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Its persuasiveness.
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Its persuasiveness.
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It accurately represents the objects and events from which it is drawn.
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We are confident that the researcher has observed carefully and has always produced reliable data in the
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The repetition of observations, questionnaire surveys or whatever, under similar conditions, either by the
same researcher or by others in a team, is a standard way of ensuring the reliability. But this, in itself,
does not make the data reliable; rather goes some way to ensuring that the data accurately represents the
objects and events from which it is drawn.
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It accurately represents the objects and events from which it is drawn.
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We are confident that the researcher has observed carefully and has always produced reliable data in the
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4. What is 'positivism'?
The demand for certainty in relation to research findings.
The view that all arguments and conclusions can be reduced to specific elements that are the result of
particular observations including measurements.
The employment of scientific methodology in social research.
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The demand for certainty in relation to research findings.
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The view that all arguments and conclusions can be reduced to specific elements that are the result of
particular observations including measurements.
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The demand for certainty in relation to research findings.
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The view that all arguments and conclusions can be reduced to specific elements that are the result of
particular observations including measurements.
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5. What is a 'theory'?
An explanation regarding how something should work.
An explanation of how we think something does work.
A guess or inspired hunch about how something works.
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An explanation regarding how something should work.
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An explanation regarding how something should work.
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Bringing professional practitioners up to date in terms of recent developments in their field of practice.
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Drawing from research those findings and conclusions that are most useful to the professional
practitioner.
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Bringing professional practitioners up to date in terms of recent developments in their field of practice.
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Drawing from research those findings and conclusions that are most useful to the professional
practitioner.
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Systematic and objective research.
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Research that is logical in character and does not admit of different interpretation.
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Systematic and objective research.
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Research that is logical in character and does not admit of different interpretation.
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Research on situations in which different interpretations are possible.
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Research that is subjective with conclusions that depend on the particular inclinations of the researcher.
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The answer that you gave was incorrect.
As with the term 'quantitative', 'qualitative' also refers to certain kinds of data. Qualitative data is that
pertaining to peoples' values, ideas and expressions of preference. The number of people visiting the
Tower of London and Regent's Park Zoo in any one day is quantitative data. The views of those people
on which of the two makes a better visitor attraction, is qualitative data.
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Research on situations in which different interpretations are possible.
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Research that is subjective with conclusions that depend on the particular inclinations of the researcher.
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Ethnography (the study of people in their natural settings), action research (research focused on
development) and case study (the investigation of a single individual, organisation or event).
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The answer that you gave was incorrect.
Interview and observation are research methods that may provide qualitative or quantitative data,
depending on what is being asked or observed. Interpretive analysis within a holistic integrative approach
may well be one procedure used by the researcher within the qualitative approach but it is not a
methodology. A methodology is a collection of research methods that are used in the context of broadly
defined qualitative (or quantitative) objectives. In this case ethnography, action research and case study
are examples of ways in which sets of methods might be gathered together in the interests of particular
qualitative research objectives.
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Interviews and observations of discussions.
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Ethnography (the study of people in their natural settings), action research (research focused on
development) and case study (the investigation of a single individual, organisation or event).
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Measurement and statistical analysis.
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Research that reduces its object to its key variables of factors and analyses them for causal relationships.
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The answer that you gave was incorrect.
Measurement and statistical analysis are certainly key processes along with the reduction of situations
and events to key variables with consequent analysis. The methodologies that bring the different
processes together are survey and experimental research.
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Measurement and statistical analysis.
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Research that reduces its object to its key variables of factors and analyses them for causal relationships.
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10. Question 11 of 14
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The use of more than one method or procedure to establish the reliability of a particular finding.
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The use of a second researcher to confirm the data derived from a questionnaire or observation.
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The use of more than one method or procedure to establish the reliability of a particular finding.
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The use of a second researcher to confirm the data derived from a questionnaire or observation.
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The use of both survey and experimental design within a research project.
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To use a case study within the context of a broader ethnographic research project.
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The use of both quantitative and qualitative data in the context of a research question.
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The answer that you gave was incorrect.
Survey and experimental design are both methodologies of quantitative research. Using these two
methodologies is fine but this would be to remain within the quantitative methodological paradigm.
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Similarly, case study and ethnographic research are both qualitative methodologies. Mixed methods
approaches would be to use both quantitative and qualitative methods and data in a project, e.g. a survey
of mainly quantitative information might be accompanied by a case study dealing with qualitative
responses to changing circumstances.
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The use of both survey and experimental design within a research project.
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To use a case study within the context of a broader ethnographic research project.
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The use of both quantitative and qualitative data in the context of a research question.
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12. Question 13 of 14
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The use of quantitative data-gathering processes at different levels within an organisation.
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The juxtapositioning of qualitative and quantitative data taken at different levels within an organisation:
pupil and class, citizen and social context and so on.
Yes: X
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The answer that you gave was incorrect.
The use of interviews to follow up questionnaires might be a mixed-methods approach but it does not
imply that these methods have necessarily been used at different levels. If you answered 'a' you were not
far off. Certainly, using processes to gather quantitative data at different levels, e.g. progress in individual
children's reading ages set against the general measured progress of a class group, would be a multi-level
approach in quantitative research. If, however, our multi-level design is to be a framework for mixed
methods, the implication is that qualitative and quantitative data will be taken at the different levels
specified.
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The use of quantitative data-gathering processes at different levels within an organisation.
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The juxtapositioning of qualitative and quantitative data taken at different levels within an organisation:
pupil and class, citizen and social context and so on.
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A rejection of the epistemological dogma of the qualitative vs quantitative debate.
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A pragmatic approach that sees 'qualitative' and 'quantitative' as terms that chiefly describe the nature of
data.
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A rejection of the epistemological dogma of the qualitative vs quantitative debate.
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A pragmatic approach that sees 'qualitative' and 'quantitative' as terms that chiefly describe the nature of
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