Reference no: EM132903609

My Hypothesis:

Students who agree that Clark provides clear expectations regarding the amount of time required outside of class to be successful are more likely to spend 11 or more hours per week preparing for class.

Assignment:

• Restate your hypothesis or research question within the context of the literature review.
• Describe your population and operationalize your research concepts/variables.
• Population - Clark College credit students in state-support classes (excludes ABE, corporate education, and continuing education)
• Operationalize research concepts - specifically, how are you going to measure your research concepts/variables? What is the research question (s)? What type of data is your variables (nominal, ordinal, interval/ratio)? If you are using more than one question to operationalize one research concept, then you will need to describe how you will create one research construct: average the responses by individual. 
• Identify whether your research is quantitative or qualitative research - quantitative here means that we will use parametric and non-parametric statistics and it should require a random/probability sample so that you can generalize your results. What is your sampling frame? 
• Describe your sampling methodology.
• What type of sampling methodology - stratified random sample based on three factors: reflective representation of the college students by academic transfer/professional technical intent, day/evening, and face-to-face/online. Used a cluster sampling technique to select classes to ensure adequate representation of student population by previous three factors. 
• Ensuring generalizability by selecting a random and large sample size (this answers the why you are sampling this way)
• How many classes were selected and rationale for selecting classes: administering the survey in class increases the response rate because they are captive respondents.
• What is the time frame you collected the data? Winter quarter 2018 during the third and fourth week of the quarter.
• Identify any limitations, if you can anticipate any. Limitations of research have to do with generalizability of the findings. For example, the sampling methods for this research are pretty rigorous, so I don't think generalizability to Clark College students is an issue, but would be an issue to generalize the research findings students in community colleges in the US. Or, you may not be able to generalize because you may have had limitations in operationalizing your variables--do you think you have the best data to measure your hypothesis/research question in relationship to what you may want to do with it?