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Involves manipulation of one or more variables to determine the effect on another variable
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2. 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.
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True
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3. Practitioner-scholarship is about both your practice as an educator and your practice as a politician.
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False
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4. Ontological assumptions are concerned with what we believe constitutes social reality.
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True
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5. 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.
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Constructivist
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6. In the textbook, the problem of practice regarding implementing education policies introduces ______________.
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Mixed methods
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7. Mixed methods are typically positioned as ______________, as a mixed methods researcher combines qualitative and quantitative research methods to answer a research question of interest.
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Pragmatic
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8. The epistemology of the _________________ research paradigm holds that knowledge is subjective and political.
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Critical/feminist
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9. _____________ is a systematic investigation designed to make sense of complex, everyday problems that impact your work as a professional educator.
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Research
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10. Specific tools and procedures used to complete the research study are ___________.
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Research methods
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11. Qualitative methodologies use ___________ approaches to the study of human experience.
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Inductive
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12. 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?
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Action research
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13. What is predictive research?
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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.
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14. Common, everyday challenge confronted by school leaders, teachers, and educators of all stripes in their classrooms, schools, districts, and educational organizations is ___________________.
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Problems of practice
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15. ___________________ refers to the idea of knowledge construction and centers around what we know and how we go about knowing.
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Epistemology
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16. An example of a quantitative methodology is ___________________.
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Correlational study
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17. Research that is designed to help practitioner-scholars anticipate changes in outcomes is called
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Predictive Research
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18. Research that is designed to help practitioner-scholars anticipate changes in outcomes is called
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Predictive Research
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19. An individual who aspires to study problems of practice in a comprehensive and systematic way is called Practitioner-Scholar
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True
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20. 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
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Research Paradigm
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21. The procedures that are used to carry out a research study is called
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Research Methods
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22. The stance or perspective that a practitioner-scholar adopts in order to understand a particular problem of practice is called
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Research Methodology
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23. Research design is an overall plan to study a problem of practice.
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True
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24. Research is an ______ investigation designed to make sense of complex, everyday problems that impact classroom teachers, teacher leaders, and school and district administrators.
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Systematic
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25. 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
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Quantitative Research
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26. 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
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Quantitative Methodologie
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27. 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
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Qualitative Research
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28. An umbrella term that encompasses those methodologies that take an interpretative, inductive approach to the study of human experience and social world.is called
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Qualitative Methodologie
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29. Problems of Practice describes the common, everyday challenges that confront classroom teachers, teacher leaders, and school and district administrator
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True
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30. 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.
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True
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31. 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
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Post-Positivist Paradigm
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32. 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
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Positivist Paradigm
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33. A philosophical concept that refers to the nature of reality and the assumptions related to what exist is called
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Ontology
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34. An approach to research that uses both qualitative and quantitative research methods to make sense of a research question and/or problem. Is called
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Mixed Methods Research
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35. A research approach that combines qualitative and ______. research methods to answer a research question of interest is called mix methods
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Quantitative
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36. Improvement-oriented research that seeks to address practice and is concerned with identifying what could be if particular actions or reforms were adopted.
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True
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37. Research that enables researchers to generate theoretical understandings of current practices, programs, processes, and policies is called
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Explanatory Research
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38. 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
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Epistemology
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39. Which research provides important information about ‘what is’ and thus provides opportunities to understand and critique existing practices in the education system.?
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Descriptive Research
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40. 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
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‘Ethnicity
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41. 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.
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True
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42. Research that aims to generate new knowledge and understanding about a topic of interest is called
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Basic Research
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43. Research that aims to understand a problem of practice and uses this understanding to address the problem of practice is called
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Applied Research
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44. A research approach that seeks to use a systematic process of research to improve practices and/or processes is called
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Action Research
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