Research Proposal
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MyResearchProblemandQuestions.docxMy Own Research Problem and Questions:
1.What is your research problem?
My research problem is an action research titled Students’ media preference for the online class in our university.
2. What are your research question(s)?
(1) What kind of media is most effective for undergraduate level students’ comprehensive performance in online class in our university?
(2) Is there any relationship between their media preference and course type?
3. What literature (e.g. peer reviewed articles…) did you refer to when you formulate your research questions? List two articles.
I'd like to choose the journals to formulate my research.
(2) Lyons, Reysen, & Pierce. (2011). Video lecture format, student technological efficacy, and social presence in online courses. Computers in Human Behavior, Computers in Human Behavior.
4. What type of research design would be used?
I’d like to use the quantitative method to design this research.
5. Provide details about how your participants would be recruited. Who are your participants? How are you going to recruit them?
For the first research question, I would like to use quantitative method of choosing 30 undergraduate students in CSUSB randomly and divide them into 3 groups, 10 students for each one, I show them a kind of media of online humanity class of a group and give them a test, all of the materials are the same content only the different expression method. Then, the second question will be achieved by survey questionnaire. Choosing 5 students of our sample and give them questionnaires to collect data.
6. What types of data would you collect?
I’ll collect the grades of the test and the result of survey questionnaires of their demographic characters and preference.
Reference:
Reason, P., & Bradbury, H. (2001a). Inquiry and participation in search of a world worthy of human aspiration. In P. Reason & H. Bradbury (Eds.), Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice (pp. 1–14). London: SAGE.
