MIT 2025 Final Exam ACTUAL
QUESTIONS ANDCORRECT ANSWERS
Validity - Correct answers✔the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.
Accuracy of research findings
Reliability - Correct answers✔the extent to which the results can be reproduced when the
research is repeated under the same conditions.
Sample - Correct answers✔Representative group of the population who will supply data for the
study
Citations - Correct answers✔refers to the use of sources in academic writing to support research
claims and give credit to authors
paradigm - Correct answers✔Framework through which knowledge is filtered and the
foundational perspective carrying a set of assumptions that guides the research process
Positivism/post positivism Research Paradigm - Correct answers✔-making and testing claims (A
causes B)
-reserachers aim to support or disprove assertions
Positivism - Correct answers✔Based on the idea that knowledge can only be gained through
through scientific observations
- Focuses on facts
-aims to find universal laws that apply to all people/situations
, Post-positivism - Correct answers✔Builds on positivism but recognizes that knowledge is
influenced by social and cultural factors
Interpretivists/Constructivists Research Paradigm - Correct answers✔Emphasizes peoples
subjective experiences, which are grounded in social historical contexts
- both there are multiple realities
-different people cane experience same event differently based on their own reality
Interpretivists - Paradigm - Correct answers✔How realities are experienced
-people are experts of their own experiences
-think person conducting research is vital and the way they think/feel is important for
understanding the world
Constructivists- Paradigm - Correct answers✔How realities are constructed
- reality is socially constructed
- everyone part of the research helps to create meaning
-
Critical Research - Correct answers✔An approach to research that aims to identify, critique, or
change communication practices that oppress, marginalize, or otherwise harm people.
- A way to try to understand the world that aims to question about power and inequality
-Tries to understand why some have more power than others
- asks questions like "why are things the way they are?", how can we work to make the world
more fair for everyone?"
QUESTIONS ANDCORRECT ANSWERS
Validity - Correct answers✔the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.
Accuracy of research findings
Reliability - Correct answers✔the extent to which the results can be reproduced when the
research is repeated under the same conditions.
Sample - Correct answers✔Representative group of the population who will supply data for the
study
Citations - Correct answers✔refers to the use of sources in academic writing to support research
claims and give credit to authors
paradigm - Correct answers✔Framework through which knowledge is filtered and the
foundational perspective carrying a set of assumptions that guides the research process
Positivism/post positivism Research Paradigm - Correct answers✔-making and testing claims (A
causes B)
-reserachers aim to support or disprove assertions
Positivism - Correct answers✔Based on the idea that knowledge can only be gained through
through scientific observations
- Focuses on facts
-aims to find universal laws that apply to all people/situations
, Post-positivism - Correct answers✔Builds on positivism but recognizes that knowledge is
influenced by social and cultural factors
Interpretivists/Constructivists Research Paradigm - Correct answers✔Emphasizes peoples
subjective experiences, which are grounded in social historical contexts
- both there are multiple realities
-different people cane experience same event differently based on their own reality
Interpretivists - Paradigm - Correct answers✔How realities are experienced
-people are experts of their own experiences
-think person conducting research is vital and the way they think/feel is important for
understanding the world
Constructivists- Paradigm - Correct answers✔How realities are constructed
- reality is socially constructed
- everyone part of the research helps to create meaning
-
Critical Research - Correct answers✔An approach to research that aims to identify, critique, or
change communication practices that oppress, marginalize, or otherwise harm people.
- A way to try to understand the world that aims to question about power and inequality
-Tries to understand why some have more power than others
- asks questions like "why are things the way they are?", how can we work to make the world
more fair for everyone?"
