Educational Practice with Research Methods MCQs
Educational Practice with Research Methods MCQs
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1: A research approach that seeks to use a systematic process of research to improve practices and/or processes is called
A. Action Research
B. Applied Research
C. Basic Research
D. Normal Research
2: Research that aims to understand a problem of practice and uses this understanding to address the problem of practice is called
A. Action Research
B. Applied Research
C. Basic Research
D. Normal Research
3: Research that aims to generate new knowledge and understanding about a topic of interest is called
A. Action Research
B. Applied Research
C. Basic Research
D. Normal Research
4: A Constructive paradigm that leads a practitioner-scholar to assume that there are multiple realities that can be studied, with the researcher deriving their own understanding of these realities by working with and through the participants’ perspectives of a given phenomenon or problem of practice.
A. True
B. False
5: A research paradigm that leads to questions being raised about the power bases and inherent inequities that exist across race, gender, social class, sexual orientation,,______. and language is called Critical/Feminist Paradigm
A. Culture
B. ‘Ethnicity
C. Emotional
D. None of above
6: Which research provides important information about ‘what is’ and thus provides opportunities to understand and critique existing practices in the education system.?
A. Action Research
B. Applied Research
C. Basic Research
D. Descriptive Research
7: A philosophical concept that refers to the idea of knowledge construction and centers around what we know and how we go about knowing is called
A. Epidemiology
B. Epistemology
C. Explanatory
D. Descriptive
8: Research that enables researchers to generate theoretical understandings of current practices, programs, processes, and policies is called
A. Action Research
B. Applied Research
C. Explanatory Research
D. Descriptive Research
9: Improvement-oriented research that seeks to address practice and is concerned with identifying what could be if particular actions or reforms were adopted.
A. True
B. False
10: A research approach that combines qualitative and ______. research methods to answer a research question of interest is called mix methods
A. Quantitative
B. Equally
C. Basic
D. Descriptive
11: An approach to research that uses both qualitative and quantitative research methods to make sense of a research question and/or problem. Is called
A. Analyzing Methods Research
B. Basic Methods Research
C. Mixed Methods Research
D. Descriptive Methods Research
12: A philosophical concept that refers to the nature of reality and the assumptions related to what exist is called
A. Epistemology
B. Ontology
C. Oncology’
D. Epidemiology
13: A research paradigm that leads a practitioner-scholar to assume that they can identify a single truth about the phenomenon that they are studying is called
A. Positivist Paradigm
B. Post-Positivist Paradigm
C. Poststructuralist Paradigm
D. Negative Paradigm
14: A research paradigm that leads a practitioner-scholar to assume that a reality exists (similar to a positivist perspective), while acknowledging that this reality must be interpreted and thus can only be approximated because of one’s limitation as a researcher is called
A. Positivist Paradigm
B. Post-Positivist Paradigm
C. Poststructuralist Paradigm
D. Negative Paradigm
15: A Poststructuralist Paradigm research paradigm that leads a practitioner-scholar to assume that there are multiple realities that individuals construct to give meaning to the universe and that there is no truth (with a capital T) to be known.
A. True
B. False
16: Problems of Practice describes the common, everyday challenges that confront classroom teachers, teacher leaders, and school and district administrator
A. True
B. False
17: An umbrella term that encompasses those methodologies that take an interpretative, inductive approach to the study of human experience and social world.is called
A. Quantitative Methodologie
B. Qualitative Methodologie
C. Basic Methodologie
D. Descriptive Methodologie
18: Research approaches that typically study things in their natural environments and focus on exploring and understanding how people make sense of and experience the world in which they live.is called
A. Qualitative Research
B. Quantitative Research
C. Basc Research
D. Descriptive Research
19: An umbrella terms that encompasses those methodologies that take a deductive approach to the study of human experience and the social world, typically represented by numerical data is called
A. Quantitative Methodologie
B. Qualitative Methodologie
C. Basic Methodologie
D. Descriptive Methodologie
20: Research approaches that use numeric data to represent individuals, experiences, and outcomes and to identify, understand, and assess the strength of relationships between data points is called
A. Qualitative Research
B. Quantitative Research
C. Basc Research
D. Descriptive Research
21: Research is an ______ investigation designed to make sense of complex, everyday problems that impact classroom teachers, teacher leaders, and school and district administrators.
A. Normal
B. Systematic
C. Non-systematic
D. Designated
22: Research design is an overall plan to study a problem of practice.
