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After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Describe quantitative research and its assumptions.
- Identify examples of quantitative research.
- Explain analytic deduction.
- Explain the five-component model for quantitative research.
- Explain the role of hypotheses in quantitative research.
- Assess the effectiveness of hypotheses in quantitative research.
- Explain why research questions are used in quantitative research.
- Distinguish among concepts, conceptual schemes, constructs, variables, and operationalizations.
- Identify independent and dependent variables in hypotheses.
- Explain the relationship between independent and dependent variables in hypotheses.
- Explain the advantages and disadvantages of quantitative research.
- Describe issues of reliability and validity that must be addressed in quantitative research.
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