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research aims
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broad statements (not questions) that include the entire intent of the work being done. Not necessarily well operationalized yet.
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research questions
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questions often split up into more general and more specific questions, often taking the form of a hierarchy of questions.
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research hypotheses
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statements about the relationships you expect to find between constructs. created based on your question.
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directional ("one-way" or "one-tailed") hypothesis
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when the direction of the expected relationship is predicted based on theory or prior work
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nondirectional ("two-way" or "two-tailed") hypothesis
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when the direction of the relationship is not predicted
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deductive research
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looks at theory and specifies a fact that the theory predicts, thus, there must be a hypothesis. theory>hypothesis>observation>confirmation
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inductive research
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looks at facts and creates theory, purely inductive research never has hypotheses. Observation>Pattern>Tentative Hypothesis>Theory
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causality
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must have 1) association 2) time order and 3) lack of spurious causality
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spurious causality
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when the relationships between two factors (A and B) is caused by a third factor (X)
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internal validity
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a study that measures the constructs and variables is says it's measuring (no threats to internal validity)
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Sampling terms
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Universal Population (Everyone)>Population of interest (who you want to generalize to)>Sampling frame (people eligible)>Study Sample
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random assignment
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randomly assigning your study samples (subjects) to a treatment and control group
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Threats to Internal Validity
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History
Maturation Testing Instrumentation Selection Mortality |
