Research Question

Resources

• Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.

For this discussion, you will state a research question on the difference in two population means, a null hypothesis, and an alternative hypothesis on a research topic in your field.

• Address the question 1 (p. 144) in your Quantitative Research Methods for Professionals in Education and Other Fields text:
  • Which would you choose, if you had to choose between using estimation with confidence intervals and measures of statistical significance? Why?
  • How does this relate to your ability to make generalizations to the population from which you have taken a random sample?
  • Which would you use in a Capella dissertation? Why?
• Support your responses.

Reference

Capella University (Ed.). (2007). Quantitative research methods for professionals in education and other fields. Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing.