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Category - Research and Program Evaluation

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_______________________ research attempts to portray what presently exists in a group or population.

  1. Relational
  2. Causal
  3. Rational
  4. Descriptive
Explanation

Answer: D - Descriptive research attempts to portray what presently exists in a group or population. for example, an opinion survey to determine whether or not a particular service is needed in a community is a type of descriptive research. Descriptive research does not try to measure the effect of a variable, only to describe it.

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