- Identify your specific research question. Discuss why the research question is good based on the four essential characteristics that were discussed.
- Why is this research problem/topic worthy of investigation? Use relevant literature with at least three (3) articles that are no older than ten (10) years.
- Prepare a mini literature review using at least seven (7) articles no older than ten (10) years. The literature review should summarize/synthesize research that has already been conducted about the topic, showing patterns, disagreements, gaps, and indicate how your research fits in. The literature review should be written in APA format.
- Identify the specific research method that would be most appropriate to address your specific research question. Include if the method is quantitative or qualitative.
- Explain in detail why this method would be most appropriate.
- Identify the proposed subjects for your study. Provide demographic information about the subjects. Why are these the appropriate subjects to conduct the study?
- Identify what type of sampling method you would utilize for your proposed study. Why is this the most appropriate sampling method for this research?
- What are the ethical concerns that may arise with conducting your research? How will you as the researcher deal with these ethical concerns?
- Which IRB category will this research fall into? Provide an explanation.
- Identify and attach the proposed instrument(s) would be used to collect the data for your research. You should consider using an instrument from research that has been already been conducted.
- What is the validity and reliability of the proposed instrument?