Scientific Theory

What is the significance of scientific theories?

• Provides extensive evidence of valid and reliable methods for measuring each concept and relational statements

• Development of propositions that can be tested from focused evidence that uses valid and reliable methods

• Provides focused evidence of valid and reliable methods for measuring concepts and relational statements

• Provides extensive evidence of valid and reliable methods for measuring each concept and relational statements from which propositions can be developed and tested

What is the relationship between research and theory as well as research and practice?

• is based on independence and inseparability

• is based on dependence and separability

• is based on empirical evidence and anecdotal evidence

What is the nature of scientific theory?

• Formulated from practical experiences and tested

• Formulated from perceived experiences and tested

• Systematically and rigorously formulated and tested

Theoretical framework is synonymous to conceptual framework?

• Agree

• Disagree

What is the most abstract theory called?

• Practice Theory

• Middle-Range Theory

• Growth Theory

• Metatheory

What are the next levels of abstraction?

• Paradigm. models and growth

• Models, paradigm and epistemology

• Models, paradigm and philosophy

• Models, philosophy and ontology

What is the nature of reality? is an example of___

• Epistemology

• Ontology

What is epistemology?

• knowledge of that reality

• knowledge of the nature of reality

• knowledge about set assumptions of reality

• Knowledge of the abstract assumptions of reality

What are the three main paradigmatic approaches relevant to science?

• Positivism, critical thinking and optimism

• positivism, critical theory and interpretivism

• positivism, critical theory and pessimism

What is the definition of a theoretical framework?

• Based on proportional statements resulting from an existing theory and integrates observations and facts into an orderly scheme

• developed through identifying and defining concepts and proposing relationships between them