WGU C224 Research Foundations Pre-Assessment Exam Questions and Answers (Verified Answers) 1. What is the purpose of evidence in research? ANS Support theories 2. A group of teachers at an elementary school plans to study the effects of team teaching science to their second-grade students. What type of research will they be engaged in? ANS Action 3. A person makes the following statement A friend has parked in the same parking space for over a year now. Most likely, this friend will park there again tomorrow. What type of reasoning is this person using? ANS Inductive reasoning 4. A research wheel is shown in the figure below Which arrow represents the inductive method? ANS The Exploratory arrow 5. Theories A and B provide explanations for variance in students' academic performance. Both theories explain performance well; however, Theory A is more concise and succinct. Which approach for evaluating quality is applied to determine that Theory A is preferred for explaining the phenomenon? ANS The rule of parsimony 6. An educational researcher is evaluating the effectiveness of a math tutoring program for middle school students which aims to increase student test scores. What is the primary objective of this educational researcher? ANS To influence 7. Which research approach aims to analyze and interpret numerical data exclusively? ANS Quantitative 8. Which two views are consistent with the assumptions of quantitative re- search? Choose 2 answers ANS Human behavior is regular. Predictable behavior allows for hypothesis development. 9. What type of statistics allows quantitative researchers to draw conclusions about populations? ANS Inferential
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