A. True
B. False
23: The stance or perspective that a practitioner-scholar adopts in order to understand a particular problem of practice is called
A. Research Methodology
B. Research Methods
C. Basic Methodology
D. All of above
24: The procedures that are used to carry out a research study is called
A. Research Methodology
B. Research Methods
C. Basic Methodology
D. All of above
25: A way of thinking about and making sense of the world centered around a shared set of assumptions about how the world works and how you can go about studying it is called
A. Research Paradigm
B. Research methods
C. Research methods
D. None of above
26: An individual who aspires to study problems of practice in a comprehensive and systematic way is called Practitioner-Scholar
A. True
B. False
27: Research that is designed to help practitioner-scholars anticipate changes in outcomes is called
A. Predictive Research
B. Basic Research
C. Descriptive Research
D. None of above
28: Research that is designed to help practitioner-scholars anticipate changes in outcomes is called
A. Predictive Research
B. Basic Research
C. Descriptive Research
D. None of above
29: An example of a quantitative methodology is ___________________.
A. Case study
B. Correlational study
C. Ethnography
D. Discourse analysis
30: ___________________ refers to the idea of knowledge construction and centers around what we know and how we go about knowing.
A. Ontology
B. Methodology
C. Epistemology
D. Phenomenology
31: Common, everyday challenge confronted by school leaders, teachers, and educators of all stripes in their classrooms, schools, districts, and educational organizations is ___________________.
A. Paradigms
B. Curriculum difficulties
C. Ontologies
D. Problems of practice
32: What is predictive research?
A. Research that is designed to help practitioner-scholars anticipate what “could be” given particular changes in outcomes, such as student achievement, teacher behavior, or parent relationships.
B. Research that provides important information about “what is” and thus provides opportunities to understand and critique existing practices in the education system.
C. Research that enables researchers to generate theoretical understandings of current practices, programs, processes, and policies to explain “why.”
D. Research that seeks to address practice, as it uses knowledge derived through research to identify what could be if particular actions or reforms were adopted, in which underlies each of the three previous purposes.
33: What type of research seeks to use the systematic process of research to improve practices and/or processes with an intentional focus on a current problem of practice?
A. Explanatory research
B. Basic research
C. Quantitative research
D. Action research
34: Qualitative methodologies use ___________ approaches to the study of human experience.
A. Mixed
B. Inductive
C. Deductive
D. Collaborative
35: Specific tools and procedures used to complete the research study are ___________.
A. Research methodology
B. Research design
C. Problems of practice
D. Research methods
36: _____________ is a systematic investigation designed to make sense of complex, everyday problems that impact your work as a professional educator.
A. Research
B. Problem of practice
C. Research paradigm
D. Theory
37: The epistemology of the _________________ research paradigm holds that knowledge is subjective and political.
A. Post-positivist
B. Constructivist
C. Critical/feminist
D. Poststructuralist
38: Mixed methods are typically positioned as ______________, as a mixed methods researcher combines qualitative and quantitative research methods to answer a research question of interest.
A. Post-positivist
B. Pragmatic
C. Poststructuralist
D. Deductive
39: In the textbook, the problem of practice regarding implementing education policies introduces ______________.
A. Qualitative
B. Quantitative
C. Mixed methods
D. Action research
40: If a practitioner-scholar takes a _________________ research paradigm, they assume that the needs of the participants in the study are unique. The aim is to use research to create an in-depth, contextually detailed understanding of the needs of those in the study. This understanding, though, might not apply to another group of participants and thus would likely not be generalizable.
A. Positivist
B. Post-positivist
C. Poststructuralist
D. Constructivist
41: Ontological assumptions are concerned with what we believe constitutes social reality.
A. True
B. False
42: Practitioner-scholarship is about both your practice as an educator and your practice as a politician.
A. True
B. False
43: Within a positivist paradigm, a practitioner-scholar assumes that his or her research can identify a single truth about the phenomenon that they are studying.
A. True
B. False
44: An experimental study is one that _____.
A. Attempts to capture a population's characteristics by making inferences from a sample'scharacteristics and testing resulting hypotheses
B. Involves manipulation of one or more variables to determine the effect on another variable
C. Discovers answers to the questions who, what, when, where, or how muchD. attempts to reveal why or how one variable produces changes in another
D. Provides repeated measures over an extended period of time
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