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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which statement best characterises qualitative research?
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Explanation:
• Qualitative research investigates meanings, experiences, practices and social processes in context.
• It commonly uses textual, verbal, visual or observational evidence rather than relying exclusively on numerical data.
• Interpretation is central because researchers examine how participants or texts construct meaning.
• Experimental manipulation is not a requirement of qualitative inquiry.
• It commonly uses textual, verbal, visual or observational evidence rather than relying exclusively on numerical data.
• Interpretation is central because researchers examine how participants or texts construct meaning.
• Experimental manipulation is not a requirement of qualitative inquiry.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
A case study is primarily designed to:
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Explanation:
• A case study investigates a bounded case such as a person, classroom, institution, event or programme in depth.
• The case is examined within its real-life context rather than being detached from it.
• Multiple sources of evidence may be used to develop a rich account.
• Case studies aim at contextual understanding rather than automatic universal generalisation.
• The case is examined within its real-life context rather than being detached from it.
• Multiple sources of evidence may be used to develop a rich account.
• Case studies aim at contextual understanding rather than automatic universal generalisation.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which qualitative method is most closely associated with prolonged immersion in the culture and practices of a community?
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Explanation:
• Ethnography studies the shared practices, beliefs, language and routines of a cultural or social group.
• It often involves prolonged field engagement, participant observation and interviews.
• Phenomenology focuses on lived experience, while grounded theory develops theory from data.
• Experimental research is based on manipulation and control rather than cultural immersion.
• It often involves prolonged field engagement, participant observation and interviews.
• Phenomenology focuses on lived experience, while grounded theory develops theory from data.
• Experimental research is based on manipulation and control rather than cultural immersion.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Phenomenological research primarily seeks to understand:
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Explanation:
• Phenomenology investigates how individuals experience and make sense of a phenomenon.
• It seeks the structures or meanings of lived experience rather than numerical distribution.
• Interviews and reflective accounts are commonly used sources.
• The researcher interprets participants' descriptions while remaining attentive to assumptions and context.
• It seeks the structures or meanings of lived experience rather than numerical distribution.
• Interviews and reflective accounts are commonly used sources.
• The researcher interprets participants' descriptions while remaining attentive to assumptions and context.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
The central aim of grounded theory is to:
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Explanation:
• Grounded theory aims to generate a theory from data through systematic collection and analysis.
• Coding, constant comparison, memo writing and theoretical sampling are common procedures.
• Existing concepts may inform the study, but the emerging theory must remain grounded in the evidence.
• The approach differs from merely testing a fully predetermined theory.
• Coding, constant comparison, memo writing and theoretical sampling are common procedures.
• Existing concepts may inform the study, but the emerging theory must remain grounded in the evidence.
• The approach differs from merely testing a fully predetermined theory.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Narrative inquiry is most directly concerned with:
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Explanation:
• Narrative inquiry examines stories through which individuals or communities interpret experience.
• It may analyse plot, temporality, voice, identity, turning points and social context.
• Life histories, autobiographical accounts and oral narratives are common materials.
• Its purpose extends beyond merely counting words or testing causal variables.
• It may analyse plot, temporality, voice, identity, turning points and social context.
• Life histories, autobiographical accounts and oral narratives are common materials.
• Its purpose extends beyond merely counting words or testing causal variables.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which interview format uses predetermined guiding questions while allowing the interviewer to probe emerging issues?
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Explanation:
• A semi-structured interview combines an interview guide with flexibility.
• The interviewer asks planned questions but may probe significant responses or alter the order when necessary.
• A structured interview follows a more fixed sequence and wording.
• An unstructured interview is more open-ended and has fewer predetermined prompts.
• The interviewer asks planned questions but may probe significant responses or alter the order when necessary.
• A structured interview follows a more fixed sequence and wording.
• An unstructured interview is more open-ended and has fewer predetermined prompts.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
The principal advantage of a focus group is that it:
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Explanation:
• A focus group produces evidence through guided group interaction.
