SLWK 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Literature Review, Operational Definition, Negative Relationship
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Problem formulation: recognizing a difficulty, defining it, and specifying it. Literature review: getting the lay of the land in terms of what is currently known. Research questions: posing a question that can be answered by observable about the problem. evidence. Learn what is already known about your topic. Learn what challenges other researchers have faced. Use an * to search for any word beginning with those letters. Use or and and to search for multiple options at once. Use question marks to search for an entire phrase. Variable: a concept being investigated that can take on different (or varying) Independent variable: a variable that causes or explains the dependent variable. Dependent variable: a variable that is being explained or caused by an. Operational definition: definition of a variable that identifies the observable indicators that will be used to determine that variable"s attributes. Relationship: variables changing together in a consistent, predictable fashion. Positive relationship: both variables increase, or both variables decrease.
