(Ongoing Assignment) Prompt For this assessment, you will create a research proposal centered on a testable research question and hypothesis, substantiated with peer-reviewed research. In the following course, Research Methods II, you will actually conduct research around your research question, guided by your proposal. You are required to use your university classmates as your research participants, so keep in mind when creating your research question and proposal that the topic must be one that is approachable and able to be answered by your colleagues. You are prohibited from using anyone outside of Southern New Hampshire University for your study. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: I. Problem Statement: Describe the general topic you will address and its importance and relevance to real-world issues. II. Literature Review: In this section, you will use existing research on your subject and draw conclusions for informing your research proposal. a) Summarize existing, applicable research in the field around your topic, utilizing peer- reviewed sources. b) Identify the different research designs that have been used to generate knowledge on this topic, and describe how they differ. c) Differentiate between the research designs for their advantages and disadvantages in addressing the research questions, providing specific examples from the research. d) Evaluate the appropriateness of the research designs to the research questions, providing justification for your assertions. Which design seems most appropriate in addressing the question and why? e) Summarize what is unknown or uncertain about your topic, synthesizing the               applicable existing research on the topic. f) Discuss the appropriateness of the data analysis procedures used in the literature as they relate to the American Psychological Association’s principles and standards. Consider the assumptions made and presentation of data. III.Research Question and Hypothesis a) Based on your research about the topic, create a testable research question. b) Create a testable hypothesis based on your research question and research about the topic, explaining the extent to which the research supports your hypothesis. c) Describe the variables that will be measured and/or manipulated in your study, and explain the selection of variables. Specifically, what independent and dependent variables will be used to test your hypothesis? IV. Proposed Methodology a) Outline who you plan to use as participants and how many participants you will need, providing justification. b) Describe the materials (surveys, etc.) that will be used in your study and why these materials are most appropriate for your proposal, justifying claims with resources. c) Describe the procedures you will use to collect your data and how these will appropriately address your research question. d) Discuss the ethical concerns involved in your study and the steps you will take ...

1. (Ongoing Assignment)
Prompt
For this assessment, you will create a research proposal
centered on a testable research question and hypothesis,
substantiated with peer-reviewed research. In the following
course, Research Methods II, you will actually conduct research
around your research question, guided by your proposal. You
are required to use your university classmates as your research
participants, so keep in mind when creating your research
question and proposal that the topic must be one that is
approachable and able to be answered by your colleagues. You
are prohibited from using anyone outside of Southern New
Hampshire University for your study.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Problem Statement:
Describe the general topic you will address and its importance
and relevance to real-world issues.
II. Literature Review: In this section, you will use existing
research on your subject and draw
conclusions for informing your research proposal.
a) Summarize existing, applicable research in the field around
your topic, utilizing peer- reviewed sources.
b) Identify the different research designs that have been used to
generate knowledge on this topic, and describe how they differ.
c) Differentiate between the research designs for their
advantages and disadvantages
in addressing the research questions, providing specific
examples from the research.
d) Evaluate the appropriateness of the research designs to the
research questions, providing justification for your assertions.
Which design seems most appropriate in addressing the question

2. and why?
e) Summarize what is unknown or uncertain about your topic,
synthesizing the applicable
existing research on the topic.
f) Discuss the appropriateness of the data analysis procedures
used in the literature as they relate to the American
Psychological Association’s principles and standards. Consider
the assumptions made and presentation of data.
III.Research Question and Hypothesis
a) Based on your research about the topic, create a testable
research question.
b) Create a testable hypothesis based on your research question
and research about the topic, explaining the extent to which the
research supports your hypothesis.
c) Describe the variables that will be measured and/or
manipulated in your study, and explain the selection of
variables. Specifically, what independent and dependent
variables will be used to test your hypothesis?
IV. Proposed Methodology
a) Outline who you plan to use as participants and how many
participants you will need, providing justification.
b) Describe the materials (surveys, etc.) that will be used in
your study and why these materials are most appropriate for
your proposal, justifying claims with resources.
c) Describe the procedures you will use to collect your data and
how these will appropriately address your research question.
d) Discuss the ethical concerns involved in your study and the
steps you will take to remedy them. Consider who will be
studied, what risks they will be exposed to, and what steps will
be taken to maintain the confidentiality of their responses and
to obtain informed consent.
V. Data Analysis Plan
a) Explain what procedures you will use to prepare your raw
data for analysis. If you have open-ended questions, how will
they be coded? If you collected responses to multiple survey
questions, how will the data be aggregated for analysis?

3. b) Propose general analytical procedures that you will use to
analyze your data, and explain how these procedures will help
obtain valid and reliable research results.
c) Describe which descriptive statistics that could be obtained
from your data would be most informative in answering your
research question and why.
d) Discuss how your proposed data analysis methods are ethical
and aligned to the American Psychological Association’s
principles and standards.
VI. Anticipated Results: What do you expect the results of your
study to be, and how do your expected results complement or
contradict the results in previous literature?
Final Submission:
Research Proposal
In Module Ten, you will submit your final project. It should be
a complete, polished artifact containing all of the critical
elements of the final product. It should reflect the incorporation
of feedback gained throughout the course. This submission will
be graded with the Final Product Rubric.