You have just been introduced to three paradigms, interpretevism, positivism and critical realist. The first step is to understand what paradigms are and how they influence the research study... so in your assignment topic, if you're doing a quantitative study, then you will be using the positivist paradigm. If you are doing qualitative you will be using interpretevist paradigm. If you are using mixed methods (which we don't recommend) you would be using a critical realist paradigm.
For the summative assessment question you are given three articles to analyse and de-construct, reading them to understand the various methodological decisions that were made. Each article is a different paradigm (of the three given above). You will need to read the article and look for clues that indicate each paradigm. There is one of each paradigm from the three articles
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