Thesis and research proposal

Research Proposal Instructions

Your Research Proposal will be based on the topic you chose for the Thesis statement. This proposal does not need the research carried out, nor do you need to know the specific statistical analysis. The statistical guide in the link below has a decision process. The guide is under statistics > online statistics guide.

  http://thedoctoraljourney.com/online-statistics-guide/ ​

The assignment is intended to help you begin thinking about appropriate research techniques. Your research must be related to your research question.

Your Research Proposal must include an introduction containing an abstract of the literature review that consists of 1–2 paragraphs with cited references from literature that supports the need for the study that is being proposed as well as a 2-paragraph rationale for your study. You must state your research question in the introduction.

In the body of your proposal, you must explain the methods for your research. Describe your participants, the criteria used in the selection of your participants, the setting in which your investigation will occur, and the materials/equipment that will be used. Describe the response definition and data collection procedures, including relevant data forms. Operationally describe your procedures. In general terms, describe the experimental design of your study. Describe the reliability assessment procedures, both dependent measure and procedural reliability.

You must end your Research Proposal with your conclusion and discussion which will summarize the proposal as you do not yet have results. Provide a summary as it relates to your research question. Explain implications for future research/teaching.

A sample Research Proposal can be found in the dissertation collection, and a Grading Rubric for which your proposal will be measured against is provided in the Assignment Instructions folder.

The Research Proposal must be 4 pages, written in current APA format.

**The link to the dissertation portal is provided in hopes that you will find a dissertation that is similar in nature to your topic. This will help your design immensely.