Research Design Questions

Research Design Questions.

Suppose you were going to create your own study to examine what course-delivery format (online, blended, or face-to-face) leads to the best performance in a psychological statistics class. In a paper identify the following for your study:

What is your research question?
What is your hypothesis (both null and alternate)?
Is this a qualitative or quantitative design (based on type of variable collected) and why?
Is this a descriptive, correlational or experimental design and why?
What would be an example of a variable for this study that could be measured on a nominal scale? Ordinal scale? Interval scale? Ratio scale?
Once you have collected your data, would you use inferential or descriptive statistics and why?
Create a sample frequency distribution for one of the variables. Choose either a simple or grouped frequency distribution and explain your choice.

By Monday, January 10, 2016, deliver your assignment to the M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox.

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points

Identified an appropriate research question

3

Correctly identified the null and alternative hypotheses.

6

Explained whether your study would be classified as a qualitative or quantitative design and why.

6

Explained whether your study would be classified as a descriptive, correlational or experimental design and why.

10

Provided an example of a variable for this study that could be measure on a nominal scale, ordinal scale, interval scale, and ratio scale.

13

Explained whether inferential or descriptive statistics would be used to analyze the data collected and why.

6

Created a sample frequency distribution for one of the variables. Selected either a simple or grouped frequency distribution and explained choice.

20

Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

16

Total:

80

Research Design Questions