Question: Creating Research Questions
During this week you will work in the discussion to brainstorm a list of research questions you are interested in, which will help you work towards your written assignment for week 1 - "Research Questions". You are working towards creating a list of at least 5 unique research questions that encompass a variety of topics and types of variables. Think about exploring relationships between variables, making predictions for one variable using one or more other variables, and determining differences between groups across one or two variables. For weeks 2-5 you will pull a question from this list that might lend itself to a particular statistical analysis, thus saving valuable time in not needing to brainstorm research ideas. During those weeks you will take the research question and create a mini-research proposal that will help you consider the application of a specific statistical analysis to that question.
To earn full participation points, include in your initial posting at least 3 potential research questions by Day 3. Have fun with these questions and choose topics you are truly interested in, whether they are leadership, training, sports, social media, politics, movies, or food. This will make the research design process much more enjoyable. If you need help coming up with ideas, ask your instructor for examples. Also, feel free to post more than 3 research questions, as 5 is required for the written assignment and it would be useful to get feedback on as many questions as possible.
For each of the questions, provide the following:
List the research question
Identify the variables presented in the question
Provide an operational definition for each variable
Describe each variable's scale of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio) and characteristics (i.e., discrete vs. continuous, qualitative vs. categorical, etc.)