To complete this assignment, you will need to have read and reviewed the lectures and book for chapters 1, 3, 4, and 10. You will be required to apply the information related to the RESEARCH DESIGN, SAMPLING, and LEVEL OF MEASUREMENT for a study listed below. After carefully reviewing, you will direct your attention to the article below that corresponds to your last name. This means, if your last name is Brown, then you must complete the questions below for the first article. If your last name is Williams, then you would of course use the third article to answer the questions below. After completing the questions in a MS Word document using size 12 Times New Roman font, upload your assignment to the submission box. Similar to the last assignment, most of the information needed to answer the questions can be found in the METHODS and/or VARIABLE MEASURES section of the article. Yes, it does require that you read/skim through the article to locate the information on the measurement of the variables and other important information. More importantly, make certain to read the information and try to summarize or synthesize for yourself. Do not just copy and paste full paragraph descriptions for your answers to the questions. Most of these questions require you to respond using your own words.After reading, answer the following:1. What is the title of your article?2. What type of research design was used for your study? How do you know? Was it mentioned in the article or were specific characteristics or attributes described that led you to believe that is the type of design used for that study. Describe the design in your paper. Within your discussion of the research design, describe the sample of your study. More specifically, what type of sampling procedure was used to gather/collect your sample and what does the final sample of your study look like (final number and other demographics)?3. What is/are the main independent variable(s)? Dependent variable(s)?4. What is the main hypothesis or prediction for your particular study? By this I mean, what do the authors believe is the relationship between those variables, or how do the authors believe the independent variables impact the dependent variable(s). 5. List and describe how the main independent and dependent variables are operationalized/measured. Describe the measurements for at least four (4) of the major variables.6. Then, next to each variables description, tell which level the variable is being measured as (e.g. nominal, ordinal, etc.). You determine the level of measurement by reading through the description of the variable and comparing it to the descriptions of the different levels (nominal – ratio). 7. After listing the level of measurement, tell how you know that variable is being measured at that level. What attributes of that variable deem it applicable to that particular level of measurement? Do so for all four variables. 8. Lastly, of the four variables described, take at least two of those variables and create another version of that variable at a different level of measurement. By this I mean, describe another way that variable can be operationalized, but at a different level than originally created. If the variable was originally measured by the researchers on the ordinal level, you then describe what it would look like at the nominal or ordinal level, for example.
