· Assessing and Recommending Quantitative Research Designs Last week and this week focused on types of quantitative research designs. For this assignment, you will select the design most appropriate for your research plan and justify your choice. Furthermore, you will be asked to explain why other designs were not appropriate. To prepare for this Application: Review , "Research Designs: Experiments" and, "Research Designs: Cross-Sectional and Quasi-Experimental Designs" in the course text Research Methods in the Social Sciences . What are the strengths and limitations of each of the designs presented Consider the quantitative research plan you are developing and your research questions, hypotheses, and variables. What kind of design would you recommend for your plan? What is your rationale for this choice? What is your rationale for NOT selecting another design? What threats to validity must you consider and avoid with your design? How might you increase internal and external validity? The assignment: Craft a 5-page paper in which you do the following: o Recommend a quantitative design for your research plan. Include a rationale for why that design would be most appropriate. o For the designs that you did not choose, state why each one is not appropriate for your research questions, hypotheses, and variables. o Support your work with references to the literature. .

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Assessing and Recommending Quantitative Research Designs
Last week and this week focused on types of quantitative
research designs. For this assignment, you will select the design
most appropriate for your research plan and justify your choice.
Furthermore, you will be asked to explain why other designs
were not appropriate.
To prepare for this Application:
Review , "Research Designs: Experiments" and, "Research
Designs: Cross-Sectional and Quasi-Experimental Designs" in
the course text
Research Methods in the Social Sciences
. What are the strengths and limitations of each of the designs
presented
Consider the quantitative research plan you are developing and
your research questions, hypotheses, and variables. What kind
of design would you recommend for your plan? What is your
rationale for this choice? What is your rationale for NOT
selecting another design?
What threats to validity must you consider and avoid with your
design? How might you increase internal and external validity?
The assignment:

2. Craft a 5-page paper in which you do the following:
o
Recommend a quantitative design for your research plan.
Include a rationale for why that design would be most
appropriate.
o
For the designs that you did not choose, state why each one is
not appropriate for your research questions, hypotheses, and
variables.
o
Support your work with references to the literature.