Which item was not discussed as a common feature of social scientific research?

Collaborative

Cumulative

Self-Corrective

Mathematical

Communication-Based

Joey’s first task as a new employee at a Technology firm is to write a computer program to perform a predictable task. Joey can use any of a dozen computer programming languages and has great flexibility in how the task is completed. The finished program will be evaluated by a supervisor to determine whether it performs the task exactly as requested. Which label is the best description of this task?

 Critical-Thinking

Problem-Solving

Gap-Filling

Primary Research

Serendipity

Which of the following orders of steps is acceptable when conducting social science research?

Ask the research question –> Formulate Hypothesis –> Data Collection –> Data Analysis –> Evaluating Hypothesis

Ask the research question –> Data Collection –> Formulate Hypothesis –> Data Analysis –> Re-formulate Hypothesis –> Evaluating Hypothesis

Ask the research question –> Analyze Existing Data –> Formulate Hypothesis –> Evaluating Hypothesis

Ask the research question –> Formulate Hypothesis –> Data Collection –> Revise the research question –> Data Collection –> Data Analysis –> Revise the research question –> Evaluating Hypothesis

Any of the above procedures could generate quality social science research

To assist writers in overcoming perfectionism and other obstacles to writing, Booth et al. suggest that it is helpful to think of a research report as a carefully-planned ______________ between the author(s) and the future reader(s). 

argument

conversation

network

chain

transfer of knowledge

At which of these stages of the research process can technology be helpful or beneficial?

Asking the research question

Formulating the Hypothesis

Data Collection

Data Analysis

Evaluating Hypothesis

All of the Above

Which of the following is the most broadly shared element in many different descriptions and models of the social science research process regardless of field or tradition?

Locating both Theoretical and Methodological source material

Strong Quantitative data as Evidence

The lack of any coherent Theory like that found in physics and biology

The manner of Disseminating Results

Systematization and Documentation

TRUE/FALSE: Compressing three MS Word documents into a .zip file would allow a user to send these three files as a single email attachment or upload them to Canvas as a single file.

True

False