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WorksheetsResearch paradigms
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name the following paradigm
Critical
Pragmatic
Art-based or Aesthetic
Transformative
Define the research paradigm of positivism.
A school of thought which advocates that reality is objective and measurable.
A school of thought which believes that reality is subjective and that there is no universal truth.
A school of thought which takes a practical approach to research advocating the use of mixed methods.
Beliefs about the nature of being and the characteristics of reality.
Name the following paradigm:
Emphasizes people's subjective experiences which are grounded in social-historical contexts (Hesse-Biber & Leavy, 2011)
Critical
Constructivist
Transformative
Pragmatic
Define epistemology
Beliefs about the nature of knowledge and how knowledge is acquired.
Beliefs about the nature of being and the characteristics of reality.
A school of thought which takes a practical approach to research advocating the use of mixed methods.
A school of thought which believes that reality is subjective and that there is no universal truth.
Name the following paradigm:
Holds no allegiance to a particular set of rules and theories but rather suggests that different tools maybe useful in different research context.
Critical
Art-based or Aesthetic
Pragmatic
Transformative
Define ontology.
Beliefs about the nature of knowledge and how knowledge is acquired.
Beliefs about the nature of being and the characteristics of reality.
A school of thought which takes a practical approach to research advocating the use of mixed methods.
A school of thought which believes that reality is subjective and that there is no universal truth
Name the following paradigm:
Emphasizes power-rich contexts, dominant discourses, and social justice issues (Hesse-Biber & Leavy, 2011; Klein, 2000; Leavy, 2011)
Critical
Transformative
Constructivist
Pragmatic
Define the research paradigm of interpretivism.
Beliefs about the nature of being and the characteristics of reality.
A school of thought which takes a practical approach to research advocating the use of mixed methods.
A school of thought which believes that reality is subjective and that there is no universal truth.
A school of thought which advocates that reality is objective and measurable.
Name the following paradigm:
The arts are able to access that which is otherwise out of reach. Researchers value preverbal ways of knowing, including sensory, emotional, perceptual, kinesthetic, and imaginal knowledge (Chilton, Gerber, & Scotti 2015; Conrad & Beck, 2015; Cooper, Lamarque & Sartwell, 1997)
Critical
Pragmatic
Art-based or Aesthetic
Constructivist
