RESEARCH DESIGN QUIZ

What is Research?

• A process of collecting, analyzing, interpreting and writing the results of a study.

• A procedure of data analysis to show real evidences of studies.

• A stage of different perspectives which focus on qualitative and quantitative approaches.

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What were the two approaches mentioned in the first edition of the book?

• Epistemology and humanist.

• Qualitative and Quantitative.

• Sociologist and Scientific.

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Research framework needed to combine elements of....

• Procedures and design.

• Philosophical ideas, strategies and methods.

• Epistemology and scientific purposes.

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According with the figure 1.1 ( pg 5), what are the three elements of inquiry?

• Claims, theoretical perspectives and procedures.

• Practical decisions, assumptions and data.

• Knowledge claims, strategies and methods.

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Which one of the following characteristics do not belong to the alternative knowledge claim positions....

• Certain assumptions about how they will learn during the inquiry.

• Postpositivism reflects a deterministic philosophy in which causes probably determine effects or outcomes.

• There are laws and theories that govern the world and these need to be tested or verify.

• The social construction of the reality and other assumptions identified to develop subjective meanings of their experiences.

One of the most important characteristic of "Pragmatism knowledge claims is.....

• The assumption of new analyzing data.

• To develop pluralistic approaches to derive knowledge about the problem.

• The mixed of methods in which it opens the door to multiple methods.

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What are the alternative strategies of inquiry ( Table 1.2) associated with Quantitative approach?

• Sequential and concurrent procedures of analysis.

• Narratives and phenomenologies procedures.

• Experimental designs based on structured interviews for data collection.

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What are the three general strategies associated with the Mixed Methods Approach?

• Phenomenological research, Narrative research and Grounded theory.

• Sequential, Concurrent and Transformative pocedures.

• Data analysis, collection and procedures.

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What are the three approaches to research taken from the second edition of the book?

• Data collection, knowledge and procedures to study.

• Image analysis, perspective and text analysis.

• A quantitative, alternative and mixed methods approach.

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What is the main Criteria for selecting an approach?

• To select the problem and involved that into the research.

• The explanation of mechanism of descriptions and concepts for individuals.

• The Intervention or understanding of qualitative approach.

• To Involved a mixed of methods design to capture the best of both quantitative and qualitative approaches.