- Selecting a research problem
- Interesting
Significant
Researchable
Feasible
- Statement of the problem
- Question form or statement form
Provides adequate focus and direction
Identifies key factors
Provides limits
Concise
- Operational definitions
- The procedure by which a variable is measured, e.g., scores on a certain test
- Constants
Variables
- Dependent
Independent
Organismic
Moderator
Interveneing
Control
- Scales of Measurement
- Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio,/dd>
- Hypotheses - a conjecture about the relationship between two or more variables
- Null hypothesis
Alternate hypothesis
Research hypothesis
Statistical hypothesis
Directional hypothesis
Nondirectional hypothesis
