RSCH 201 Post-Assessment

What are the general steps and sequence in the design process for researchers in the Creative Arts?

Analysis, discussion, design, concept development, prototype, implementation, delivery

Why do researchers need to consider the philosophical worldview assumptions they bring to their research?

Because worldviews shape approaches to research, the questions asked, and the methods used

Which of the following would NOT be a project in the Humanities? -History -Literature -Music -Biology

Biology

Which of the following elements is NOT necessary in a Humanities research project? -Providing proper credit to previous researchers -Collecting permission from its human subjects -Giving an ethical reading of a primary source -Contextualizing (historically, socially, et al) the primary source

Collecting permission from its human subjects

Choose the most important consideration in a Creative Arts research project: -Creative process -Iterative design -Reflective practice -Interdisciplinary approach

Creative process

Formal review of the literature/existing works on the topic includes all of the following, EXCEPT: -Summarizing and synthesizing the related literature -Developing context for the proposed research -Describing the procedures and methods for the proposed research study/creative project -Framing the problem and/or gap in the literature on the proposed topic of study

Describing the procedures and methods for the proposed research study/creative project

What are the general steps and sequence in the research process for researchers in the sciences/social sciences?

Identify a problem, develop research questions, select a research design, collect data, analyze data, present findings, discuss findings

Qualitative inquiry is characterized by:

In depth understanding of a phenomenon experienced by purposeful selection of individuals who have experienced or have insight into the phenomenon

Which of the following is NOT a quantitative design? -True experimental -Narrative inquiry -Causal comparative/ex post facto -Quasi-experimental

Narrative inquiry

Which of the following reflects the quantitative researcher's paradigm for research? -Social constructivist -Transformative -Positivist -Pragmatic

Positivist

Case study, phenomenology, grounded theory, and ethnography are all examples of ______________ research designs.

Qualitative

Creative arts research methods could be characterized by all of the following EXCEPT: -Competitor analysis and inquiry -Marketing analysis -Visual ethnography -Quantitative inquiry

Quantitative inquiry

What is the best research method for answering the following research question: Are there differences in levels of anxiety experienced by college freshmen compared to college sophomores?

Quantitative inquiry

Choose the most important consideration in a Humanities research project: -The ultimate answer to the project -The process chosen for the research project -The questions being asked in the research project -The subject being studied

The questions being asked in the research project

What is the definition of praxis?

Theory informed action

What is the purpose of the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?

To ensure your proposed research is ethical and protects human subjects and animals

Why do researchers review existing literature/artifacts/creative works in the early stages of the research process?

To establish context and argument for their study/creative project

Quantitative inquiry is characterized by all of the following, EXCEPT: -Goal is to generalize findings from the sample to a target population -Used to test or verify hypotheses -Reliance on objective instruments for examining relationships between variables -Unstructured, flexible, emergent methodology

Unstructured, flexible, emergent methodology

To arrive at the central question in a qualitative study, the researcher asks:

What is the broadest question that I can ask?

In _____________ inquiry researchers use theory as a lens that shapes their perceptions; in _____________ inquiry researchers use theory to form and test hypotheses

qualitative; quantitative