You are working for a community development organization in a city with high rates of unemployment, poverty, high school attrition, and juvenile delinquency. Your organization wants to begin an afternoon computer training program for young people. Explain how descriptive, exploratory, explanatory, and evaluation research can all be used to help start and later maintain this program.
What will be an ideal response?
Descriptive research--understand and describe the target population; exploratory research--how people get along in a particular setting, what meanings do they give to their actions, and what issues do they face; explanatory research--identify cause and effects of a social phenomenon and then predict how one phenomenon may change in response to another; evaluation research--determine how the program set in place is affecting the target population.
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