WGU C224 – STUDY SET ACTUAL EXAM UPDATED 2025/2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED SOLUTIONS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS!!! <NEWEST VERSION>

WGU C224 – STUDY SET ACTUAL EXAM UPDATED 2025/2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED SOLUTIONS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS!!! &lt;NEWEST VERSION&gt; Basic Research - ANSWER pure research that aims to confirm an existing theory or to learn more about a concept or phenomenon Applied research - ANSWER research undertaken to solve a specific problem Intensity sampling - ANSWER (qual) selecting participants who permit study of different levels of the research topic; i.e. Select some good and some poor students, experienced and inexperienced teachers, or teachers with small and large classes Homogenous sampling - ANSWER (qual) selecting participants who are very similar in experience, perspective, or outlook. Produces a narrow, homogenous sample - makes data collection and analysis simple Criterion sampling - ANSWER (qual) selecting all cases that meet some set of criteria or have some characteristics. Researcher might select students who have been held back in 2 successive years or teachers who left the profession to raise children and then return to teaching Snowball sampling - ANSWER (qual) selecting more participants than needed for the study. I.e. if 25 participants were purposively selected by researcher but only 10 could take part a random sample of 10 from 25 potential participants would be chosen. This strategy adds credibility to study although initial sample based on purposive selection Random purposive sampling - ANSWER (qual) selecting more participants than needed for the study. i.e. if 25 were purposively selected by researcher but only 10 could take part a random sample of 10 from 25 potential participants would be chosen. This strategy ads credibility to study although initial sample based on purposive selection Achievement tests - ANSWER test that measures individual's current proficiency in given areas of knowledge or skill. Provide info re: how well test takers have learned material introduced. Standardized. Standard deviation - ANSWER a computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score Aptitude tests - ANSWER test to predict how well an individual is likely to perform in a future situation variance - ANSWER a difference between what is expected and what actually occurs Affective tests - ANSWER test to measure affective characteristics - related to emotion, such as attitude, interest, and value. "Which would you prefer?" Pearson r - ANSWER used to correlate interval or ratio data Projective tests - ANSWER test that is ambiguous and not obvious to respondents. Respondents project their true feelings or thoughts in an ambiguous stimulus. -Rorschach inkblots, word associations Analysis of variance - ANSWER ... quartile deviation - ANSWER one half the difference between the upper quartile and the lower quartile in a distribution Wilcoxon signed-rank - ANSWER ... Spearman rho - ANSWER Correlation between ranks Action Research - ANSWER studies undertaken by practitioners in schools that address an actual problem or issue in the school or classroom. descriptive research - ANSWER Refers to research that describes an existing or past phenomenon in quantitative terms. inductive research - ANSWER the type of research in which general conclusions are drawn from specific data; compared to deductive research refereed journal - ANSWER articles reviewed by a panel of experts in the field, thus seen as more scholarly and trustworthy than articles from non-refereed or popular journals interval variable - ANSWER is a variable that has numbers as its values; the distance (or interval) between pairs of consecutive numbers is assumed to be equal ratio variable - ANSWER A variable that meets the criteria for interval variables but also has a meaningful zero point