Action Research MCQ PDF

What is the goal of action research? ✓ - To bring about desired change ✗ - To conduct systematic investigations ✗ - To promote social action ✗ - To understand social arrangement Who coined the term 'action research'? ✗ - Glassman ✗ - Hughes ✓ - Kurt Lewin ✗ - Maree What is another name for action re...

What is the goal of action research? ✓ - To bring about desired change ✗ - To conduct systematic investigations ✗ - To promote social action ✗ - To understand social arrangement Who coined the term 'action research'? ✗ - Glassman ✗ - Hughes ✓ - Kurt Lewin ✗ - Maree What is another name for action research? ✗ - Cooperative Enquiry ✗ - Action Learning ✓ - Participatory Action Research (PAR) ✗ - Action Science What are the characteristics of action research? ✗ - Is a linear process ✓ - Contributes to knowledge creation and improved practice simultaneously ✗ - Focuses on theoretical advances ✗ - Does not involve collaboration What is the cyclical process of action research? ✗ - Introduction, selection, and data generation ✓ - Planning, implementing, and reflecting ✗ - Problem identification, solution development, and modification ✗ - Data collection, analysis, and reporting What is the participatory character of action research? ✗ - Relies solely on the researchers ✗ - Does not involve sharing power ✓ - Recognizes the interdependence of human connection and values collaboration ✗ - Excludes children and young people What is the interactive form of knowledge development in action research? ✗ - Limited to theoretical knowledge ✗ - Excludes practical knowledge ✓ - Underpinned by a democratic impulse ✗ - Focused on individual knowledge What are the hybrid forms of action research? ✗ - Exploratory action research, descriptive action research, problem-solving action research, scientific action research ✓ - Technical action research, practical action research, participatory action research, emancipatory action research ✗ - Individual action research, team-based action research, organisational action research, societal action research ✗ - Theoretical action research, methodological action research, practical action research, ethical action research What are the phases of the Layered Action Research Cycle? ✗ - Identification, Development, Collection, Analysis, Modification ✓ - Practice, Reflection, Research, Planning, Action ✗ - Introduction, Selection, Agendas, Data Generation, Implementation ✗ - Planning, Implementation, Analysis, Reporting, Evaluation Where is action research used? ✗ - Government agencies, corporate companies, financial institutions ✓ - Classrooms, schools, clinics, non-government organizations, faith-based organizations, service providers ✗ - Hospitals, medical centers, healthcare facilities ✗ - Laboratories, research institutions, universities What is the purpose of developing support programs at the school level? ✗ - To generate supportive experiences in classrooms ✗ - To support early learning among young preschool children ✓ - To promote optimal nutrition in school-age children ✗ - To partner with educators for high-school learners' self-development What does the term 'hybridising' refer to in the context of action research? ✗ - Understanding the influences of independent variables on dependent variables ✓ - Combining qualitative and quantitative methods ✗ - Collecting data in various locations ✗ - Interpreting and applying action research principles What is the main focus of design in action research? ✗ - Generating data and expanding professional practices ✓ - Finding solutions and creating improved practices ✗ - Addressing specific practical issues ✗ - Gaining clarity and insight into phenomena What are the paradigmatic lenses selected when choosing action research inquiry? ✗ - Research, practice, and intervention can coexist ✗ - Blurred boundaries exist between aspects of a research process ✓ - Multiple realities exist ✗ - Involvement and empowerment of participants support social change What is the first step in conducting action research? ✗ - Development of a plan of action ✗ - Analyzing data and forming conclusions ✓ - Identification of the problem ✗ - Collection of data What is the purpose of developing a plan of action in action research? ✗ - To modify theory and repeat the research cycle ✓ - To determine what needs to be done to address the identified problem ✗ - To collect data that will help understand if the plan succeeds ✗ - To report the results of the research What is the main focus of data collection in action research? ✗ - To draw provisional conclusions from the analysis ✗ - To examine the data during the collection process ✗ - To modify the plan of action and repeat the research cycle ✓ - To collect information that will result in accurate and meaningful data What is the purpose of analyzing data and forming conclusions in action research? ✗ - To share the findings and discuss the results ✗ - To collect additional data to confirm the conclusions ✓ - To refine the action plan and draw final conclusions ✗ - To modify the theory and repeat the research cycle What is the final step in conducting action research? ✗ - Developing a plan of action ✓ - Reporting the results ✗ - Modifying the theory and repeating the research cycle ✗ - Identifying the problem What are the strengths of action research? ✗ - It focuses on research that enables action ✗ - It relies on concrete, visual, and careful methods ✓ - It addresses practical problems in a positive way ✗ - It pays careful attention to power relationships What is a settlement community? ✗ - Ten female primary school educators initially participated ✓ - A school as access point to the community ✗ - During the dissemination phase of the STAR project, educators who initially participated identified some neighbouring schools as potential cases where the intervention could be replicated ✗ - In this case the school principal randomly identified educators to participate in the research What are the agendas, research purposes, and negotiations in the research process? ✗ - For example multiple postgraduates students research (which constituted the STAR intervention development phase) was to explore the relationship between coping with HIV and AIDS and the asset-based approach ✗ - In addition based on the needs and agendas of the participation, the project intervention was disseminated to several other schools and subsequently adapted and implemented in the mom-educator environment of volunteer care work ✗ - In the negotiation process its suggested that researchers obtain stills that may be helpful in co-creating meaningful research accounts that arise from the lived experiences of communities as well as the subjectivity of a researcher ✓ - The research purpose have been aligned with the agendas of the research partners as voiced during continuous discussions and joint reflection sessions even though the various research teams entered the field with proposed agenda in all cases What are the PRA based activities for data generation and documentation? ✗ - Modelling ✗ - Diagramming ✓ - Mapping ✗ - Participants have been involved in the creation of maps and spatial diagrams throughout the research What do participants do during mapping activities in the research? ✗ - Form small discussion group ✗ - After the small groups discussions, representatives present their ideas to broader groups, while the research team compiles a summary of discussions that transpire and the data that has been generated ✗ - Mapping their ideas on colourful posters ✓ - Brainstorm a question posed to them