In this portion of the assignment, students must compose a paper that addresses the following areas:
Conceptual framework:
• What is the problem that you are trying to address in this project?
• Why is this something you want to change?
• What is the central research question for this study?
• What is your hypothesis for this study?
• What is dependent variable in your study?
• What is the independent variable in this study?
• How are you, for the purposes of this study, defining your independent variable and your dependent variable?
• What are some potential control variables that you want to account for in this study?
• Do you foresee any problems in doing this study or implementing the intervention?
Literature review:
Use a minimum of five scientific journals found in the Adams Library database to answer the following questions:
• What does existing literature tell us about your independent variable?
• What does existing literature tell us about your dependent variable?
• What does existing literature tell us about the relationship, if any, between your independent and dependent variables?
• What does existing literature tell us about potential control variables in your study? How do they influence your independent and/or dependent variables?
*Be sure to describe any significant limitations that are present in the studies you cite.
Methods:
• What additional questions did you add to the tool and why did you add these questions?
• What intervention did you decide upon and why did you choose this intervention?
• How will you collect the data? Where? When?
• How will you store data and keep it secure?
• What logistical challenges might come up for you when you are collecting data?