The Quantitative Term Project

You will be responsible for your own term paper. It should be unique, unlike anyone else's, although you will work in groups to help develop it. Use your peers to help improve upon your paper.

This term project is to follow the scientific method and actually create a quantitative research project.

You have already started on it with the answers you gave at the last of Midterm #1. You can, of course, change from the answers you already gave using your own discretion.

Consider all the steps you need to take and when they should be accomplished:

The Eleven Stages of a Quantitative Research Project

1) Define a research topic (you have already done this)

2) Intensify knowledge about the topic (do library research to see what has already been done on the subject)

3) Clarify concepts and their measurements (be very specific)

4) Select a data collection method (if you did not use your existing data source, how would you go about getting information on this subject?)

5) Consider the purpose, value, and ethics of the study (why bother doing this study?)

6) Operationalize concepts and design the data collection instruments (define the BEST way to get the information that you want)

7) Select a sample (although you may use an existing data source, who would you have interviewed if you did not have an existing data source)

8) Collect the data (you may use an existing data source)

9) Process the data (tell how you would use it)

10) Analyze the data (optional; for a bit of extra credit)

11) Write up the results. It is especially important that you list, just before your conclusion, the LIMITATIONS of your study. Tell specifically what you would have liked to do if you had enough time and money. Suggest what further studies should be taken on this subject.

Due on or BEFORE the last day of class.

Use the correct format:
1- Title
2- Author (you)
3- Abstract
4- Introduction to the subject (includes what the current literature says on the subject [use #2 above] and then the paradigm you are using followed up by your theoretical basis --name the originator of the theory and explain it briefly)
5- State why you are doing the study [5 above]
6-Your hypothesis (at least one).
7- State how the research should be done [3, 4, 6 above].
8- Next state the sampling your would want to do for this study [7 above]
9- Report on 8, 9, and 10 above -in that order.
10- Write up the LIMITATIONS of this particular study
11- Write up the conclusion of the study (this, of course, must match what you put in the abstract).
12- List your bibliography (the sources that you used) in the correct format.