WGU Research Foundations (C224)

WGU Research Foundations (C224) EXAM GRADED A LATEST 2023/2024 Non-Experimental Research Methods - CORRECT ANSWER Correlation and Casual Comparative Correlation research method - CORRECT ANSWER 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 - CORRECT ANSWER Strength and direction of a relationship between two variables. range of +1 to -1 Positive Correlation - CORRECT ANSWER r=+1 (points follow along a line) Negative Correlation - CORRECT ANSWER r=-1 (no correlation is a 0 and looks like a gun shot all over) Variable - CORRECT ANSWER a condition or characteristic that can take on different values or categories (such as age, GPA, gender, etc.) Descriptive Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER Goal is to describe, summarize, or make sense of a particular set of data. Inferential Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER where researchers use the laws of probability to make inferences about populations based on sample data. Strengths of Quantitative Research - CORRECT ANSWER -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 - CORRECT ANSWER Collects text or imagery data to gain a deeper understanding of existing phenomena, gain insight on insider perspective. Exploration, discovery, understanding Quantitative Research Purpose - CORRECT ANSWER Collect numerical data. Purpose is to describe, predict, control, or explain. Narrow lens approach (topdown) Linguistic-relativity hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER (assumptions of qualitative research) Intuits' local languages might allow them to see distinctions that you do not notice. Empathetic Understanding - CORRECT ANSWER (assumptions of qualitative research) I can appreciate where you're coming from. I have an interest in you Ontology (Qualitative Assumption) - CORRECT ANSWER (inherit understanding) Take on personal, mental, subjective, personal, constructed Epistemology (Qualitative Assumption) - CORRECT ANSWER (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 - CORRECT ANSWER selecting participants because they meet the criteria or purpose of the study. Phenomenology - CORRECT ANSWER Rich narrative allowing researcher to vicariously experience the phenomenon through the eyes of the participant. Purpose: Describing the individuals experience of the phenomena. Ethnography - CORRECT ANSWER Extensive physical description of the physical and social settings aimed at holistic understanding. Purpose: Describing cultural characteristics of a group of people Narrative Inquiry - CORRECT ANSWER including patterns, connections, and insights uncovered and carefully synthesized. Purpose: Describing people's lives/stories to add to our understanding. Chronological story Case Study - CORRECT ANSWER 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 - CORRECT ANSWER 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.