A Researcher Wanted to Understand Why So Many High School

question 40

Multiple Choice

A researcher wanted to understand why so many high school freshmen were failing mathematics. She first conducted in-depth interviews with 10 participants and then used this information to construct a structured questionnaire to be administered to a random sample of freshmen. This is an example of:

• A) Expansion
• B) Initiation
• C) Development
• D) Triangulation

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Definitions:

Terrible Sufferings

Experiences of extreme pain, distress, or hardship.

First Cause

A philosophical concept suggesting that everything has a cause, and there must be an initial uncaused cause that started the chain of events in the universe.

Always Existed

A concept referring to something that has had no beginning, and has been in existence for an infinite amount of time.

Baruch Spinoza

A Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin, known for his work in ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, emphasizing monism – the idea that there is only one substance in the universe.