Quiz 4. Theoretical Framework

What is the importance of the theoretical framework in research?

• No tiene relevancia en el proceso de investigación

• Is only a personal opinion of the researcher

• It is only a formality required by educational institutions

• Helps justify the feasibility of the research

What is a primary source of information for building the theoretical framework?

• Books

• Documentaries

• Descriptive summaries of primary sources

• Internet searches

Why is it important to understand what is read when extracting information for research?

• To evaluate and contrast perspectives on a problem

• To build new perspectives from the ideas

• To think critically about the text

• To remember and paraphrase ideas

What is the reading level that focuses on understanding the global ideas of a text?

• Local reading

• Critical reading

• Global reading

• Elaborative reading

What should be done before delving deeply into an academic text?

• Copy the text without understanding it

• Read only the first paragraph

• Review its summary, table of contents, conclusions, or cited sources

• Skip directly to the conclusions section

What should be done if the literature found indicates that there is already a wide theoretical base on the research topic?

• Copy the existing theory without changes

• Not conduct the research

• Not address the problem as it is completely solved

• Address the problem from a different and novel perspective

What should be done if the literature found suggests that there is not much information available on the topic?

• Select one of the theories found as a base and relate it to other complementary ideas

• Discard all the theories found

• Copy an existing theory without changes

• Not conduct the research

How should the theoretical framework be understood in a research?

• How should the theoretical framework be understood in a research?

• As a formality without importance

• As a way to explain and position the research problem in a given context

• As a list of names of important researchers

• As a personal opinion of the researcher

Why is it important to have a map of what is already known before undertaking an investigation?

• To follow the path of other researchers without deviating

• To not get lost and focus efforts on a novel work

• To copy what has already been researched

• To avoid the need to explain the context of the research

What should be done before writing a theoretical framework?

• What should be done before writing a theoretical framework?

• Perform several readings to extract and contrast ideas

• Copy and paste information from sources without understanding it

• Nothing needs to be done before writing the theoretical framework

• Read only the summary of the sources found