11 Three Abbreviated Research Plan Consider all three research methods holistically when you compare and evaluate them as a coda to your Three Abbreviated Research Plans assignment began. The assignment: Craft a 2 page paper that compares and evaluates the strengths and limitations of each of the three research methods based upon your work with each method. Finalize each 2 page abbreviated research plan (6 pages total) in which you do the following for each plan: Provide an introduction. Provide a purpose statement. Provide viable research questions and hypotheses (where applicable). Generate a written research plan that addresses the questions that were associated with each research plan (Application 2 in Week 8 and the Application in Weeks 9 and 10). Combine these four items into one single document.

11 Three Abbreviated Research Plan Consider all three research methods holistically when you compare and evaluate them as a coda to your Three Abbreviated Research Plans assignment began. The assignment: Craft a 2 page paper that compares and evaluates the strengths and limitations of each of the three research methods based upon your work with each method. Finalize each 2 page abbreviated research plan (6 pages total) in which you do the following for each plan: Provide an introduction. Provide a purpose statement. Provide viable research questions and hypotheses (where applicable). Generate a written research plan that addresses the questions that were associated with each research plan (Application 2 in Week 8 and the Application in Weeks 9 and 10). Combine these four items into one single document.

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Provide viable research questions and hypotheses. Generate a written research plan that addresses the above questions. Review Chapter 8 in the course text, Research Design, the `Threats to Internal Validity` handout, and the `Quantitative Methods: Examples` media segment. Consult Table 8.1 (p. 147) and/or Table 8.4 (p. 156) in the course text, Research Design, to guide you in polishing your abbreviated quantitative research plan. Access the list of research problem scenarios in the Learning Resources. Find the research problem scenario for your discipline. You will work with this same scenario for the next three weeks. Based on your discipline's research problem scenario, create a problem statement. Draft an introduction for your abbreviated research plan. Next, ask yourself the following questions: What are your research questions? To what extent can you test them? How would you justify the viability of your questions? What are your hypotheses? How would you test them? Why would this design be the most appropriate for answering the research questions? Conversely, why would qualitative and mixed methods designs not be appropriate? What quantitative approach would you select for this study? Why is that approach the most appropriate one for answering the research questions? What theoretical framework or perspective would you use? What is your target population? How would you identify and recruit participants? What factors would contribute to determining appropriate sample size? You will not need to calculate sample size for this assignment. What are the independent and dependent variables? If appropriate for your plan, what instruments might you need? What data collection procedures might you use? Why would those be the most appropriate methods to use? How would that data help to answer your research question(s)/hypotheses? What are threats to validity? How might you mitigate them? How might you analyze the data? What are the ethical considerations related to the plan? Course Text: Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches Chapter 8, `Quantitative Methods` Creswell guides the reader through quantitative methods and plans. Use this chapter for the Discussion and Application 2. Media: `Quantitative Methods: An Example` (12:51). Click here to download a transcript of this video segment. Dr. George Smeaton discusses a representative quantitative research design. To view this video program, use the media player located at the top of this page. Handout: Measurement of Variables (Word document)

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Based on your discipline's (human services) research problem scenario, create a problem statement.

Draft an introduction for your abbreviated research plan.

Next, ask yourself the following questions:

What are your research questions? To what extent can you test them? How would you justify the viability of your questions?

What are your hypotheses? How would you test them?

Why would this design be the most appropriate for answering the research questions? Conversely, why would qualitative and mixed methods designs not be appropriate?

What quantitative approach would you select for this study? Why is that approach the most appropriate one for answering the research questions?

What theoretical framework or perspective would you use?

What is your target population? How would you identify and recruit participants? What factors would contribute to determining appropriate sample size? You will not need to calculate sample size for this assignment.

What are the independent and dependent variables?

If appropriate for your plan, what instruments might you need?

What data collection procedures might you use? Why would those be the most appropriate methods to use? How would that data help to answer your research question(s)/hypotheses?

What are threats to validity? How might you mitigate them?

How might you analyze the data?

What are the ethical considerations related to the plan?