Question

1. A researcher is interested in the relationship between students’ participation in tutorials and academic achievement. She states the following hypothesis in the description of her study: Students who participate in tutorials that emphasise critical thinking skills will score higher on measures od academic achievement and self-esteem than students who participate tutorials that emphasise rote memorisation.

Identify the variables in this study. What would be good names for the variables? Identify the independent variable(s) and dependent variable(s). Describe how each variable varies (i.e., whether the variable is categorical or continuous). Provide justification for why each variable varies the way you describe?

2. What are the main ingredients, trade-offs, and pitfalls when designing your empirical research?

3. When beginning a study, the researcher should construct a research question or problem that should be addressed in the study. Describe your understanding of a research question and establish the importance of this research question as a means of guiding the overall direction of the research paper.

4. Discuss the importance of the literature review section of any paper.

5. Describe the various genres of economic writing undertaken by economists.

6. Discuss the differences between qualitative and quantitative research design. Include mention of possible differences in purpose, methods, data sources, and data analysis.

7. Suppose a researcher wants to understand which attributes of entrepreneurs (e.g. personality, upbringing, resources, among other things) lead to long-term success. What methodological approach should they employ?

Answer 1

In this case, the researcher wants to study about the participation of students in academic achievement.

Hypothesis taken by the researcher is that students who participate in tutorials involved in critical thinking will score higher than students who focus on memorization.

The variables in this case study, would be the students, Parents, Educational background of parents, Standard of living of students and parents, Quality of the tutorials given, Education of teachers, Habits of students.

Dependent variables are those that depend on each other and increase and decrease on the same line.

In this case, the dependent variables would be the habits of students, standard of living of students and parents, Quality of tutorials given, etc

Independent Variables are those, that are not dependent on each other .

In this case, the independent variables would be Education level of teachers and parents, etc.