SWK 650; MIDTERM EXAM (LATEST UPDATE) REAL
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS |100% CORRECT |
ALREADY GRADED A
Pure/Basic Research Ans✓✓✓advancing the existing base of scientific
knowledge to understand and/or predict phenomena - may involve
theory
Applied Research Ans✓✓✓designed to advance solutions to practical
problems, develop and evaluate interventions or technology
Exploratory Purpose Ans✓✓✓to investigate little or understood
phenomena
Descriptive/Correlational Purpose Ans✓✓✓to provide an accurate
description of phenomena and/or associations or comparisons between
phenomena
Predictive/Explanatory/Causal Purpose Ans✓✓✓to test hypotheses
about cause-and-effect relationships: looking for questions of why? what
predicts outcomes? Does x cause y?
Paradigm Ans✓✓✓modal or frame of references that shape the
questions we ask and how we understand or make sense of the world
Components of Paradigms Ans✓✓✓ontological, epistemological,
human nature
, Contemporary Positivism Paradigm Ans✓✓✓there is an objective
answer to the question of what really happened; it is worth trying to
investigate things as objectively as possible ... maximize the accuracy of
your answer to the question
Interpretivism Ans✓✓✓reality is a product of individual consciousness
or interpretation / no objective reality; seek to interpret individuals'
everyday experiences, deeper meanings and feelings, and idiosyncratic
reasons for their behaviors
Critical Social Science/Empowerment Ans✓✓✓a cluster of paradigms
and frameworks committed to using varied qualitative and quantitative
methods with the aims of promoting social justice
Explaining Causality Ans✓✓✓nomothetic and idiographic
quantitative Ans✓✓✓observations translated into numbers
qualitative Ans✓✓✓data includes words, observations, themes elicited,
interactions, artifacts
Mixed Method Research Ans✓✓✓uses procedures for conducting
research that are typically applied in both quantitative and qualitative
studies - dominant method, complemented by other method; QUAL -->
quant; QUANT --> qual
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS |100% CORRECT |
ALREADY GRADED A
Pure/Basic Research Ans✓✓✓advancing the existing base of scientific
knowledge to understand and/or predict phenomena - may involve
theory
Applied Research Ans✓✓✓designed to advance solutions to practical
problems, develop and evaluate interventions or technology
Exploratory Purpose Ans✓✓✓to investigate little or understood
phenomena
Descriptive/Correlational Purpose Ans✓✓✓to provide an accurate
description of phenomena and/or associations or comparisons between
phenomena
Predictive/Explanatory/Causal Purpose Ans✓✓✓to test hypotheses
about cause-and-effect relationships: looking for questions of why? what
predicts outcomes? Does x cause y?
Paradigm Ans✓✓✓modal or frame of references that shape the
questions we ask and how we understand or make sense of the world
Components of Paradigms Ans✓✓✓ontological, epistemological,
human nature
, Contemporary Positivism Paradigm Ans✓✓✓there is an objective
answer to the question of what really happened; it is worth trying to
investigate things as objectively as possible ... maximize the accuracy of
your answer to the question
Interpretivism Ans✓✓✓reality is a product of individual consciousness
or interpretation / no objective reality; seek to interpret individuals'
everyday experiences, deeper meanings and feelings, and idiosyncratic
reasons for their behaviors
Critical Social Science/Empowerment Ans✓✓✓a cluster of paradigms
and frameworks committed to using varied qualitative and quantitative
methods with the aims of promoting social justice
Explaining Causality Ans✓✓✓nomothetic and idiographic
quantitative Ans✓✓✓observations translated into numbers
qualitative Ans✓✓✓data includes words, observations, themes elicited,
interactions, artifacts
Mixed Method Research Ans✓✓✓uses procedures for conducting
research that are typically applied in both quantitative and qualitative
studies - dominant method, complemented by other method; QUAL -->
quant; QUANT --> qual
