Early Career Exposure Lab Activity

Lab Activity 2: Help Amy!

Amy is a struggling graduate student who cannot decide on a research question for her dissertation. She is interested in childhood factors related to developmental outcomes in adulthood. More specifically, her interests lie in how involvement in school activities relates to early career success.Your task for this assignment is to use the concepts to help Amy develop her research interests into a concrete research question and testable hypothesis.

1. Research Question

2. Hypothesis and Variables

Hypothesis:

Variables:IV/Predictor:

DV/Outcome:

3. What evidence is needed to falsify the hypothesis?

4. There are multiple ways to operationally define “involvement in school activities” and “early career success”. Provide a few ways to measure each of the two concepts.