Drawing Conclusions
This chapter deals with the most important aspect of the whole research process. This aspect is drawing conclusions from your data. After going through all the steps of thinking through your hypotheses, designing the study, gathering and analyzing the data, you now can see if any new knowledge was gained.If you recall from the first chapter, step seven of the research process is: Conclusions drawn regarding the hypotheses. The process of drawing conclusions has three steps and is best approached by laying out all your information in front of you:
First, gather all your information in one place. Do the following:
Second, decide if the data are of acceptable quality. If the data were not gathered under conditions of good reliability and validity (test, internal, and external) you should not continue further. For example, if the measure of the dependent variable is not reliable then the statistical analysis results are based on erroneous information and you cannot decide if the hypothesis is true or false!
Third, if the reliability and validity are acceptable, you can go on to decide about each hypothesis. Based on the statistical test results decide if each hypothesis is supported or denied (true or false). Below is an example of how to interpret statistical test information and then apply it to a hypothesis.
First, gather all your information in one place. Do the following:
Second, decide if the data are of acceptable quality. If the data were not gathered under conditions of good reliability and validity (test, internal, and external) you should not continue further. For example, if the measure of the dependent variable is not reliable then the statistical analysis results are based on erroneous information and you cannot decide if the hypothesis is true or false!
Third, if the reliability and validity are acceptable, you can go on to decide about each hypothesis. Based on the statistical test results decide if each hypothesis is supported or denied (true or false). Below is an example of how to interpret statistical test information and then apply it to a hypothesis.
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