• Participants may agree, disagree, elaborate or introduce perspectives that individual interviews might not reveal.
• Group influence is part of the data rather than something entirely absent.
• Researchers must manage confidentiality, dominant voices and unequal participation carefully.
• Participants may agree, disagree, elaborate or introduce perspectives that individual interviews might not reveal.
• Group influence is part of the data rather than something entirely absent.
• Researchers must manage confidentiality, dominant voices and unequal participation carefully.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
In participant observation, the researcher:
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Explanation:
• Participant observation involves observing social activity while participating to an appropriate extent.
• The degree of participation may range from limited involvement to sustained membership in the setting.
• Detailed field notes are essential for documenting actions, interactions and context.
• Reflexivity is needed because the researcher's presence may influence what is observed.
• The degree of participation may range from limited involvement to sustained membership in the setting.
• Detailed field notes are essential for documenting actions, interactions and context.
• Reflexivity is needed because the researcher's presence may influence what is observed.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which of the following is the best example of an open-ended interview question?
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Explanation:
• The second question invites a detailed account in the participant's own words.
• Open-ended questions are useful for exploring meanings, experiences and unexpected themes.
• Yes-or-no questions, categories and rating scales restrict the range of possible responses.
• Effective qualitative interviewing uses neutral wording and appropriate follow-up probes.
• Open-ended questions are useful for exploring meanings, experiences and unexpected themes.
• Yes-or-no questions, categories and rating scales restrict the range of possible responses.
• Effective qualitative interviewing uses neutral wording and appropriate follow-up probes.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Thematic analysis is used primarily to:
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Explanation:
• Thematic analysis identifies and interprets recurring patterns of meaning across a qualitative dataset.
• Researchers usually familiarise themselves with the data, code relevant segments and develop themes.
• Themes should be supported by evidence and related to the research question.
• The process requires systematic analysis rather than an unsupported first impression.
• Researchers usually familiarise themselves with the data, code relevant segments and develop themes.
• Themes should be supported by evidence and related to the research question.
• The process requires systematic analysis rather than an unsupported first impression.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
In qualitative analysis, coding refers to:
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Explanation:
• Coding involves attaching labels to meaningful units of textual, verbal, visual or observational data.
• Codes may describe content, actions, processes, emotions or interpretive ideas.
• Related codes can later be grouped into categories or themes.
• Coding does not require reducing all evidence to numerical test scores.
• Codes may describe content, actions, processes, emotions or interpretive ideas.
• Related codes can later be grouped into categories or themes.
• Coding does not require reducing all evidence to numerical test scores.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Which statement best distinguishes a code from a theme?
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Explanation:
• A code is a concise label attached to a particular segment of data.
• A theme is a broader and more interpretive pattern developed across multiple coded segments.
• Several related codes may contribute to one theme.
• Although terminology varies across methods, codes and themes usually perform different analytical functions.
• A theme is a broader and more interpretive pattern developed across multiple coded segments.
• Several related codes may contribute to one theme.
• Although terminology varies across methods, codes and themes usually perform different analytical functions.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Reflexivity in qualitative research requires the researcher to:
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Explanation:
• Reflexivity is the critical examination of the researcher's role in knowledge production.
• It includes attention to assumptions, identity, power relations, choices and interactions with participants.
• Reflexive journals and methodological memos can document this process.
• Reflexivity does not eliminate subjectivity but makes its influence more transparent.
• It includes attention to assumptions, identity, power relations, choices and interactions with participants.
• Reflexive journals and methodological memos can document this process.
• Reflexivity does not eliminate subjectivity but makes its influence more transparent.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which practice most directly strengthens credibility in a qualitative study?
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Explanation:
• Credibility concerns whether the findings are plausible and well supported within the studied context.
• Member checking, prolonged engagement, triangulation and peer debriefing may strengthen credibility.
• These strategies should be used thoughtfully rather than mechanically.
• Contradictory evidence should be analysed rather than suppressed.
• Member checking, prolonged engagement, triangulation and peer debriefing may strengthen credibility.
