Project Management

          Final Research Project Requirements CJBS 250 and PSC 255 You may choose any topic you’d like related to Criminal Justice, Psychology, Sociology, Marketing, Public Administration. PROHIBITED TOPICS: You may not do your final research proposal on the following: Capital Punishment, Broken Windows, Racial Profiling, Stop Question & Frisk, Redlining, or ANY form of Corrections. Main Goal to be Achieved: Create a Research Proposal of 6-8 pages where you will: A. identify a topic and write a hypothesis statement which you intend to prove through survey research. All semester you have been learning the vocabulary and the concepts involved when producing and consuming research. These main points and topics from each chapter MUST BE USED if you want to earn a quality grade on your research proposal. Your hypothesis statement should begin with “I intend to prove…….” Ex. “I intend to prove that students who sit in the front of the classroom perform better academically than students who sit in the middle or the rear. Students who sit in the middle of the class do better than students who sit in the rear of the class but do not do as well as students who sit in the front of the class. In other words, your academic success relies, at least in part, upon where you sit during the classes. B. The following separate and distinct headers MUST BE USED to discern each portion of the project. • Problem or Objective — Describes what will be studied. This is your main research topic to be studied, including a brief introduction to the topic and a hypothesis statement to be proved. “I intend to prove…….” (½ page) • Literature Review — Summarizes the prior research on the topic What is known about the topic? What have other studies concluded? This is the “term paper” part of your exam. Write (2-3 pages) about other studies encompassing your topic. Use at least 3 separate sources here. Research Questions — Specifies what the research will answer This section must included 15-20 research questions that will be asked to survey participants and used in your survey in order to obtain the information you seek. Be sure to include demographic data, main substance questions, and contingency questions specifically designed to prove or disprove your main statement. This section should display a stacked list of survey questions of your choice. This section should NOT be written in paragraph form, but rather a list of questions with blank fill in answers and others with predetermined choices (2 pages) • Subjects for Study — Whom or what will be studied? This section should include exactly who you plan to ask survey questions, how this sample will be chosen. (1/2 page) • Measurement — Identifies the key variables of the study This section should clearly identify what measurements you expect to find out with your survey questions. What are you measuring, exactly? What measurements are you going to use? What are the dependent and independent variables?(1/2 page) • Data Collection Methods — Explains how observations will be collected This section explains what kind of survey structure you will use. How will this information be obtained, exactly? (1/2 page) • Analysis — Specifies how the observations will be analyzed What did you learn? What information did you get? This page is made up. It’s fabricated based on hypothetical answers that you might get. You suppose the information. This section should contain pie graphs, charts, conclusion data and summary statements (2 pages) • References — List of materials consulted and cited in the proposal This section MUST include an APA compliant reference page including no less than 5 sources. You will have points deducted if this page isn’t perfect.