What does this mean State Research Hypothesis (one sentence of predicted relationship between IV and DV)?
The Research Question Having identified the research problem or area that you plan to investigate, the next step is to list Research Questions. The research question is an “educated guess” or a hunch about possible relationships, differences or causes; sometimes called hypotheses. Many a time we hear people say; “The high incidence of truancy is because schooling is becoming uninteresting”. This is a hypothesis that “truancy” is related to “uninteresting schooling”, which obviously has to be proven empirically. For example, your car will not start. You put forward the hypothesis that “the car that does not start because there is no petrol”. You check the gauge and either reject or accept the hypothesis. If you find there is petrol, you reject the hypothesis. Next, you hypothesise that “the car did not start because the spark plugs are dirty”. You check the spark plugs to determine if they are dirty and accept or reject the hypothesis accordingly. Similarly, in educational research you
