RES 7302 Applied Research I

Description

Week 5 – Discussion Forum 2

Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.

The ability to develop a hypothesis from a research question is a skill. Quantitative research requires a hypothesis for investigation as it defines the relationship between the two variables being studied. For this discussion, you will find an article that describes a quantitative study and analyze its research questions and hypotheses.

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, Locate a quantitative study in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Links to an external site. or an article describing a quantitative study within the UAGC Library.

• • Download and save your article as a PDF file.
• Consider rereading Chapter 7 of the textbook.
• Leedy, P. D., & Ormrod, J. E. (2019). Practical research: Planning and design (12th ed.). Pearson.
  • The full-text version of this ebook is available through the RedShelf platform.

In your initial discussion forum post,

• Attach the study or article you found to your discussion post, and address the following:
  • Share an example of a quantitative research question and associated hypothesis.
  • Identify and label the dependent and independent variables for each hypothesis.
  • Provide examples of Type 1 and Type 2 errors for the null hypotheses.