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| an enigmatic, perplexing, or troubling condition that a researcher wants to address through disciplined inquiry |
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| articulates the nature, context, and significance of a problem to be studied; statements ypically include several components to develop an argument |
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| the researcher's summary of the overall goal |
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| the specific accomplishments the researcher hopes to achieve by conducting the study |
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| the specific queries researchers want to answer in addressing the research problem |
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| specific predictions about answers to research questions that are tested empirically |
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| specifies not only the existence but the expected direction of the relationship between the variables |
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| Nondirectional hypothesis |
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| does not stipulate the direction of the relationship |
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Research hypotheses
(substantive/scientific hypotheses) |
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| statements of expected relationships between variables |
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Null hypotheses
(statistical hypotheses) |
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| state that no relationship exists between the independent and dependent variables |
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