Evaluate Two Research Hypothesis

Hypothesis This study attempts to assess two research hypotheses. Our hypothesis answers the research question, what difference, if any, can be found between the two concentration when describing dissertation characteristics? Our first hypothesis (H1) states that clinical track dissertations are more likely to be experimental than administrative track dissertations. Our second hypothesis (H2) states administrative track dissertations are more likely to have advanced statistical analyses than clinical track dissertation. We believe that the students’ dissertation from the clinical track are more likely to have experimental characteristics due to having a readily availability of resources such as time, money, participants, networks, and contacts. On the other hand, we believe students’ dissertations from the administrative track will have more advanced statistical analyses simply because this track requires …show more content…
An excel spreadsheet was provided by the instructor to allow us to fill in information about the assigned dissertations; the following is information required to complete the excel spreadsheet: citation, advisor, advisor’s credentials, purpose, questions, hypothesis, independent and dependent variable(s), sample (n), sampling method, research type, statistical analysis, instrument utilized, reliability and validity, alternate explanation, limitation, future research and finally significance. Once this information was found from each dissertation, we then presented the spreadsheet to the instructor and classmates. We used SPSS Statistics 2012 to code in the collection of data we obtained from examining each dissertation. Pearson Chi-Square was used to compare the two groups of categorical variables, two tracks, for hypothesis one. We used an ANOVA to compare the variance of the two groups for hypothesis