| 6717 Rubric: | Student Name: _______________________ | | | |
| Note: The students who proposed a meta-analysis would go through the same evaluation criteria. In a meta-analysis, the "research participants" will be evaluated as research studies included as part of the research methods section. |
| Category | Scoring Criteria | Total Points |
| | Main page included: Project title, student name, name of institution name of course instructor and date of proposal submission. | 2 |
| Mechanics | Title should be Fifteen (15) words or less. APA capitalization rules should be followed. | 2 |
| | Included very little grammatical errors throughout the assignment. | 2 |
| Content | Explained the prevalence of the problem worldwide and nationwide. Described what is already known about the research topic. | 5 |
| | Included relevant references to support the statements part of the background. References should be from reliable sources of information and these should be accurate. | 2 |
| | Explained why the problem requires research. Stating a measurable research question or aim. | 5 |
| | Developed a narrative explaining the demographics (e.g., who are the research participants?), location, and the situation that lead to the problem. | 2 |
| | Provided compellig research-based evidence describing if the problem currently exists and why. | 2 |
| | Explained why the proposed research study is relevant and why the study is necessary. | 5 |
| | Literature Review: Identified gaps in the literature to support the need to conduct the proposed study. | 5 |
| | Included an introduction to the literature review by reestating the purpose of the study and the research question. | 2 |
| | Highlighted major actions and research data/literature that have been taken in regards to the topic. | 2 |
| | The study clearly describes the characteristics of the target participants or main variable of study as part of the literature. | 2 |
| | Organized the literature according to the topic chosen by themes (using proper headings) related to the research question and topic. | 2 |
| | Compared and contrasted the cited literature using evidence based studies and supported the statements in the paper by stating and explaining the gaps in the literature. | 2 |
| | Continuously synthetized the information from the cited studies. | 5 |
| | Used coherent themes: Each cited study is related to the topic and similarly to other studies. | 2 |
| | Identifyed various/sufficient insightful gaps in current literature to clearly warrant further research. | 2 |
| | Research Methods: Included an introduction of the research methods content and the reiteration of problem statement and research question. | 2 |
| | Included a description of the study population/study participants. | 2 |
| | Included a detailed explanation of the procedures used to gather data. | 2 |
| | Provided a rationale for the procedures by using arguments strenghts/weakness, costs, data availability and/or convenience. | 2 |
| | Identified the individuals for the proposed study. Described the selection of the study participants. | 2 |
| | Explained the charateristics of the research participants and described the proposed number of participants. | 2 |
| | Included the "inclusion and exclusion criteria" for including the research population. | 2 |
| | Included a description of the participants demographic characteristics and the data that was collected (e.g. age, sex, race/ethnicity and/or income and the main variables of study). | 2 |
| | Included and mentioned an informed consent (as an appendix) form to indicate that the research is voluntary. If not applicable, mention the use of consent forms anyways and why it may not be required. | 2 |
| | Described how many questions the instrument (if qualitative research) or the discussion guide (qualitative research) had to evaluate the research question. Provide examples in the write up of the questions used in survey/questionaire. Describe how the researcher will code the data and organize the questionnaire (e.g. first demographic characteristics, then explain the evaluation of research variables that answered the main research question). | 10 |
| | Described the participant's recruitment process as well as the methods used during the recruitment process. Included a description of the environment where the participants will be having the discussions. | 1 |
| | Described how the data will be organized into categories (quantitative)-- demograhic characteristics and describe variables of study based on the research question or themes (qualitative). | 5 |
| | Explained one or more strategies that established the accuracy of the findings such as: triangulation, member checking, and notes taken. For quantitative research describe where the instrument comes from and explain if it has been validated (previously used and tested) or if the instrument was previously used in other research study. | 5 |
| | Described recruitment process (e.g. Recruiting consecutively, using snowball approach, randomly), or other approaches used to recruit research participants that were free of bias. | 5 |
| | Included an appendix with the research questionnaire (quantitative research), the discussion guide (qualitative research studies) or a descriptive table fully depicting the meta-analysis research studies selection (meta-anlysis research). The appendix should include the consent form. | 5 |
| Score | Total Points | 100 |
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