Given the reading and assignments in the course, identify and briefly discuss two important concepts that you will consider when you evaluate research in Education or in the Health Sciences.
- Recognize three types of research questions: (a) descriptive, (b) relational, and (c) causal (Module 1).
- Differentiate between nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio types of data (Module 2).
- Identify the independent and dependent variables in a research study (Module 2).
- Formulate a null and alternative research hypothesis in accordance with a corresponding research question (Module 3).
- Explain the process of hypotheses testing (Module 3).
- Describe three types of research designs (non-experimental, quasi-experimental, true experimental) (Module 4).
- Describe research reliability and different types of research validity (construct, conclusion, internal, and external) (Module 5).
- Reflect upon and integrate course concepts (Module 6).
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