Activity 22.4:

True or False?

Write "T" in the space provided in front of each of the statements listed below that are true. Write "F" in front of each statement that is false.

1. A major advantage of historical research is that it permits the study of certain kinds of topics and questions that can be studied in no other way.
2. Internal criticism in historical research refers to the genuineness of the documents that the researcher uses.
3. A primary source is a document prepared by an individual who was not a direct witness to an event.
4. A disadvantage of historical research is that the measures used to control for internal validity in other kinds of research are not available in a historical study.
5. It would be difficult to draw a representative sample of data when doing a historical study.
6. Many historical studies are done in libraries.
7. It would be unusual to find a hypothesis in a historical study.
8. There is no manipulation of variables in historical research.
9. "How were young women educated in nineteenth-century convent schools?" would be an example of a question investigated through historical research.
10. "When was that document written?" is one example of a question that involved external criticism.
11. The reading and summarization of historical data is rarely a neat, orderly sequence of steps to be followed.