1. Nimali is a final year undergraduate at ABC University. She is interested in finding solutions for the current economic recession in Sri Lanka. Accordingly, she is going to find out how she can reduce petrol shed ques in the country. For this, she is going to collect data from 100 school kids from the Dhamma school she is teaching.
   1. Do you think Nimali has a good research topic?Explain with reasons. (15 marks)
   2. What are the flows in the research design suggested by Nimali? Discuss (15 marks)

1. Anil is a friend of Nimali, and He is also studying in the same batch. Anil wants to study the actual usage of mobile apps that are used by supermarkets. According to his preliminary review, he found that intention to use a mobile app depends on performance expectancy, social influence, effort expectancy and threat appraisals. However actual use of apps depends on whether the organization use social media apps to promote the app or not.
   1. Draw a theoretical framework for the above proposition (20 marks)
   2. State hypothesis related to this theoretical framework (No explanations needed) (20 marks)

1. Anil plans to develop a questionnaire to collect data for his study. Accordingly, he developed an open-ended questionnaire which include only 5 questions. Do you think this format will be supportive to Mahesh to conduct a linear regression as proposed above? Discuss how you would design the questionnaire for this study. (30 marks)

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1 Evaluation of Nimalis Research Topic Nimalis research topic aimed at finding solutions for reducing petrol queue lengths in Sri Lanka is relevant and timely given the economic difficulties and fuel ... View the full answer