Please complete the worksheet for assignment.
Utilizing the topic you have selected during the term, complete the following. Note how you might address the elements of the research questions and hypotheses for the proposed study about your selected topics.
What is your topic?
If the study is qualitative or mixed methods:
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Qualitative strategy of inquiry
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Central phenomenon
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Participants
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Research site
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Using the script from the textbook (p. 131), write a central question for your study:
What is your research topic?
If the study is quantitative or mixed methods:
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Independent variable(s)
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Dependent variable(s)
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Control variable(s)
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Write a descriptive research question for a dependent variable:
Using the scripts from the textbook (p. 133), write an inferential research question to compare groups or related variables:
What is your research topic? If the study is mixed methods:
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Mixed methods design
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Mixing procedures that you will use (e.g., use qualitative data to explain initial quantitative results or compare and contrast qualitative results with the quantitative results)
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Overall content goal of the study
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Based on your mixed methods design, will you list your quantitative or qualitative questions first? Explain.
Write a mixed methods research question that conveys the content goal of the study:
Write a mixed methods research question that conveys the procedures for mixing within the study.