Research Proposal: Literature Review and Methods Assignment:
Literature Review (5 pages)
Method Section (2 pages)
Especially important is to provide the research questions and hypotheses (see attachments) having incorporated the feedback (will provide once received). Submitting your work this way enables me to see the continuity between Part 1 and Part 2.
The literature review needs to be synthesized just like the way you find the background information or literature review (whatever it is called) in a peer-reviewed journal’s research article. (See attachments).
In an effective research method section in a proposal, you should be careful to include the following:
Research methodology (hint: it has to be quantitative in this class)
Research design – based upon the quantitative methodology. Is it a correlational, causal-comparative, or quasi-experimental design? (It will not be an experiment in all likelihood. We do not conduct experiments in the field with people in business.)
Research process – what are you going to do? Provide information on data collection: Will you conduct a process using questionnaire data, use existing archival or historical data, gather results of behaviors, and/or some other process. If you have participants, how will you enlist them? How will you ensure informed consent? What will you have them do? What is your role in collection data? What instruments will you use and their validity and reliability? What process will you use? Provide how you will analyze the data: What do you foresee to be the process? What are your variables? What type are they-independent, predictor, or dependent. What measurement type are they – interval, nominal, ordinal, ratio? What statistical test will you use and why? What are the assumptions for the statistical test and how will you assess for them and what will you do if they are not met?
Rubric
Content:
This paper meets content requirements:
• Sufficiently includes a literature. review section that is five pages long
• Sufficiently includes a methods section that is two pages long
• Sufficiently includes all sections that meet the length, accuracy and quality requirements
Format:
The paper meets structure requirements:
• Proper spelling and grammar are used.
• Proper APA formatting is used.