WGU (C224) Research Foundations Questions and Answers Graded A

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WGU (C224) Research Foundations Questions and Answers Graded A Non-Experimental Research Methods ✔✔Correlation and Casual Comparative Correlation research method ✔✔non-experimantal research... method. A process to collect data to determine if a relationship exists between two or more quantitative variables, and to what degree. Correlation Coefficient ✔✔Strength and direction of a relationship between two variables. range of +1 to -1 Positive Correlation ✔✔r=+1 (points follow along a line) Negative Correlation ✔✔r=-1 (no correlation is a 0 and looks like a gun shot all over) Variable ✔✔a condition or characteristic that can take on different values or categories (such as age, GPA, gender, etc.) Descriptive Statistics ✔✔Goal is to describe, summarize, or make sense of a particular set of data. Inferential Statistics ✔✔where researchers use the laws of probability to make inferences about populations based on sample data. Strengths of Quantitative Research ✔✔-Testing and validating already constructed theories -Can generalize research findings when based on random samples -Determining nomothetic consumption (general scientific casual relationships) -Quick and cheap Qualitative Research purpose ✔✔Collects text or imagery data to gain a deeper understanding of existing phenomena, gain insight on insider perspective. Exploration, discovery, understanding Quantitative Research Purpose ✔✔Collect numerical data. Purpose is to describe, predict, control, or explain. Narrow lens approach (top-down) Linguistic-relativity hypothesis ✔✔(assumptions of qualitative research) Intuits' local languages might allow them to see distinctions that you do not notice. Empathetic Understanding ✔✔(assumptions of qualitative research) I can appreciate where you're coming from. I have an interest in you Ontology (Qualitative Assumption) ✔✔(inherit understanding) Take on personal, mental, subjective, personal, constructed Epistemology (Qualitative Assumption) ✔✔(theory of knowledge) Everything is relative, varying standards, individual/group justification, social construction. Overall understanding of how knowledge is created. Criterion Based aka Purposive Sampling ✔✔selecting participants because they meet the criteria or purpose of the study. Phenomenology ✔✔Rich narrative allowing researcher to vicariously experience the phenomenon through the eyes of the participant. Purpose: Describing the individuals experience of the phenomena. Ethnography ✔✔Extensive physical description of the physical and social settings aimed at holistic understanding. Purpose: Describing cultural characteristics of a group of people Narrative Inquiry ✔✔including patterns, connections, and insights uncovered and carefully synthesized. Purpose: Describing people's lives/stories to add to our understanding. Chronological story Case Study ✔✔Rich, holistic narrative which triangulates data and places the case into a meaningful context Purpose: Addressing research questions through in-depth analysis. Environment based on a set of circumstances. Grounded Theory ✔✔Contains methodological description, then proposes and discusses the theory built during the research study. Purpose: Inductively generating a theory describing a phenomenon. Does this dynamic of people in this environment hold true to a theory that's related to it? Not manipulating data. Triangulation ✔✔Observations --> Interviews --> Questionnaires. Is everybody in sync with one another? It validates the story Major characteristics of qualitative research analysis ✔✔Unique Case Orientation, Inductive Analysis & Creative Synthesis, Holistic Perspective, Context Sensitivity, Voice Perspective & Reflectivity Voice, Perspective & Reflectivity ✔✔The qualitative analyst owns and is reflective about his or her own voice and perspective; a credible voice conveys authenticity and trustworthiness Context Sensitivity ✔✔Be sensitive to the environment around you. Research places findings in a context that is: social, historical, and temporal. Holistic Perspective ✔✔The whole phenomenon under study is understood as a complex system that is more than the sum of its parts. Inductive Analysis & Creative Synthesis ✔✔taking all the specific info and creating the big story. Looking for patterns, themes, a [Show More]

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