Building off of the topic that you selected and was approved, continue to work on your concept paper by selecting and describing a preliminary study design and data collection method you would like to use in this assignment.
Assignment Tips
- Select a study design. Keep in mind that qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods are not study designs.
- Remember this is your plan for how you are going to conduct your research study. Following your data collection plan, I should be able to collect your data for you.
- Data Collection should consider the following:
- Participants/Sampling
- How many participants are you going to have?
- How will you locate participants?
- What is your sampling methodology?
- Data
- What data are you going to collect?
- How are you going to collect that data? -probably survey and interview
- How are you going to track data?
- If you are using things such as laboratory testing, how are you going to get the results?
- Who would be responsible for any fees such as laboratory testing fees?
- Analysis
- How are you going to analyze your data?
- Will any data analytic software be used?