• These strategies should be used thoughtfully rather than mechanically.
• Contradictory evidence should be analysed rather than suppressed.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Statement I: Qualitative interpretation should remain connected to the data.
Statement II: Interpretation permits the researcher to ignore evidence that complicates an emerging theme.
Statement II: Interpretation permits the researcher to ignore evidence that complicates an emerging theme.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because qualitative claims must be grounded in interviews, observations, documents or other evidence.
• Statement II is incorrect because disconfirming or deviant cases may refine, qualify or challenge an interpretation.
• Responsible interpretation explains how conclusions were developed from the data.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because disconfirming or deviant cases may refine, qualify or challenge an interpretation.
• Responsible interpretation explains how conclusions were developed from the data.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Ethnography
2. Phenomenology
3. Grounded theory
4. Narrative inquiry
List II
A. Development of theory from systematically analysed data
B. Study of lived experience
C. Study of stories and experience over time
D. Study of cultural practices in context
List I
1. Ethnography
2. Phenomenology
3. Grounded theory
4. Narrative inquiry
List II
A. Development of theory from systematically analysed data
B. Study of lived experience
C. Study of stories and experience over time
D. Study of cultural practices in context
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Explanation:
• Ethnography matches D because it investigates cultural practices and meanings in context.
• Phenomenology matches B because it studies lived experience.
• Grounded theory matches A because it develops theory from systematically analysed data.
• Narrative inquiry matches C because it examines stories and the temporal organisation of experience.
• Phenomenology matches B because it studies lived experience.
• Grounded theory matches A because it develops theory from systematically analysed data.
• Narrative inquiry matches C because it examines stories and the temporal organisation of experience.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Consider the following statements about qualitative interviews:
1. Probing questions can clarify or deepen a participant's response.
2. Leading questions may bias the data.
3. Interviewer reflexivity is unnecessary because interviews are neutral instruments.
4. Rapport can help participants provide fuller accounts.
Which statements are correct?
1. Probing questions can clarify or deepen a participant's response.
2. Leading questions may bias the data.
3. Interviewer reflexivity is unnecessary because interviews are neutral instruments.
4. Rapport can help participants provide fuller accounts.
Which statements are correct?
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Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because probes invite clarification, examples or elaboration.
• Statement 2 is correct because leading wording can shape participants' answers.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because interviews are social interactions influenced by the interviewer and context.
• Statement 4 is correct; therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 4 only.
• Statement 2 is correct because leading wording can shape participants' answers.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because interviews are social interactions influenced by the interviewer and context.
• Statement 4 is correct; therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 4 only.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Assertion: Field notes should record both observed events and the researcher's reflections.
Reason: Separating descriptive notes from reflective comments can improve transparency during analysis.
Reason: Separating descriptive notes from reflective comments can improve transparency during analysis.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because field notes commonly contain descriptions as well as analytical or reflexive reflections.
• The Reason is correct because distinguishing these forms of notes helps readers and researchers identify observation and interpretation.
• This separation supports transparency and careful analysis.
• The Reason correctly explains an important way of documenting both kinds of field-note material.
• The Reason is correct because distinguishing these forms of notes helps readers and researchers identify observation and interpretation.
• This separation supports transparency and careful analysis.
• The Reason correctly explains an important way of documenting both kinds of field-note material.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
A researcher repeatedly compares new interview data with earlier codes and categories, revising them as analysis proceeds. This procedure is most closely associated with:
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Explanation:
• Constant comparative analysis involves comparing incidents, codes and categories throughout data collection and analysis.
• It is strongly associated with grounded theory.
• The process helps refine categories and identify their properties and relationships.
• Random assignment and experimental control belong to experimental designs rather than qualitative coding.
• It is strongly associated with grounded theory.
• The process helps refine categories and identify their properties and relationships.
• Random assignment and experimental control belong to experimental designs rather than qualitative coding.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which situation most clearly illustrates purposive sampling in qualitative research?
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Explanation:
• Purposive sampling selects participants because they possess experience or characteristics relevant to the research question.
