Part 2

2nd Quarter

Part 2

13問 • 1年前2nd Quarter

Al-Walli Bayotlang

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問題一覧

Consider the amount of time, energy, money, respondents, and even your current situation as a student-researcher.

Feasible

The clarity of how the questions stated lead to agreement of meaning of the readers of your study. Since your research questions are also considered as the main focus in the gathering and analyzing the data, it is therefore very important that these are stated clearly.

Clear

Ask if your research questions are relevant or important to ask. Will answering these questions provide an additional contribution to address the given research problem? In other words, are the research questions really worth investigating? At this point, you do not just consider the time and money that you will spend, but more importantly, the value of what you are trying to investigate.

Significant

Always consider the welfare of people, animals or who so ever involve in your study. Look into ways of answering the research questions without inflicting physical and psychological harm to persons involved.

Ethical

the “presumed cause” of the research problem. It is the reason for any “change” or difference in a dependent variable. It can be purposely manipulated by the researcher, depending on the focus of the study. It maybe can cause, influence, or affect the result or outcome of the study. It is also called as the experimental, treatment, antecedent, or predictor variable. Moreover, it refers to the variable that is stable and unaffected by the other variables you are trying to measure.

Independent variable

is the “presumed effect” of the research problem. It is usually the problem itself or the element that is being questioned. This variable is altered as a result of experimental manipulation of the independent variable or variables. It is also called as the criterion, effect, response, or outcome variable which captures the interest of the researcher and requires analysis, interpretation, and implication of the findings of the study. The variable that depends on other factors that are measured and are affected or influenced by the independent variable.

Dependent variable

s an independent variable which influences the direction and the strength of the connection between independent and dependent variables. The independent variable interacts with the moderator variable, which makes the relationship of the independent and dependent variable stronger or weaker. It alters the effect that an independent variable has on a dependent variable base on its value. The moderator thus influences the effective component of the cause-effect relationship between the two variables. This is also called as the interaction effect.

Moderating variable

is an element that exists between the independent to the dependent variable.

Mediating variable

is a special type of independent variable that can influence the dependent variable. It takes an active role in quantitative studies. Statistical procedures are used to control this variable. It is useful to integrate the control variables into your research study, but it is not the main focus.

Control variable

is usually the independent variable of the study.

Input

is the intervention or solution consist of the instruments and analyses used to acquire the result.

Process

is the findings or outcome of the interventions being made to solve the identified problem.

Output

is an integral part of the cause-effect relationship and helps us to understand the effects of the independent variable on the dependent variable. It is a variable that describes the effect and influence of the relationship between the variables and what is controlling that relationship. This is also called as correlated or mediator variables