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Give an example of a well-stated research question that involves estimating a characteristic about the population of part-time students at your college.

Improve the following research question so that it is a well stated research question. Research Question: Do students work a lot of hours?

Question 1
Here are two examples of a research question that involves estimating a characteristic about a population of part-time students at Cuyamaca College.

What is the average amount of debt owed by a part-time students at Cuyamaca College?
Do the majority of part-time students at Cuyamaca College work more than 20 hours per week?

Here are two examples of a research question that involves estimating a characteristic about a population of part-time students at Cuyamaca College.

What is the average amount of debt owed by a part-time students at Cuyamaca College?
Do the majority of part-time students at Cuyamaca College work more than 20 hours per week?

Of course there are many possible answers. However, your research question should include the following information.

The population (part-time students at Cuyamaca College)
The information we will collect from each individual student in the sample. This is the variable. In the first example above, the variable is amount of debt, so we would collect information about the amount of debt owed by each student. In the second example, the variable is whether the student receives financial aid.
A numerical characteristic about the population related to this variable (the average amount of debt per student or the proportion of students receiving financial aid).

Question 2
In this question we can see the information we will collect from each individual in the sample: the number of work hours. But the question is vague. We can improve the question with:

a more specific description of the student population,
a more specific definition of work hours (such as “per week”), and
a numerical characteristic like “average.”

Here is one example of an improved research question: What is the average number of hours that students at Cuyamaca College work each week?