What is to identify cause and effects of social phenomena and to predict how one phenomenon will change or vary in response to variation in some other phenomenon?
100
The purpose of evaluative research
What is to describe or identify the impact of social programs and policies?
200
The type of research methods more often used in exploratory studies
What are qualitative methods?
200
An example of a descriptive study that provides a wide variety of characteristics about the U.S. population
What is the U.S. census?
200
The "question word" most often used in explanatory research
What is why?
200
Other frequently used terms for "evaluation research"
What are program evaluation and practice evaluation?
300
A smaller, preliminary version of a larger study
What is a pilot study?
300
A type of research often used for descriptive purposes
What is survey research?
300
The three things required for determining cause and effect
What are 1) ruling our other explanations (non-spuriousness); 2) time order between events; 3) relationship between two events?
300
Evaluative research may involve these other research purposes
What are exploration, description, and explanation?
400
What exploratory research seeks to do
What is find out how people get along in the setting under question, what meanings they give to their actions, and what issues concern them?
400
The primary focus of initial research about an issue
What is descriptive research?
400
An example of a quantitative study with an explanatory purpose (there will be many correct answers)
What is???
400
To assess whether a program is achieving its objectives with a specific group
What is the intent of evaluation research?
500
The type of information exploratory studies typically gather
What is large amounts of relatively unstructured information?
500
The goal of descriptive qualitative studies?
What is to provide a thicker examination of phenomena and their deeper meanings?
500
An example of a qualitative study with an explanatory purpose (there will be many correct answers)
What is ???
500
An example of a research study with an evaluative purpose (there will be many correct answers)