Question

Let's see if we can apply some of this research stuff to our lives. For this post, check your original Introduction post, take one piece of personal information (e.g., favorite show, hobbies, current/future employment), and create a scientific procedure by following the criteria/questions below:

1. What is your research question? For example, How does exercising improve happiness, or how does exercising improves work efficiency. Pick something related to the examples.

2. Write your hypothesis. Here is where you are taking your "educated guess" at the relationship between the variables you are interested in studying (e.g., profession + happiness).

3. Describe your dependent variable.

4. Describe your independent variable.

5. How will you measure your variables?

6. What would be any foreseeable limitations in your approach to study these variables?

7. Just based on a very unscientific approach, and out of my own curiosity, what would you think you would find if this study really did occur?

Answer 1

Lets us create a frame work of research process on one of our hobby Studying. Our research framework will go like this :-

Statement of the Problem or Research question:- To study the Relationship between Study Habits and Academic Achievement of Secondary school students.

Hypotheses:- we will be creating Null hypothesis that is “There is no significant relationship between study habits and academic achievement of secondary students”

Variables:- A variable is any condition that can vary or change in quantity or quality. The independent variable, or treatment, is under the control of and administered by the experimenter. The behavior that is potentially affected by the treatment and that we measure is called the dependent variable. The dependent variable is always a measure of behavior that we record after first manipulating the independent variable. It is referred to as dependent because changes in it depend on the effects of the independent variable.

Thus our variables would be like this

Independent variable would be: - study habits

Dependent Variable would be: - Academic achievement of secondary students

METHODOLOGY: - we will be conducting survey method to find out the relationship between study habits and academic achievement of secondary students. The population for the present study consisted of secondary students studying in USA of particular educational district using the simple random sampling technique. The sample would consist of 300 students from 13 higher secondary schools. We will be using Study Habits Inventory by V.G. Anantha (2004). We will be collecting the students’ marks in quarterly examinations in all the subjects for the academic achievement. For analyzing and interpreting the data we will be using percentile analysis, standard deviation (SD), ‘t’ test, ANOVA and Pearson’s product moment correlation as the statistical techniques.

Limitations

The potential limitations of this study would be :

The subjects in this study were secondary students from a Particular USA District The results of this particular study might not be generalized to other populations from other education institutions of different states.

Based on a very unscientific approach, and out of my own curiosity, I would find that there is significant relationship between study habits and academic achievement in secondary school students.