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