MIT 2025 Final Exam ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT 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?"
Transformative Research - Correct answers✔✔A way to try to understand the world that brings
about positive change
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT 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?"
Transformative Research - Correct answers✔✔A way to try to understand the world that brings
about positive change
