Worldviews

Multiple Choice

This is an approach for exploring and understanding the meaning individuals or groups ascribe to a social or human problem.

• Qualitative Research

• Quantitative Research

• Action Research

Multiple Choice

This is an approach for testing objective theories by examining the relationship among variables.

• Qualitative Research

• Quantitative Research

• Action Research

Multiple Choice

This worldview is sometimes called the scientific method or doing science research.

• Postpositivism

• Constructivism

• Transformative

• Pragmatism

Multiple Choice

This philosophical worldview focuses on the needs of groups and individuals in our society that may be marginalized or disenfranchised.

• Postpositivism

• Constructivism

• Transformative

• Pragmatism

Multiple Choice

Individual researchers have a freedom of choice.

• Postpositivism

• Constructivism

• Transformative

• Pragmatism

Multiple Choice

The basic generation of meaning is always social, arising in and out of interaction with a human community.

• Postpositivism

• Constructivism

• Transformative

• Pragmatism

Multiple Choice

The research in this worldview links political and social action to these inequities.

• Postpositivism

• Constructivism

• Transformative

• Pragmatism

Multiple Choice

The goal of the research is to rely as much as possible on the participants’ views of the situation being studied.

• Postpositivism

• Constructivism

• Transformative

• Pragmatism

Multiple Choice

This worldview believes that truth is what works at the time.

• Postpositivism

• Constructivism

• Transformative

• Pragmatism

Multiple Choice

Knowledge is based on careful observation and measurement of the objective reality that exists in the world.

• Postpositivism

• Constructivism

• Transformative

• Pragmatism

Multiple Choice

It is not committed to any one system of philosophy and reality.

• Postpositivism

• Constructivism

• Transformative

• Pragmatism

Multiple Choice

Laws or theories that govern the world are needed to be tested or verified.

• Postpositivism

• Constructivism

• Transformative

• Pragmatism

Multiple Choice

Inquirers generate or inductively develop a theory or pattern of meaning.

• Postpositivism

• Constructivism

• Transformative

• Pragmatism

Multiple Choice

It uses a program theory of beliefs about how a program works and why the problems of oppression, domination, and power relationships exist.

• Postpositivism

• Constructivism

• Transformative

• Pragmatism

Multiple Choice

Instead of focusing on methods, researchers emphasize the research problem and use all approaches available to understand the problem.

• Postpositivism

• Constructivism

• Transformative

• Pragmatism

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Open Ended

Of the four worldviews discussed, which do you think fits most your research perspective and topic? Why?