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[Wendo]

This journal article review I'm writing is teh suck. My prof said that you could get help from anyone else, as long as they weren't in the class.

So I ask you, GAFers, would you consider any of these to be a hypothesis? They're seriously the closest I could find. No if/thens here.

“…that students do in fact think about the reasons for their academic successes and failures.”

* “For this reason, attribution style was investigated in relation to self-confidence in learning mathematics as a part of this study.”

* “Data on the extent to which students felt their mathematical ability was incremental would help to explain the amount of self-confidence that they possessed.”

* “Intuitively, it makes sense that students who see making mistakes as a necessary part of the solution of difficult mathematics problems will have greater motivation to attempt difficult mathematical problems than will those students who feel that solving mathematics problems is entirely a step-by-step process.”

* “If students do claim to reflect on their achievement in mathematics, an attributional explanation of motivation is much more plausible than if students fail to reflect on such achievement.”

* “…that students make attributions about the reasons for their successes and failures in mathematics.”


Thanks, ya'll.

 

[Willco]

SELL YOUR COLLEGE CREDITS ITS ALL OVER

 

[Wendo]

Seriously though, what is this crap? I thought that psychology folks were actually supposed to stick to guidelines and not just kind of glaze over their research hypothesis.

 

[distantmantra]

“Intuitively, it makes sense that students who see making mistakes as a necessary part of the solution of difficult mathematics problems will have greater motivation to attempt difficult mathematical problems than will those students who feel that solving mathematics problems is entirely a step-by-step process.”

It's long-winded, but this is the only one that is remotely similar to a hypothesis. You're focusing on the discussion sections, I'm guessing. If I am right about that, you're looking in the wrong place. Hypotheses come in the introduction and typically are very clear in spelling out what they're looking at and what they think will influence the behavior they're studying.

An example of a hypothesis would be:
Based on the past literature concerning dsfluency and stuttering, the current study set out to discern whether or not mild and severe stutterers differed in their silent and oral reading abilities in comparison to nonstuttering individuals.

Basically, "we think X is influenced by Y."

 

[Wendo]

It's long-winded, but this is the only one that is remotely similar to a hypothesis. You're focusing on the discussion sections, I'm guessing. If I am right about that, you're looking in the wrong place. Hypotheses come in the introduction and typically are very clear in spelling out what they're looking at and what they think will influence the behavior they're studying.

An example of a hypothesis would be:
Based on the past literature concerning dsfluency and stuttering, the current study set out to discern whether or not mild and severe stutterers differed in their silent and oral reading abilities in comparison to nonstuttering individuals.

Basically, "we think X is influenced by Y."

That's all from the introduction. There is absolutely no clear hypothesis other than the one you just mentioned. In theory, there are supposed to be more than one in this journal article. So I have no idea.

The only thing I can think of is if he's just using hypotheses from past research and using those...without saying anything about the present study.

 

[Wendo]

SELL YOUR COLLEGE CREDITS ITS ALL OVER

Goddamn it, you're right.

 

[Instigator]

I can only see the long one too. Hm.

 

[Wendo]

I just e-mailed the guy for the hell of it.

We'll have to see if he responds.

 

[distantmantra]

I just e-mailed the guy for the hell of it.

We'll have to see if he responds.

You emailed the author? More than likely they will help you out, people in academia are really excited when people take interest in their work.

 

[Wendo]

Yeah, this thing is due in two hours though. You have to love the take home final with a limited amount of time to work on it.

I am seriously going to fail this class. Whoooo.

 

[Instigator]

Don't forget to tell the rest of us when you find out.

 

[Wendo]

I just checked. Here we go:

It's been quite a while since I looked at that article and I don't have a
copy here at home but my recollection of that article is that the key
ideas/hypotheses were that the traditional affective/behavioral variables
used in the study are positively correlated with cognitive variables used
found in the psychological literature. It was a correlational study and I
don't recall any specific hypothesis testing.
Peter Kloosterman

Oh man. God do I hate that class.

And I'm serious about the failing part. That final was worth a shitload of points.