Interdisciplinary Studies Quiz # 7

Critical thinking is analysis and evaluation.

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Data and methods are deemed valid if it is likely that similar results would be found if the study were replicated or performed again under similar conditions.

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Two guidelines for critically analyzing a disciplinary work are its depth and breadth.

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Perhaps the most common reason for lack of clarity is the author’s use of technical jargon.

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An interdisciplinary approach to critical thinking about disciplinary work is extremely complex.

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What are the four commonly used approaches to achieve integration?

Contextualization, illustration, problem-centering, and the Broad Model

Contextualization, conceptualization, problem-centering, and the Broad Model

Contextualization, conceptualization, problem-solving, and diversification

Contextualization, conceptualization, problem-solving, and problem-centering

Contextualization involves ______.

Embedding the object of study in the fabric of time, culture, and personal experience

Making meaning from different concepts that, on the surface, have no apparent connection or commonality

Using issues of public debate, product development, or policy intervention as focal points for making connections between disciplines and integrating their insights

Identifying which discipline is most relevant to study a particular topic or social issue

A limitation of the conceptualization approach is that it ______.

Limits the depth of disciplinary connections to disciplines and their insights that are epistemologically different

Obscures the process by which integration occurs

Involves making meaning from different concepts that, on the surface, have no apparent connection or commonality

Focuses on the sciences

When a new product is sought, a new policy intervention, a new medical treatment, or a new response to an environmental concern, a good approach would be ______.

Problem-solving

Problem-centering

Contextualization

Integration

Interdisciplinary integration is ______.

An aspect of multidisciplinarity

The culmination of all interdisciplinary research

The cognitive process of analyzing common ground

The cognitive process of critically evaluating disciplinary insights and creating common ground among them to construct a more comprehensive understanding

The Broad Model subsumes the approaches of conceptualization and contextualization but not problem-centering.

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Interdisciplinarians have developed four approaches to integration.

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Contextualization is an approach used by humanists and those in the fine and performing arts to embed the object of study in the fabric of time, culture, and personal experience.

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Redefinition involves mapping the different arguments made by different authors.

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Theory extension involves placing seeming opposites along a continuum.

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The Broad Model has ______ steps.

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The first step in the Broad Model is to ______.

Define the problem or state the research question

Justify using an interdisciplinary response

Conduct a literature review

Decide what your opinion on the problem is

A sentence in your interdisciplinary research that includes a phrase such as “I am seeking to answer this question in order to . . . ” suggests that you are ______.

Addressing the “so what” part of Step 1 of the Broad Model

Clarifying the scope of your question

Using the rhetorical device of persuasion in your paper

Crafting your conclusion

Domestic violence is a problem that would be suitable for interdisciplinary investigation because ______.

The problem is complex and deals with phenomena in the purview of several disciplines

The problem has been suitably dealt with

Sociology would be the only discipline needed

Domestic violence would not be a suitable problem for interdisciplinary investigation

Disciplinary bias, disciplinary jargon, and personal bias are ______.

Inescapable for interdisciplinarians

Inescapable for multidisciplinarians

The three tendencies that run counter to the interdisciplinary process

The three tendencies of people conducting interdisciplinary process

The Broad Model is the preferred research method of interdisciplinarians.

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A good research question conveys the focus of the study in an easy-to-understand sentence or two.

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Complexity is a key criterion that justifies discipline-specific research.

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In general, the approach of interdisciplinary research is to study a particular phenomenon or process using one or two of the dozen or so specialized methods employed across the scholarly enterprise.

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What are the first four steps in the Broad Model?

Justify an interdisciplinary response, identify a problem or define a research question, identify relevant disciplines, complete a literature review

Identify a problem or define a research question, justify an interdisciplinary response, identify relevant disciplines, complete a literature review

Complete a literature review, justify an interdisciplinary response, identify a problem or define a research question, identify relevant disciplines

Identify a problem or define a research question, justify an interdisciplinary response, identify relevant disciplines, complete a reflection

When conducting a literature review, you ______.

Craft the question so that it conveys the focus of the study in an easy-to-understand sentence or two

Define the scope or boundaries of the study and characterize the study as interdisciplinary

Answer the “so what” question

Are looking for insights related to your research topic from different disciplinary perspectives

A sentence in your interdisciplinary research that includes a phrase such as “I am seeking to answer this question in order to . . . ” suggests that you are ______.

Addressing the “so what” part of Step 1 of the Broad Model

Clarifying the scope of your question

Using the rhetorical device of persuasion in your paper

Crafting your conclusion

Skimming the disciplinary literature may guide you to narrow the focus of your research question. This is an action that should be performed as part of ______.

Step 2--justify an interdisciplinary response

Step 3--identify relevant disciplines

Step 4--conduct a literature review

Step 5--critically analyze the disciplinary insights into the problem and locate their sources of conflict

You identify Environmental Studies as a relevant discipline in your examination of the complex problem of climate change. Since this is an interdisciplinary field, you should ______.

Not include this interdisciplinary field in your exploration

Determine that this problem is best studied from a single disciplinary perspective

Include Environmental Studies in your investigation but not include it in your table for Step 4

Consult journals associated with Environmental Studies as interdisciplinary fields have their own journals and scholarly organizations

Nodes are the important concepts or the phenomena under study.

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Quiz:	Interdisciplinary Studies Quiz # 7
Subject:	Thinking About Disciplinary Insights
Total Questions:	30 MCQs
Time:	30 Minutes