Homework: Research Methodology
Part A
Build Your Own Questionnaire! You explored and identified factors that influence adjustment issues and their impact on academic performance of university students. In this homework, your task is to create a survey instrument (consisting of no less than 10 items) to assess various dimensions of student adjustment in the US.
o After constructing the instrument, write a paper of minimum 3 pages, and provide the background on the process of creating the instrument: Explain different dimensions and subscales of the instrument; discuss reliability and validity issues; and then explain the scoring process (including reverse coding if needed).
Part B (Quantitative)
Note: If you do not have access to SPSS, you can do this homework in Excel as instructed below.
Use the Excel file titled, General-Electric (GE) available on GAP under the "Supplemental Material" folder. This file contains GE's daily stock market data covering the period of 12/13/2010 to 12/11/2018. The file includes a total of 2,013 daily transaction records including date, opening price of the GE stock for the day, highest price, lowest price, closing price, closing price adjusted for dividends, and the number of stocks traded (volume).
Complete the following tasks on GE's stock and copy your results in a word document and submit your report.
Use the explore command in SPSS and explain whether the trading volume of the stock is normally distributed. Make sure to discuss, mean, median, standard deviation, skewness, kurtosis, and results from the test of normality.
(If you do not have access to SPSS, in Excel use the Data Analysis on the "DATA" tab, then select descriptive statistics).
Select a random sample of exactly 125 observations. Then run the descriptive command and calculate the mean and standard deviation of the sample. Calculate the 95% confidence interval for the mean and verify if the population mean is within the estimated confidence interval.
(If you do not have access to SPSS, in Excel use the Sampling on the Data Analysis tab to select your sample).
o Suppose you believe that the true average daily trade volume for General Electric stock is 49,829,719 shares and a standard deviation of 21,059,637 shares. Considering a 95% confidence level:
o What is the minimum required sample size if you would like your sampling error to be limited to 1,000,000 shares?
o What sample size would offer a sampling error of not more than 2,000,000 shares?
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.