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WGU C224 Research Foundations
Pre-Assessment Exam
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1. What is the purpose of evidence in research?
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ANS Support theories
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2. A group of teachers at an elementary school plans to study the effects of team
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teaching science to their second-grade students.
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What type of research will they be engaged in?
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ANS Action
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3. A person makes the following statement A friend has parked in the same parki
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ng space for over a year now. Most likely, this friend will park there again tomorro
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What type of reasoning is this person using?
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ANS Inductive reasoning
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4. A research wheel is shown in the figure below Which arrow represents the ind
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uctive method? g




ANS The Exploratory arrow
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, 5. Theories A and B provide explanations for variance in students' academic per
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formance. Both theories explain performance well; however, Theory A is more c
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Which approach for evaluating quality is applied to determine that Theory A is p
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g ANS The rule of parsimony
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6. An educational researcher is evaluating the effectiveness of a math tutoring pr
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ogram for middle school students which aims to increase student test scores.
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What is the primary objective of this educational researcher?
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g ANS To influence
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7. Which research approach aims to analyze and interpret numerical data ex
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clusively?

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8. Which two views are consistent with the assumptions of quantitative re-
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search?
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g ANS Human behavior is regular. Predictable behavior allows forhypothesis developmen
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9. What type of statistics allows quantitative researchers to draw conclusions ab
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out populations?
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ANS Inferential
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