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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 Limited to certain times, places, or contexts.Unprocessed or unaggregated observations – raw data.Answer to "what if?" questions. Contrasts with descriptive research.Pursuit of scientific knowledge that has no immediate practical applicationResearch to describe how the world is. Contrasts with causal research.Pursuit of Knowledge to help in some practical problem or needEthical 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).Theory of knowledge, or ways of knowing.
Contingent
Basic research
Epistemology
Applied research
Beneficence
Data
Causal research
Deduction
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.The process in which an organization collects information to measure how well it is doing.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.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.Collecting new data to provide a description or explanation of the world.The 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
Positivism
Evaluation research
Primary data
Justice
Peer review
Primary research
Generalizatbility
Performance measurement
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.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.Dictates that people used as the subjects of research provide informed consent and are not corerced into participating in research.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.How two different variables covary or are related.Researchers who insist that social research start with strong theories and test these with emperical predictions.
Secondary research
Secondary data
Research methods
Structuralists
Relationship
Spurious correlation
Scientific realism
Respect for persons
Scientific method
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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