As both a consumer of research and a researcher, 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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