your career.
C) Your research project.
B) Your hopes for your part-time job.
D) Your research proposal.

Question 48

The validity of the data is the extent to which the data:

A) Is guaranteed.
C) Is believable.
B) Is real.
D) Measures what it purports to measure.