WGU IT FOUNDATIONS –D316 2024 COMPTIA A+ CORE 1 EXAM PREP LATEST UPDATED VERSION ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS)

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A teacher has noticed that students in her math class are not performing well on h
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er end of semester exam. She suspects that their lack of interest in math is affectin
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g their ability to perform. She decides to integrate computerized math games into
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her curriculum and see if it has an impact on the end of semester exam scores.
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What is the objective of this research project? -
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✔✔✔ ANSWER > To solve a local problem in her classroom
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What outcome of educational research is used to support a theory or concept? -
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✔✔✔ ANSWER > Evidence
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A researcher hypothesizes that kindergarten students can increase vocabulary ret
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ention by drawing pictures of new words learned.
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Which research should be used to conduct this study? -
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✔✔✔ ANSWER > Basic research
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A researcher hypothesizes that master's prepared business administration gradua
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tes who are male get hired faster and are paid a higher salary than their female cou
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nterparts.


Which research will be used to conduct this study? -
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✔✔✔ ANSWER > Orientational research
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,Carefully aligned strategies were developed for a reading intervention program af
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ter analyzing data from a series of surveys and experiments. At the conclusion of th
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e program, 64% of participants were reported reading at or above grade level.
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Which kind of research was implemented in this scenario? -
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✔✔✔ ANSWER > Evaluation research
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What is the purpose of evidence in research? - ✔✔✔ ANSWER > Support theories
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What is the purpose of a hypothesis in a quantitative study? -
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✔✔✔ ANSWER > It provides an educated guess about the relationship between v
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Which major research approach is based on the assumption that objective truths e
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xist in the world and can be discovered? - ✔✔✔ ANSWER > Quantitative
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What are quantitative researchers primarily interested in examining? - ✔✔✔
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ANSWER > Hypotheses e e




What is one strength of quantitative research? -
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✔✔✔ ANSWER > Quantitative research can be used to test and validate existing t
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heories.
Researchers seeking to eliminate spider phobias among young children conducted
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a study in which each participant was presented with a live spider. Group A particip
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ants were asked to describe their emotional response to the spider. Group B partici
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pants were asked to describe the room they were in. All participants rated their fea
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r of the spider on a scale from 1 to 100.
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What is the dependent variable in this study? - ✔✔✔ ANSWER > The fear rating
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Researchers who were studying stress found that teenagers with high stress also ha
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d some negative physical symptoms. Symptoms included a suppressed immune syst
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em and increased blood pressure.
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,Which statement represents the relationship between these variables? - ✔✔✔
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ANSWER > Stress is positively correlated with physical ailments.
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As one variable is manipulated, it directly brings about change in a second variable.
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What is the variable called that is being manipulated? -
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✔✔✔ ANSWER > Independent variable
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A researcher wanted to know if students in rural areas had different study skills tha
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n students in urban areas. She gave a chapter about "life in the city" to 50 urban an
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d 50 rural students and asked them to study it. A week later, she gave them all a tes
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t to see how much they had learned.
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What is a critical limitation of this quantitative study? -
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e✔✔✔ ANSWER > The content of the chapter would be more familiar to one group
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Which method of data collection would qualitative researchers be likely to use? -
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✔✔✔ ANSWER > Observations in natural environments
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A researcher has formulated specific research questions about one school's high a
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bsenteeism among its freshman student population. The researcher plans to cond
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uct in-depth analyses of this population using multiple sources of data.
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Which theoretical framework is this researcher using? -
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✔✔✔ ANSWER > Case study
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A qualitative researcher wants to collect data on a phenomenon and then develop
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a theory that describes the data.
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Which research design should this researcher choose? -
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✔✔✔ ANSWER > Grounded theory
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, What is one strength of qualitative research? -
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✔✔✔ ANSWER > The research can be conducted in a natural setting.
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Which assumption about the nature of knowledge characterizes qualitative resear
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ch? - ✔✔✔ ANSWER > It is personal
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What is one limitation of qualitative research? -
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e✔✔✔ ANSWER > Researcher's biases can easily influence results for this approach
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Which goal indicates a developmental purpose for choosing a mixed-
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method design? - e e



✔✔✔ ANSWER > The researcher wants to describe a phenomenon in detail, then
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use the descriptions to construct a survey.
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What impact does the time orientation criterion have on the design of mixed meth
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ods research? -
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✔✔✔ ANSWER > It involves the decision of whether to conduct the quantitative a
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nd qualitative components concurrently or sequentially.
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What is one reason for choosing a mixed-
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methods design over a qualitative or quantitative design? -
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✔✔✔ ANSWER > Mixed-
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methods designs can produce more integrated knowledge.
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Compared to the other major research approaches, what is the main strength of mi
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xed methods research? -
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✔✔✔ ANSWER > It produces integrated knowledge that informs theory and practi
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Which research method has the strength of being able to include words, pictures, a
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nd narrative to add meaning to numbers? - ✔✔✔ ANSWER > Mixed methods
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Which assumption characterizes action research? -
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✔✔✔ ANSWER > Theory and research can be integrated with practice.
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Which research approach views research with the attitude of being both a practiti
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oner and a researcher? - ✔✔✔ ANSWER > Action
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A community organization that offers English language classes to non-
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native speakers wants to employ action research to determine whether adding m
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ultimedia learning options to its offerings would be beneficial.
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