My Doctorate Journey

The Educational Research professor says that there are three questions to ask about any study:

1. What are the variables?

2. What is the theory?

3. What is the hypothesis?

We have learned about the dependent variables (those that stay the same) and the independent variables (those that you are testing or can control).

And, then, there are observable variables – those that can be seen (e.g. how many times a student responds), and then there are the latent variables – something not observable (e.g. parent support or intelligence).

We are in the midst of developing questionnaires and learning how to manage the data.  Important stuff for important research studies!