Sunday, March 30, 2014

Proposal Part 4: Research Objectives/Hypotheses Related to Research Problems

I really love YouTube.  

A simple four-minute video explains how to write research questions and hypotheses from "MsLemmonsClass."  I assume this was written for high school kids (though I never saw anything like this in high school).

I like it.  This really makes the task look a bit less daunting.

So basically, you take each individual research problem and find the independent and dependent variables.

Hypothesis:
The hypothesis is my prediction, my claim.  It is what I think is going to happen based upon my prior information and my prior observations.

Written Format:  IF-THEN-BECAUSE

IF:  If the IV does something (increases, decreases), 
THEN:  then DV is going to (increase, decrease)
BECAUSE:  because ___________.  Why do I think this?  What led me to this claim or hypothesis?

This made writing the hypotheses fairly easy to do.  Got them done in a couple hours.





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