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ASSESSMENT:

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Thr
eest
agesofTheor
yDev
elopment
:
1.Speculat
ive-Formespeculativecomingfr
om t
hewor dspeculati
onorspecul
atewhich
meanshav i
nganassumpt ion.Formingofatheor
ywi t
houtfir
m evi
dence.Noactual
evi
denceisbei ngpresent
ed,onlyanattemptt
oexplain.Ital
someansguessingwhat
happenedorwhati shappeningbasedonwhatthepersonsees,andnotbasedonfacts
orinv
esti
gation,j
ustmerecuriosi
ty.

2.Descript
ive-Itis opposi
teto speculati
ve,because descri
pti
ve means gat
her
ing of
fact
ualdat aandinformat
iononwhati sactual
lyhappening.Aninfor
mati
onthatgiv
es
peopleknowledgeaboutacert
aintopic.Iti
selabor
ate,cr
it
icalandexpl
anat
ory.

3.Construct
ive-I
tmeanst
odev
elopori
mpr
oveanol
dtheor
ythatwi
l
lbeusedf
orot
her
resear
ch.