• Teachers who implemented the policy can provide information-rich accounts.
• Systematic and random selection use probability procedures.
• First-response recruitment is closer to convenience or volunteer sampling.
• Teachers who implemented the policy can provide information-rich accounts.
• Systematic and random selection use probability procedures.
• First-response recruitment is closer to convenience or volunteer sampling.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Which is the most serious problem in claiming that three interviewees represent the views of all English teachers in a country?
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Explanation:
• A small qualitative sample may yield rich and valuable insights.
• However, it cannot automatically represent all English teachers in an entire country.
• The principal problem is overgeneralisation beyond the sample and context.
• Qualitative researchers should state the boundaries and transferability of their findings carefully.
• However, it cannot automatically represent all English teachers in an entire country.
• The principal problem is overgeneralisation beyond the sample and context.
• Qualitative researchers should state the boundaries and transferability of their findings carefully.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which practice best supports dependability in qualitative research?
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Explanation:
• Dependability concerns the consistency and traceability of the research process.
• An audit trail records decisions, revisions, coding procedures and methodological changes.
• Such documentation allows others to understand how the study developed.
• Unrecorded changes and unexplained inconsistency weaken dependability.
• An audit trail records decisions, revisions, coding procedures and methodological changes.
• Such documentation allows others to understand how the study developed.
• Unrecorded changes and unexplained inconsistency weaken dependability.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
A literary researcher analyses readers' personal accounts of encountering a traumatic novel, focusing on how they describe the experience. Which approach is most suitable?
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Explanation:
• Phenomenological inquiry is suitable because the study focuses on the lived experience of reading the novel.
• Personal accounts can reveal how participants perceive, feel and assign meaning to that experience.
• Experimental manipulation would address causal effects under controlled conditions.
• Frequency analysis alone would not adequately capture the experiential focus.
• Personal accounts can reveal how participants perceive, feel and assign meaning to that experience.
• Experimental manipulation would address causal effects under controlled conditions.
• Frequency analysis alone would not adequately capture the experiential focus.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
A researcher develops themes from focus-group transcripts but provides no quotations, coding explanation or negative cases. What is the strongest criticism?
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Explanation:
• Qualitative interpretations should show how themes were derived from the data.
• Quotations, coding procedures and attention to negative cases can demonstrate the evidential basis of claims.
• Focus groups can produce credible data when designed and analysed carefully.
• Numerical tables are not a substitute for transparent qualitative analysis.
• Quotations, coding procedures and attention to negative cases can demonstrate the evidential basis of claims.
• Focus groups can produce credible data when designed and analysed carefully.
• Numerical tables are not a substitute for transparent qualitative analysis.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. It investigates meanings, experiences and processes within their contexts సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. investigate a bounded case in depth within its real-life context సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Ethnography సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. the lived meaning of an experience as perceived by participants సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. develop an explanatory theory inductively from systematically analysed data సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. studying how people organise and interpret experience through stories సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. Semi-structured interview సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. generates data through interaction and discussion among participants సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. observes a setting while taking part to some degree in its activities సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. How did the course influence the way you approach academic reading? సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. identify, organise and interpret recurring patterns of meaning in data సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. assigning labels to meaningful segments of data for organisation and interpretation సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. A code labels a specific data segment, whereas a theme represents a broader pattern of meaning సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. critically examine how personal position, assumptions and relationships shape the research సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. Employing member checking, prolonged engagement or triangulation where appropriate సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: A. 1-D, 2-B, 3-A, 4-C సమాధానం: A.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: B. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: B.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: B. constant comparative analysis సమాధానం: B.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: C. Recruiting teachers with direct experience of implementing a new language policy సమాధానం: C.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: D. The claim exceeds the sample and the contextual basis of the evidence. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: A. Maintaining an audit trail of methodological decisions and analytical changes సమాధానం: A.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: B. Phenomenological inquiry సమాధానం: B.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: C. The interpretation lacks a transparent evidential and analytical basis. సమాధానం: C.