RESEARCH CONCEPTS

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Research Concepts Quiz

Test your understanding of fundamental research concepts with this comprehensive quiz. Designed for teachers, students, and researchers alike, this quiz covers key elements such as paradigms, methodologies, and literature reviews.

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Paradigms are

Psychological, social and cultural beliefs held by people

A a hierarchy of ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions held by researchers

Frameworks that regard social and legal structures as inherently discriminatory

Worldviews that regard reality as objective and methods of research reliant on observation and measurement

The 3 dominant research paradigms are

Ontology, methdology and critical realism

Positivism, ontology and epistemology

Critical realism, methodology and epistemology

Critical realism, interpretivism, positivism

Which are the five components of paradigms

Ontology, epistemology, metatheory, methodology, axiology

Ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, pragmatism, constructivism

Epsitemology, realism, idealism, ontology, metatheory

Ontology, epistemology, metatheory, axiology, critical realism

Which paradigm will be most suitable to understand how learners are coping with catch up programmes now that schools have returned to normal

Critical realism

Positivism

Interpretivism

Qualitative

What are the components of a good research question?

Question, participants, context and phenomenon

Verb, participants, context and phenomenon

Question, participants, context and method

Paradigm, participants, tools and analysis

Which of the following is a proper objective

To understand Grade 7 teachers' experiences of the implementation of White paper 6

To show Grade 6 learners' ideas of classroom discipline

To explain Grade 10 female learners' experiences of gender discrimation in public schools

To know how high school principals encourage learner participation in inter school sports

A literature review is a summary and critical review of the existing state of research from academic articles, journals, etc related to your topic of interest

True

False

Which is the best process for a literature review?

Do a random search on the internet and use all the articles that are identified

Find one article that relates to your study and search and use that author's reference list

Search resources, identify concepts in the articles that relate to your topic

First identify main concepts in your study, access library databases, find relevant articles, refine searches

Whch one of the following statements is incorrect about theoretical framworks?

A structured set of lenses through which aspects or parts of the world can be observed, studied or analysed

In the Social Sciences, scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment

A coherent and systematic ordering of ideas, concepts and models, with a purpose of constructing meaning to explain, to interpret, to shape practice

Theories are formulated to explain, predict, and understand phenomena and, in many cases, to challenge and extend existing knowledge

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