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When I was in elementary school, my teachers used to tell us that a hypothesis was a question that we wanted to investigate in the experiment. In middle school, my science teacher told us that a hypothesis is an educated guess. In high school, I was told that a hypothesis is a prediction of what you think it’s going to happen in the experiment. Now as a college student, I taught that a hypothesis is a prediction of what I think it’s going to happen in an experiment or what do you think is the outcome if we test a particular thing. In the reading Keeley’s “What is a hypothesis” it talks about what is a hypothesis.

.:6. Design a (hypothetical) experiment that adheres to the Scientific Method. Be sure to include all the necessary requirements at each step and give examples at all of the steps. Start with an observation, whether it’s real or made up, state the null hypothesis, and design an experiment (including an experimental and control group, random sampling, sample size, and reproducibility) that will allow the student to reject or fail to reject the hypothesis, and state the conclusion (20 points.)

Hypothesis is typically used in quantitative research only. Moreover, when a question poses an inquiry on the relationship between two variables, a hypothesis is a statement declarative in nature of the relationship between different variables (Pajares 2007). A researcher chooses whether to use a question or a hypothesis depending on the purpose of the research, its objectives, the methodology for the research and the preference of the audience to receive the research. A researcher must be able to interpret the final outcome with reference to the research questions or the hypothesis used (Pajares 2007). A research requires a minimum of two hypotheses namely a null and an alternative hypothesis.

A hypothesis is tested through an experiment. To have effective testing, the experiment must have controlled variables, one control (without independent variable), and an experimental group.

To start out with a research where we use the experimental method, we first have to state what will be studied in our experiment. In this case, we will look at the problem of does sugar affect attention in small children. My hypothesis is that sugar will interfere with small children’s attention. The operational definition for affect attention will be measured by a learning lesson with the children. Where at the end of the lesson, children will complete a test from the subject that has been discussed during the lesson.

At one school, the average amount of time that tenth-graders spend watching television each week is 18.4 hours. The principal introduces a campaign to encourage the students to watch less television. One year later, the principal wants to perform a hypothesis test to determine whether the average amount of time spent watching television per week has decreased. Formulate the null and alternative hypotheses for the study described.

3.     What are the advantages and disadvantages of an experimental design in an educational study?

a. When you make a hypothesis, you have an idea that could potentially explain a phenomenon. A theory, on the other hand, is a hypothesis “that has withstood experimental tests” completed by numerous scientists independently. (Slater)

Hypothesis: It is a prediction of what you believe will happen in an experiment. Based on the variable that you are testing, write down a simple hypothesis of what you expect to see during your experiment.

Moreover, this social experiment took place outside of Convocation Hall in the middle of the field. It was around 1:00PM and a mass amount of students were leaving their classes. The tester saw this as the best opportunity to begin. The tester

A series of four questions were included in the experiment twice, once with a blind vote then once regularly in hopes of witnessing a change in opinion from the younger grade.The four grade, 11 students answered yes to each question to increase the pressure. The first time the experiment was conducted it was built up of four grade 11 and four grade 8 students, not one grade 8 student conformed. The next two times the same the number of grade 11 students remained at 4, but only had two grade 8 students to increase the pressure making them feel outnumbered, again not one student conformed. However, despite the negative outcome towards the hypothesis the experiment did not end here. From this changes were made towards the experiment, by bringing in four grade 7 students, two boys and two girls. This time, making the grade 11 students acted their part stronger and much more passionately and convincing, rather than just simply raising their hands they become verbal. Due to the blind vote, the students true thoughts and opinions were revealed here. However, during the open-eyed vote the grade 11’s began to verbally justify their opinions. Once the older grade began verbally explaining their choices, the grade 7s began hesitating, allowing one by one to conform for several questions. Not only did the older grade influence their

The study showed that some students expected to do well thus they proceeded to do well. Students that expected to do poorly did poorly. Certain students feel this way due to one

3. Hypothesis is required to explain or makes generalizations about a set of facts or principles. Proposition is required for a statement that affirms either true or false.

While conducting the research the researchers did two experiment. In both the experiment the researchers subjected undergraduates of two different university each time. The students received course credit for their time in both the experiments. The researchers wanted to see if they could implant false positive belief in the subjects regarding a specific food item (asparagus) as children. Asparagus was chosen as a food item because it is a healthy vegetable with rather sophisticated taste, and so many most children would not like it immediately. In experiment 1 the researchers wanted to see if they were able to plant false belief about asparagus in the subject and see if the false belief had effects on the subjects later such as increased likeliness towards asparagus, willingness to eat asparagus in a restaurant setting and also memory or belief of the people eating asparagus as children. After experiment 1 was conducted, researchers wanted to know if the pictures of the asparagus seemed more appetizing or

An “educated guess” is a poor definition for hypothesis because it is what you think of a certain topic based on little or no evidence. The real meaning of hypothesis is an explanation formed through observation not just an assumption.