Research in Physical Education Questions and Answers

Answer: B

The limitation of a research process includes the attitude and interest of subjects and the precision of the available instrument.

Limitations are weaknesses that the researcher cannot control: how motivated the subjects are and how accurate the instruments are.

Age, sex and participation level are characteristics of the subjects, which the researcher can fix through delimitation, so they are not limitations in this sense. Delimitations, by contrast, are the boundaries the researcher sets by choice.

Answer: B

The sequence for a chi-square test is II, I, III, IV.

The observed frequencies are calculated first (II), then the expected frequencies (I), then the chi-square value from the difference between them (III), and the result is interpreted last (IV).

The expected frequency is compared with the observed one, so the observed must be found first, and the interpretation cannot come before the value. Fixing the first and last steps of the sequence first usually removes most of the wrong options.

Answer: C

(A) is false but (R) is true.

The recommendations of a study point both to the scope of future research and to the practical use of the knowledge gained. So the assertion, which limits them to future research, is false.

The reason correctly says that the recommendations indicate the future use of the knowledge obtained. The options that accept the assertion are rejected. An assertion and reason item is judged in two steps: whether each statement is true, and then whether the reason accounts for the assertion.

Answer: D

(A) is false but (R) is true.

In closed-ended questions the participants choose from the options provided. They do not formulate their own responses, so the assertion is false.

Closed-ended questions do provide limited options, so the reason is true. The options accepting the assertion are rejected. An assertion and reason item is judged in two steps: whether each statement is true, and then whether the reason accounts for the assertion.