ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on designing a quantitative research question. In quantitative research, designs focus on collecting data that will be represented numerically and collected through surveys, polls, or by using existing datasets. Quantitative research questions include information on the target population, the attributes or variables to be studied and what the researcher wants to know about them, and the type of analysis that will be used by the researcher to answer the question. Clarifying concepts is important in all types of studies, but operationalization is especially important to quantitative research because the quality of its results will be judged in part on how well concepts were translated into the variables that were measured. The chapter discusses the role of variables and their operationalization, leading up to the creation of hypotheses, the typical form into which research questions are translated in most quantitative designs.
