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    3. Is the Problem Significant?

    4. Is the Problem Feasible for the Particular Researcher?

    In order to be feasible, a problem should agree with the following:


    a) Research competencies of the Researcher
    b) Interest and enthusiasm of the Researcher
    c) Financial consideration in the Project
    d) Time requirement for the Project
    e) Administrative considerations in the Project.

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    5
    Variables and Their Types
    Variable is a concept which can take on different quantitative values.
    For example; height, weight, income, age etc. The main focus of the
    scientific study is to analyse the functional relationship of the variables.
    A variable is a quantity which can vary from one individual to another.
    The quantity which can vary from person to person.
    “Variable is a property that taken on different value”,
    Kerlinger
    It is any feature or aspect of an event, function or process that, by its
    presence and nature, affects some other event or process, which is
    being studied.
    (i) Continuous Variable:
    It is that which can assume any numerical value within a specific range.
    (ii) Discrete Variable:
    A variable for which the individual values fall on the scale only with
    distinct gaps is called a discrete variable.
    (iii) Dependent Variable or Criterion variable:
    If one variable depends or is a consequence of other, it is termed as
    dependent variable. Criterion variable is the basis on which the
    effectiveness of the experimental variable is studied.
    (iv) Independent Variable or Experimental Variable:
    The variable that is antecedent to the dependent variable is termed as
    an independent variable. The variable whose effect is going to be known
    is known as experimental variable.

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    (v) Controlled Variable:
    The effectiveness of an experimental variable is examined by comparing
    with other variable, known as controlled variable.
    (vi) Confounding Variable:
    Those aspects of study or sample, that might influence the dependent
    variable (outcome measures) ,and whose effect may be confused with
    the effects of the independent variable. They are of two types;
    Intervening and extraneous variable.
    (vii) Intervening Variable:
    There are a number of abstract variables in educational/social
    experiments, which intervene the effect of experimental or criterion
    variable. For controlling intervening variable appropriate research
    design should be used. Intervening variables are hard if not impossible,
    to observe because they usually have to do with an individual’s feelings
    like boredom, stress, fatigue, excitement etc. Extraneous variable on the
    other hand, are more readily observed or measured and thus are more
    easily controlled.
    (viii) Extraneous Variable:
    Independent variables that are not related to the purpose of the study,
    but may affect the dependent variable are termed as extraneous
    variables. Suppose the researcher wants to test the hypothesis that
    there is a relationship between children’s gain in social studies
    achievement and their self-concept. Here self-concept is independent
    variable and achievement in social study is dependent variable.
    Intelligence may as well affect the social studies achievement; but since
    it is not related to the purpose of the study undertaken by the
    researcher, it will be termed as extraneous variable. Whatever effect is
    noticed on dependent variable as a result of extraneous variable(s) is
    technically described as an ‘experimental error.’
    A study must always be so designed that the effect upon the
    dependent variable is attributed entirely to the independent variables
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