Key Terms
Predicted answers to research questions
What is hypotheses?
Number of high school drop outs in urban community
What is a quantitative approach?
The inductive-deductive hierarchy
What is...
1. Research area
2. Research topic
3. General research question(s)
4. Specific research question(s)
5. Data collection questions(?)
Two parts:
This kind of question is a question the research itself tries to answer
This kind of question collects data to help answer the research question
What is...
Research question
Data collection question
Two parts:
General to specific level
Specific to general level
What is deduction?
What is induction?
Reasons why youth drop out of high school
What is a qualitative approach?
How to determine if it is appropriate to have a hypothesis
What is...
1. What answers do we expect/ predict to this question?
2. Why do we predict this and not something else?
There should be about __ to__ research questions that can subdivide into __ to ___ specific questions
What is 3 to 4, what is 2 to 3?
Research which aims to test hypotheses, derived from an explanatory theory
What is Hypothesis-testing research?
What is the relationship between poverty and juvenile delinquency
What is a general research question?
The simple model of the research process (previously shown in chapter 1) stress the following:
What is...
1. The framing the research in terms of research questions
2. Determining what data are necessary to answer questions
3. Design research to collect and analyze data
4. Uses data to answer the question
How to get a research question
What is...
1. identify area and topic and develop questions within that area
2. Work from general to specific questions
OR
3. Work from specific to general questions
more general= more abstract
more specific= more concrete
What is Levels of abstraction?
What is the relationship between growing up in an African American single parent household and juvenile delinquency?
What is a specific research question?
Research Questions do 5 main things
What is
1. Organizing the project
2. Delimit the project, exposing its boundaries
3. Keep researcher focused during the project
4. Provide a framework for writing up the project
5. Point to the data that will be needed
This part of the research model is apart of the empirical stage
Design, data collection, data analysis & test hypotheses?
Research area; research topic; general research questions: specific research questions; data collection questions
What is Hierarchy of concepts?
These questions guide the research planning process
What(questions is the research trying to answer? What is the research trying to find out?)
How(will the research answer these questions?)
Why( are these questions worth answering? Why is the research worth doing?)
The question development stage
What is...
1. Generating possibilities
2. Mixture of question subdivision
3. Ordering questions to develop focus
4. Bring project down to size
This part of the research model is apart of the pre-empirical stage
What is...
Research area, topic (literature and context), questions & Hypotheses (theory)