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I. Describe and discuss the research design you wish to use for your study.
The research design is one of the most important aspects of your research proposal. It should consist of several parts, including:
a. Aims & Hypotheses: What is the research question and related hypothesis or guiding questions?
b. Conceptualization, and operationalization, and measurement of your variables. What are the definitions you are using for each variable in your research project (remember to include not only the variables from your research question, but also all other variables that you need to control for)? How do you plan to operationalize these variables? For each variable, be sure to include an explanation, and/or a sample interview question, scale item, or coding category, and demonstrate how they measure your concepts. What issues of validity and reliability do you need to consider for your research?
c. Sample
Identify your target population (i.e. the group to whom the study’s results are expected to apply) and explain in detail how you will draw your sample from this population (explain which sampling method you will use). Justify your approach (explain why this is the best sampling method to use) and provide enough information to allow someone reading this paper to implement the approach you will use to select your sample, and the size of your sampling frame and final sample.
Describe in detail the participants or elements you will use.
Describe how you will get access to the people or elements comprising your sample.
d. What research design will you use to conduct this study?
Is your research design exploratory, descriptive, explanatory or evaluative? Explain why.
Is it best suited for a qualitative or quantitative design? Explain why.
What is the specific method that you plan to use (experiment, survey, in-depth interviews, field research, etc. Explain why this is the best method to answer your research question.
e. Instruments & Measurement Techniques (place in appendix): Locate or develop the
measurement instrument(s) you will use to collect data. If you develop your own tool, describe what it’s supposed to accomplish.
II. Data Collection
Discuss how you will collect data. Important data collection dimensions include cross-sectional versus longitudinal, direct versus archival, informed consent issues. Justify your data collection strategy. Who will actually collect the data? How will the data be collected? Describe your research protocol – what will you do to collect your data?
III. Anticipated Findings and Discussion
Consider the past research and write a summary of what you expect to find. Do you believe that your hypothesis is correct? What kind of answers do you anticipate on your survey/in-depth interview questions? Do you anticipate any types of patterns in the answers of respondents?
If your methods included surveys/quantitative research: Do you expect for there to be a relationship between your two variables? Do you expect this relationship to be strong, moderate, or weak? What kind of impact do you think the control variables will have on this relationship? Are there any spurious relationships that you think you might find?
If your methods included in-depth interviews/qualitative research: What do you think people would answer to the questions that you posed? What sorts of themes do you think would come up in the interviews and are there any questions that you posed that might create interesting findings? Do you think that the answers given would provide an explanation into a relationship between your variables?
Discuss what you expect to find in your analysis in the context of the literature review that you completed. Do your own findings support the literature or are they different from the findings in previous literature? In what ways are your findings similar or different from the prior literature? (Go into detail here) In what ways did you contribute something different to the literature – did your research question ask something new, did your methods provide a more detailed analysis?
Note the strengths and weaknesses of your study design.
Conclude with a discussion of the implications of your study for social policy (i.e. if you confirm your hypotheses, how will the resulting information be helpful to policymakers?)?
Discuss ethical concerns and demonstrate understanding/awareness of the various groups and/or stakeholders that might be involved with your proposed research project.
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