support@essaywritingexpert.orgpart 1) Chap 5: Secondary Data Analysis
Read Chap 5 and answer the following questions:
(w5r1) What is secondary data?
(w5r2) What does a researcher do in secondary data analysis?
(w5r3) What is the General Social Survey (GSS)?
(w5r4) In searching for a data set to use in your secondary data analysis, what do you check about the data? In other words, what kind of things do you examine about the data to see if the data can be used for your research?
part 2) Chap 4: Survey
Read the following sections in Chapter 4, Survey: “Methodology”, “Theory”, “Research Questions”, “Literature Review”, and “Conceptualizing and Operationalizing” (excluding the section on “Levels of Measurement”) and the supplemental reading listed below, and answer the following questions:
(w5r5) What is a hypothesis?
(w5r6) What is an explanatory research question?
(w5r7) What is a variable?
(w5r8) What is an independent variable?
(w5r9) What is a dependent variable?
(w5r10) What do you do to conceptualize a concept?
(w5r11) What do you do to operationalize a variable?
Given the research question listed below, find out (w5r12-w5r16):
Does Internet use affect the amount of face-to-face interaction? In other words, do people who use the Internet interact face to face with other people more frequently or less frequently in comparison with those who do not use the Internet?
(w5r12) What is/are the variable(s) involved in the research question?
(w5r13) What is the most likely unit of analysis given the research question?
(w5r14) Is there any independent variable? If so, what is it? If not, write “None” as your answer.
(w5r15) Is there any dependent variable? If so, what is it? If not, write “None” as your answer.
(w5r16) Given this research question, list one extraneous variables.
Given the research question listed below, find out (w5r17-w5r21)
Do school uniforms decrease bullying at school?
(w5r17) What is/are the variable(s) involved in the research question?
(w5r18) What is the unit of analysis given the research question?
(w5r19) Is there any independent variable? If so, what is it? If not, write “None” as your answer.
(w5r20) Is there any dependent variable? If so, what is it? If not, write “None” as your answer.
(w5r21) Given this research question, list one extraneous variable.