COMM 2002 Lecture Notes - Null Hypothesis

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2002
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Stages of quantitative research: research question (deductively, research design: survey, devise measures of concepts; state hypothesis, select site and sample (accurately represents what you"re trying to prove, collect data, code and analyse data, write up. Literature reviews: an account what has been published on a particular topic by scholars. It is part of the process in quantitative research. A critical analysis of what"s been done before (put a bunch of information together) Concepts: categories for the organisation of ideas and observations (abstract) Represent social phenomena we want to explain or to be explained. Operationalizing concepts: produced by the operational definitions of a concept. Common sense understandings of the form a concept might take. Concept may have different dimensions: singular indicator measures (one question) & multiple. Example what to measure in citizenship (multiple indicator measures: age, contribute (taxes, closeness to community, ability to speak language, birth, vote, historical knowledge. Hypothesis: conjectural statement of a relationship between 2 or more variables.