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PostTest #2
Chapters 4, 5, 6

Student's name: ___________________________________

1. Place the following steps of the research process in the correct order:

2. Do the three steps mentioned above go from more general to more specific, or more specific to more general? ________________________________

3. List the items that DePoy suggests we take into consideration as we try to frame the problem for a research study:

a. ___________________________________

c. ___________________________________

d. ___________________________________

e. ___________________________________

f. ___________________________________

4. List 4 reasons for reviewing the literature on the problem you are investigating in a research study:

b.______________________________________________________________________

c.______________________________________________________________________

d.______________________________________________________________________

6. Listed below are six steps necessary in conducting a literature review. Put them in order:

A. Access databases for periodicals, books, and documents

B. Critically evaluate the literature

C. Determine when to conduct a search

D. Organize information

E. Write the literature review

F. Delimit what is searched

7. Put the following terms in order, increasing in levels of abstraction:

a. _________________________________
b. _________________________________
c. _________________________________
d. _________________________________

8. The higher the level of abstraction, the more complicated the research design (True or False).

9. Match the following terms with the most correct sentences or phrases:

_____ the fourth level of abstraction
_____ an association of two or more constructs or concepts
_____ the third level of abstraction
_____ the first level of abstraction
_____ a symbolic representation of an observable event
_____ the second level of abstraction
_____ a statement that governs a set of relationships and gives them structure
_____ does not have an observable or directly experienced referent in shared experience

10. When theory is well-developed and fits the phenomenon under investigation, ____________________ (deductive or inductive) studies are likely to be implemented.

11. True or False. A hypothesis is a proposition to be tested or a tentative statement of a relationship between two variables.

I swear that I completed this open-book test by myself, that I did it without the assistance of anyone, and I completed it within 30 minutes.
Signed _________________________________________________________