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Do you plan to use a standardized instrument or design your own? How does this

instrument affect issues of reliability and validity (discuss)? Discuss instrument biases. Identify

independent & dependent variables. Discuss how this instrument will be scored.

Data Collections

How will you distribute your instrument or where will you do the observations? What is

your timetable and what reminders will you give to respondents to get instruments back to you in

time to complete your study?

Data Analysis Plan

What statistics do you plan to collect: descriptive/univariate statistics (frequency,

central tendency, etc.) Inferential statistics (Pearson’s r, ANOVA, etc.) Bivariate, multivariate

statistics, and how do you plan to do your analysis?

Ethical Consideration (Human Subject Protections)

When and how will you submit for Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval? What

safeguards are in place in your study to protect human subjects? Consider both emotional and /

or physical harm. Consider who the subjects are and if children or some other vulnerable

population.

What is your basic ethical approach? What are the power differentials between you and

your subjects, and how will you protect them from any possible abuses? What steps are you

taking to insure informed consent? Provide a copy of any introductory letter and consent forms

in the appendix.

Bias

We all have biases; the most insidious are those of which we are unaware or

unacknowledged. What makes you different from your subjects? Is it race, ethnicity, social

class, education, work experience, physical or mental ability, gender identity, sexual

orientation, etc? How might these differences impede your investigation (invisibility,

insensitivity, overgeneralization, double standards, dichotomization)?

Assumptions

What do you need to take for granted to answer your question or test your

hypothesis? (e.g. honest responses from participants, typical population, heuristic value

of a certain theory, normal distribution, etc.)

Limitations

Now that you have an idea (from your literature review) how broad your topic could be,

tell the reader what it is that you are deliberately not going to study. What aspects of the

problem are outside your interests at this point (or for this paper)? Then, if you had 3

years and $1,000,000 what are some of the things you could or would improve about

your design, sample, analysis, etc.

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