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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 Unprocessed or unaggregated observations – raw data.Pursuit of scientific knowledge that has no immediate practical applicationAnswer to "what if?" questions. Contrasts with descriptive research.Research 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).Pursuit of Knowledge to help in some practical problem or needTheory of knowledge, or ways of knowing.Limited to certain times, places, or contexts.
Applied research
Causal research
Beneficence
Data
Contingent
Basic research
Descriptive research
Deduction
Epistemology
3. Please Match the Term to Its Definition *This question is required.
Space Cell Social science research that patterns itself after the traditional scientific method of the natural sciences.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.Requires consideration of equity among subjects and fairness in regard to who in society becomes a research participantResearch to determine the impact of a program or intervention.Collecting new data to provide a description or explanation of the world.A process of scientific reasoning in which systematic observation leads to the development of theory and hypotheses.The extent to which the results of a study project to a wider group of context of interest. Also called external validity.Process in which studies or proposals are reviewed by a group of peers who render judgment.
Induction
Performance measurement
Primary research
Positivism
Generalizatbility
Justice
Peer review
Evaluation research
Primary data
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.Data collected by others, such existing surveys, records or transcripts.Techniques and procedures that produce research evidence.How two different variables covary or are related.An approach that favors empiricism and applying the scientific method to social phenomena.The search for published sources describing the results of research or information provided by others.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.Dictates that people used as the subjects of research provide informed consent and are not corerced into participating in research.
Respect for persons
Scientific method
Research methods
Scientific realism
Secondary research
Structuralists
Secondary data
Relationship
Spurious correlation
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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