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Research Title
A research paper title summarizes the aim and purpose of your research
study. A good title contains the fewest possible words that adequately describe the
contents and/or purpose of your research paper. The title is without doubt the part of
a paper that is read the most, and it is usually read first. The title should indicate the
focus of the paper, and should contain enough relevant “keywords” to enable readers
to find this paper when searching a relevant database.
1. Course/Specialization
2. Observed/Perceived Problem
3. Research Gap
4. Ways of Getting or Processing Data
5. Respondents
6. Setting
7. Contributions
1. Engaging
2. Succinct
3. With Essential Words Only (around 5-15 words)
4. Grammatically Correct
5. Seldom Uses Abbreviations
The research title plays a crucial role in the research process, and its
importance can be summarized as follows:
The direction or the target of the study. Refers to what you want to really do,
what you seek to investigate, examine, describe , explain, or explore about. Some of
the terms you may use to show the result in your title are the following:
Variable
A variable is an object, event, idea, feeling, time period, or any other type of
category you are trying to measure.
Quantitative Variables
For quantitative research, we have to include these two variables in the title
which showcase a cause and effect relationship or an experimental approach, these
variables are the independent variable and dependent variable.
INDEPENDENT VARIABLE
Independent variable usually tells us the topic, the focus, and issue or
problem at hand. It is the variable you manipulate or vary in an experimental study to
explore its effects. It’s called “independent” because it’s not influenced by any other
variables in the study.
These terms are especially used in statistics, where you estimate the extent to which
an independent variable change can explain or predict changes in the dependent
variable.
You can apply just two levels in order to find out if an independent variable
has an effect at all.
You can also apply multiple levels to find out how the independent variable
affects the dependent variable.
Subject variables are characteristics that vary across participants, and they
can’t be manipulated by researchers. For example, gender identity, ethnicity,
race, income, and education are all important subject variables that social
researchers treat as independent variables.
It’s not possible to randomly assign these to participants, since these are
characteristics of already existing groups. Instead, you can create a research
design where you compare the outcomes of groups of participants with
characteristics. This is a quasi-experimental design because there’s no
random assignment. Note that any research methods that use non-random
assignment are at risk for research biases like selection bias and sampling
bias.
We would then have the view of the problem to investigate when we combine
the goal and the independent variable.
DEPENDENT VARIABLE
The dependent variable is what you record after you’ve manipulated the independent
variable. You use this measurement data to check whether and to what extent your
independent variable influences the dependent variable by conducting statistical
analyses.
Based on your findings, you can estimate the degree to which your independent
variable variation drives changes in your dependent variable. You can also predict
how much your dependent variable will change as a result of variation in the
independent variable.
Qualitative Variable
CATEGORICAL VARIABLE
Categorical variables represent groupings of some kind. They are sometimes
recorded as numbers, but the numbers represent categories rather than actual
amounts of things.
Binary
A binary variable is a variable that has two possible outcomes. For example,
sex (male/female) or having a tattoo (yes/no).
Nominal
Ordinal
An ordinal variable is a categorical variable for which the possible values are
ordered. Ordinal variables can be considered “in between” categorical and
quantitative variables. Ex. Educational level.
3. Research Locale
QUANTI = GOAL+IV+DV+LOCALE
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