WEEK 2: Aims and hypotheses

Question 1

What needs to be established before conducting research?
What does new research have to be able to do?

Answer 1

Before conducting research, a sense of direction needs to be established so that the research has purpose and is able to build and expand upon what is already known about a certain topic.

Question 2

Descriptive or explanatory studies

Answer 2

Detail
Characteristics
Example: Case studies

Question 3

Evaluation or outcome studies
Definition?
What does this study not do?
What kind of objectives?

Answer 3

Test the effectiveness of an intervention
See if the intervention has had the intended effect
This type of study is not for theory development, it is for empirical objectives

Question 4

Meta analytic studies
Definition?
Is a meta analytic study the same as a review study? why?

Answer 4

Statistically summarising and analysing results from a range of studies from a certain topic

Meta analytic studies are not the same as review studies as it is done in a more systematic and structured way

Question 5

Conditions for writing a research aim
What does it need to include?
What dto things does it need to explain?

Answer 5

Cleary stated with rationale
Explain the relevance of research, and what is already known

Question 6

What is a hypothesis?

Answer 6

A hypothesis is a prediction
It serves as a basis for further investigation

Question 7

Hypo-deductive method

Answer 7

Deduces a test of a hypothesis