[HECOL473] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (32 pages long!)

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Human Ecology
• Course: HECOL473
• Professor: Rachel Mc Queen

Document Summary

Key components of research: asking the question, identifying the problem, purpose and hypothesis, surveying the literature, conducting the study, recording the ndings, interpreting the data, adding something to the eld. Title: usually are brief and refer to the population of interest and to the variables studied. Inform readers on what is known and not know about the problem. Establish the need for the current research study. Concludes with a statement of the speci c research hypotheses or purposes. In a longer report and intro may be separate which states the rationale for the study and leads to hypotheses and/or purpose followed by the literature review. Instrumentation describes the measures such as tests and perception scales. Procedure which describes the experiment and other things not included. In reports on qualitative research it is usually brief and often represented with. Statistical analysis would be included here (often in tables) Only results should be in the results section.