Statistics for Research Proposal

HSCI-460: Research in Health and Human Sciences

Rubric for the Research Proposal

Description of the Research Proposal. The description needs to be outline in format & contain the following:

· Introduction ( needs to include Statement of the purpose of the research)

· Statement of the research question

· Identify the independent and dependent variables

· Note: if your study is descriptive in nature, provide information about the data to be gathered

& identify at least two study variables you would control (controlled variables)

· Statement of research hypothesis

· If you are not testing a hypothesis, state the objective of your study

· Description of the Study (Accessible) population and method of sampling

· Description of specific inclusion and exclusion criteria

· Description of the research design

· Explain which descriptive and/ or inferential (if appropriate) statistics you would use in your study

· References in MLA or APA style (at least 3 of your references need to be from published papers in print)

Criteria	Points
Introduction (with statement of research purpose) Research question Identify the independent, dependent variables and controlled variables Statement of research hypothesis (or why not appropriate) Description of the Study (Accessible) population and method of sampling Description of specific inclusion and exclusion criteria Description of the research design Statistics References (at least 5) Spelling, grammar, and clarity	20 10 20 10 20 10 30 20 20 20
Total points	180