CMST 332 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Apa Style, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Correlation And Dependence
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Reviewing the literature review: questions to check: Have you added journal articles/book chapters that strengthen your args. Reviewing the research questions/hypothesis: 2 forms for presenting, display questions/hyp. as they emerge from lit. review. Broad narrow: present questions/hyp. together as summary to lit. review, separate questions/hyp. should be separated & identified as such. The method section: method section: describes how research study was executed. Descriptive info. for ea. variable in study. Do report age range/composition of sex/nationality/race/ethnicity: demographics reported even when they rep. independent variables in the study. Inc. info. about sampling tech. used to select partic. Report size of sample: present special conditions regarding informed consent/confidentiality/anonymity. Describing the research procedure: fully describe, explain: Describe basic procedures for ea. aspect of research design. Describing the variables: operationalization provided for ea. variable. Provide info. about steps researcher took to address issues of reliability/validity. Provide descrip. of how category scheme was devel. /pilot tested.