Assignment task: Please answer the following questions and cite when necessary.
Q1. Explain the differences between a Dependent variable and an Independent variable. Give some examples of both.
Q2. What is a confounding variable?
Q3. Explain the differences between validity and reliability. What are researchers striving for? Give an example of a type of validity that is relevant in your research study.
Q4. Explain the difference between internal and external validity. Give an example of a type of threat to internal and external validity and give a method to protect against it.
Q5. Explain different types of sources of information. What are the advantages of a peer-reviewed, scholarly source? What are the disadvantages?
Q6. Explain sources of bias, how to identify bias, and how to protect against bias (both internal and external).
Q7. Put down an example of a potential research objective or hypothesis on a topic of interest to you, and with an appropriate title. (This could be from your group's project!)
Q8. Explain the difference between conceptual and operational definitions.
Q9. Explain an assumption, a limitation, and a delimitation. What is the main difference between limitation and delimitation? Give an example for your group's study (or a hypothetical study.)
Q10. What is the purpose of a literature review. List some do's and don'ts for a quality lit review.