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R & vanR Chapter 1 Quiz

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Please answer each of the following questions to help you self-assess your understanding of "Chapter 1: Research in the Real World" (Remler & Van Ryzin, 2010)
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2. Please Match the Term to Its Definition *This question is required.
Space Cell Pursuit of Knowledge to help in some practical problem or needResearch to describe how the world is. Contrasts with causal research.A process of scientific resoning in which theories lead to hypotheses (predictions) that are compared with data (observation).Limited to certain times, places, or contexts.Ethical research norm that dictates that people who participate in research are not harmed and they should benefit from the researchPursuit of scientific knowledge that has no immediate practical applicationUnprocessed or unaggregated observations – raw data.Theory of knowledge, or ways of knowing.Answer to "what if?" questions. Contrasts with descriptive research.
Beneficence
Contingent
Causal research
Epistemology
Deduction
Basic research
Data
Applied research
Descriptive research
3. Please Match the Term to Its Definition *This question is required.
Space Cell The original collection or analysis of data to answer a new research question or to produce new knowledge.Research to determine the impact of a program or intervention.The process in which an organization collects information to measure how well it is doing.The extent to which the results of a study project to a wider group of context of interest. Also called external validity.Collecting new data to provide a description or explanation of the world.Requires consideration of equity among subjects and fairness in regard to who in society becomes a research participantProcess in which studies or proposals are reviewed by a group of peers who render judgment.Social science research that patterns itself after the traditional scientific method of the natural sciences.A process of scientific reasoning in which systematic observation leads to the development of theory and hypotheses.
Induction
Performance measurement
Primary data
Generalizatbility
Evaluation research
Peer review
Positivism
Primary research
Justice
4. Please Match the Term to Its Definition *This question is required.
Space Cell A way of knowing that that is based upon observation, logical explanation, predicition, openess, and skepticism.The search for published sources describing the results of research or information provided by others.Researchers who insist that social research start with strong theories and test these with emperical predictions.Techniques and procedures that produce research evidence.Data collected by others, such existing surveys, records or transcripts.An approach that favors empiricism and applying the scientific method to social phenomena.How two different variables covary or are related.When two variables presumed to be causally related in fact are not. Any relationship is caused by due to a common cause.Dictates that people used as the subjects of research provide informed consent and are not corerced into participating in research.
Secondary data
Scientific method
Respect for persons
Secondary research
Relationship
Scientific realism
Structuralists
Spurious correlation
Research methods
5. Which of the following represents a way research has become a part of modern public policy and management? *This question is required.
6. Primary research includes: *This question is required.
7. The following is an example of a causal research question: *This question is required.
8. Someone who commissions research must be able to: *This question is required.
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