The text describes a hypothesis-testing study examining the relationship between utilization of ancillary support services and academic persistence among nontraditional women college students. The study posits three hypotheses:Hypothesis 1 (nondirectional): There is no relationship between utilization of ancillary support services and academic persistence for nontraditional women college students.Hypotheses 2 and 3 (directional): Religious women with salient gender identity are less socio-politically active than secular women with salient gender identities, and the relationships among gender identity, religiosity, and social actions are weaker among Arab women than among Jewish women.The study also provides examples of how to write questions or hypotheses based on a theoretical model, using both descriptive and inferential questions to examine the relationship between independent and dependent variables, as well as control variables.