Week 1

Question 1

What are the top five characteristics of a good research question?

Answer 1

Testable
Interesting
Relevant
Feasible
Ethical

Question 2

Ethical

Answer 2

Protection of rights (both human and animal)

Management of risk

Question 3

Testable

Answer 3

can be answered with an experiment
Includes cause and effect relationships
Have a falsifiable hypothesis

Question 4

Relevant

Answer 4

Raised in literature

Fills gap in knowledge

Question 5

Interesting

Answer 5

Intrigues and motivates

Can’t be too broad or too narrow

Question 6

Feasible

Answer 6

Can it be done (or can time and money help)

Realistic timelines

Question 7

What is a Research Question?

Answer 7

A research question is the question that the research project sets out to answer.

Question 8

What is a Hypothesis?

Answer 8

A hypothesis is not a question, but rather it is a statement about the relationship between two or more variables.

Question 9

What are the components of a complete hypothesis?

Answer 9

• The variables
• The population
• The relationship between the variables

Question 10

what does a hypothesis do?

Answer 10

The hypothesis translates the research question into a prediction of expected outcomes.

Question 11

What are the key steps in developing a hypothesis from a research question?

Answer 11

Step 1: Translate concepts into measurable variables
Step 2: Determine your population
Step 3: Predict a relationship (a clear cause and effect)