Chapter four and specifically validity and reliability have been the most important to me this quarter. It is most important because the subject has given me the most amount of new material that will help me analyze data in the future.
2. What concept or item (if any) is confusing you the most?
Defining and differentiating descriptive and causal research, as well as unit of analysis was probably the most confusing task for me. In the assignment, I think I got the two concepts backwards. For unit of analysis, I wasn't sure if it referred to the unit used for measurement, something described by the variable, or both.
3. What do you