Define the study population and sample. What was the specific sample that was used? How were the sample elements selected?

Assignment Question

Chapter III: Theoretical Framework This section explains the theories of the research. Theories explain why the independent variable leads to the dependent variable in each hypothesis. Theories are also the framework that supports the ideology behind your questions or hypotheses. You may use other peoples’ theories from your literature review or develop your own. You should name your theory and explain the background, structure, and components of the theory or theories. Diagrams or figures may be helpful in explaining them. For example, a study on learning would include a theoretical discussion on cognitive development. Keep in mind that hypotheses that are supported by a growing body of data evolve into theories.

Chapter IV: Methodology The methodology section specifically outlines exactly how you will conduct your study. What are your plan, blueprint, instrument, proposed measurement, and sample? It will include most of the following sections depending on whether your study is qualitative or quantitative. A. Research design. A design is a complete strategy for your research agenda. This should include the components of the entire research process. It should discuss the data you collected and analyzed and how you completed it. You should specify whether your research was qualitative or quantitative. B. Measurement of variables. How were the concepts (variables) in the hypotheses measured? More specifically, what were the indicators of the variables? If the variables were measured with survey questions, your instrument, and the specific survey questions should be attached in your appendix. However, which instruments measure what variables should be explained here. C. Sampling. Define the study population and sample. What was the specific sample that was used? How were the sample elements selected? Did you use a random sample, simple random, stratified sampling, snowball, and so on. D. Research Methods. What was the method by which the information was collected? Was it a survey, field study, a meta-analysis of existing data (secondary data), focus group, content analysis, in-depth interview, etc? E. Plan of Analysis. Explain the following: a. Data acquisition and management procedures (coding, inputting, cleaning, etc.) b. Analysis Methods. What statistical methods? Why are they appropriate? c. Analysis expectations. What is expected from the analysis?

Chapter V: Findings In this section, which will be one of the final sections to be written, you will need to organize your analysis and results or findings in a way that the reader can follow. You may choose to organize your conclusions around your research questions and hypotheses. If you used statistics, you need not show formulas for standard procedures but do so for complicated statistics. Present your descriptive statistics first, organize large numbers in tables, and give each table a number. When you describe your statistics in the tables, point out only the highlights for the reader; do not go over each number. Spell out numbers that are less than ten (for example: Seven respondents ….. and spell out numbers that start a sentence. Qualitative results should be verbalized in an organized and clear manner.

Chapter VI: Discussion It is sometimes best to start this section with a summary: at least point out the questions you answered that were raised by your research questions. Make sure you refer to your research questions, hypotheses, and purpose, all of which you stated in your introduction. Talk about how the results are consistent with the results in the literature or how your findings differ. Consider interpreting your results and offering explanations for your findings. What do your findings mean? Talk about the strengths and limitations of your study, and if possible, tell the reader the implications of the results. It would be best if you closed this section by making specific recommendations for future research.