Assignment Instructions/ Description
1. The research questions and hypotheses that your design will attempt to examine.
2. The indicators/variables that your design will measure – all dependent and independent variables – including any control variables that you might include in your analysis. In this section, you should clearly describe what these indicators/variables are and how exactly these indicators will be defined and measured.
3. The research design that you will recommend and a justification for this design. In the discussion, please address the validity of the design and how the design will assure this validity. Potential threats to both internal and external validity should be addressed.
4. The sampling design that you will recommend and a justification for this sampling approach. In other words, how will you decide where your subjects and information will come from to measure these indicators?
5. The type of data that you would collect. What data are necessary to answer the questions/measure the variables and how will you collect it?
6. The data analysis techniques that you would recommend. What specific statistical techniques would be appropriate for analyzing the data?
Your analysis should be relatively brief (approximately 7-8 single spaced pages) but should cover all six areas presented above.
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