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Final Research Proposal Requirement You have been working on your applied research proposal over the past two terms. You have chosen a topic, developed a problem statement, reviewed research literature, and proposed a plan for data collection and analysis. While you will not go out and complete the data collection, you have learned how research can be applied to improve an organization or impact policy in a community. Take a moment to review APA formatting prior to submitting your final research project. Ensure that you have followed all guidelines with in-text citations and your final reference page. Your final project is to put everything together again. You will be adding to your literature review, as well as developing the final expected results and dissemination plan sections of the proposal. You will also be carefully reviewing the feedback you received from your professor on earlier versions of the proposal. Review each section of the proposal carefully and make all necessary revisions. 1. Project Timeline: Create a timeline (with due dates) for the completion of each major milestone in the research study, including a brief narrative that describes the associated tasks that would need to be completed for each milestone. 2. Introduction: Introduce the study topic/problem and where the issue is occurring, highlighting key statistics or examples to illustrate the applied research problem. 3. Problem Statement: Set forth a succinct statement addressing the 5 Ws of the proposed study: What the problem is, Why it is a problem, Where specifically the problem is occurring, Who/What will be studied, and over what time period (When) you would propose to conduct the study. 4. Organizational Behavior: Discuss the theoretical principles of organizational behavior, applying them to your study setting and explaining how they might impact your data collection, analysis, and/or interpretation of results. 5. Literature Review: Review a total of at least 15 original studies directly related to your topic and reported in peer-reviewed sources. The review should include the following: 1. · Introduction: Introduce the research and scope of the review. · Theoretical Considerations: Discuss theoretical considerations or assumptions relevant to your issue, identifying the criminological theory or theories that would help to explain the relationship that you hypothesize exists between your independent and dependent variables. · Review of the Research: Review at least 15 original research studies on your topic, summarizing the results of each study and comparing the results to the larger body of research on the topic. · Summary and Conclusions: Synthesize your review into a summary of what is known and what is not known from the research that has been conducted on your topic. 6. Methods (formerly called Research Design): Outline how you would propose to collect and analyze data for your study by addressing the following: 1. · Research Purpose/Goal: Describe the purpose of your research (exploration, description, explanation, and/or evaluation) and the goal(s) you would hope to achieve were you to conduct the study. · Study Variables and Definitions: Identify your main independent and dependent variables. Provide conceptual and operational definitions for each of these variables, ensuring that the attributes are mutually exclusive and exhaustive. Identify the level of measurement for each variable (nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio). · Validity and Reliability: Discuss potential threats to the validity (face, content, criterion-related, and construct validity) and reliability of your study. Describe the specific steps you would take to ensure that your data collection and data analyses are both accurate (valid) and consistent (reliable). Discuss techniques you would use to evaluate the reliability of your study. · Research Hypothesis: Identify the research hypothesis or hypotheses that you would test were you to conduct the proposed study, making sure you have clearly stated the hypothesized relationship between your main independent and dependent variables. · Data Approach: Describe whether you will take a qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods approach to your research. Explain the rationale for your choice, describing why this approach would most effectively permit you to test your research hypothesis. · Research Method: Explain the primary research method for your proposed study and why it is the most effective method for studying the problem (e.g., experimental, quasi-experimental, correlational, causal comparative, field research, evaluation research, existing data research). Describe your approach to the time dimension of research. Will you use a cross-sectional or longitudinal design? Will you propose collecting retrospective or prospective data? Explain the rationale for your selections. · Sampling Strategy: Explain how you would identify members of the population from which to select your study sample. Identify the specific type of probability or non-probability sampling you would use, providing rationale for why this is the most appropriate type of sampling for your study, with support from the readings. Explain the process you would follow to select subjects using this type of sampling, the projected sample size, and the proportion/percentage of the population that your sample would represent. · Data Collection: How would you collect the data? What data collection tools would you use? Would you use quantitative surveys/questionnaires, qualitative interviews, participant observation, focus groups, pre/post tests, and/or existing data, for example? Discuss any data collection instruments that you would have to develop and include examples of the questions you would ask or data fields that you would collect. If proposing to use more than one form of data collection, explain why each form is necessary for your proposed study and how each would address your hypothesis. If you had to actually collect the data for the study, how would you schedule and coordinate the data collection? Be specific in your explanation. · Data Analysis: Explain how you would prepare your data to analyze it, distinguishing quantitative from qualitative data preparation. Discuss how you would code and analyze the data. For qualitative data, explain how you would theme the data, identifying potential labels and codes. Explain how you would tabulate results from themed qualitative data and highlight noteworthy quotes. Describe the descriptive and/or inferential statistics you would propose using, explaining the associated measures and the variables involved (e.g., mode, median, mean, crosstabs, correlations, regression). Explain how these measures would permit you to effectively test your research hypothesis. · Additional Issues or Resources: Describe additional steps you would need to take to obtain access to study subjects and/or data for your research. What additional resources would you need in order to collect and analyze your data? For example, would you need pens, pencils, and paper for survey administration, or might you administer your survey online? If online, how would you do that? If proposing some aspect of field observation, what data collection forms would you need in order to record observations? Explain your responses. 7. Expected Results: Discuss the specific outcomes or measures you would expect to have if you completed the proposed study, and to whom/what the outcomes would apply. The expected results should directly align with your problem statement, hypothesis, data collection, and data analysis plans. For example, if your study is intended to test whether body-worn cameras reduce citizen complaints against police officers, the expected results would be outcomes related to the number of complaints before and after officers were issued cameras. 8. Dissemination Plan: Describe how you would report your research findings, to whom you would report results, and who might benefit from the information. What charts, figures, and/or tables would you use to summarize results? For qualitative data, how would you present your descriptive data and present noteworthy quotes? Providing example tables and charts can aid in illustrating your plans. Examples might include realistic expected results for your key independent and dependent variables, but would not contain actual data, since the study is only being proposed and not conducted. Discuss the contributions that could be made to practical application, explaining how leaders and policymakers could benefit from your research to develop or refine policies and practices to address the studied problem. 9. Ethical Considerations: Discuss the ethical issues that would need to be addressed before conducting your proposed study. Such issues include, but are not limited to, honesty, confidentiality, carefulness, objectivity, respect for intellectual property, transparency, and human subject considerations. Describe how you would ensure the protection of any human subjects and confidentiality of data, including how you would ensure informed consent of all study participants. Attach an example of the consent form you would use for your proposed study. Include the consent form as an appendix in your Unit 6 Final Research Proposal. 10. Conclusion: Provide a summary of the problem and plan for studying the issue, emphasizing why the research is important and what would be accomplished were the proposed study to be conducted. 11. References: Include full APA references for all in-text citations in the body of your research proposal. 12. Appendices: Include appendices, if any, to supplement the information presented in the research proposal. Directions In addition to fulfilling the specifics of the assignment, a successful paper must also meet the following criteria: · Your paper should include a title page and reference page and be in 10- to 12-point font. (Arial, Courier, and Times New Roman are acceptable.) · Viewpoint and purpose should be clearly established and sustained. · Assignment should follow the conventions of Standard English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.). · Writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful. · Your work should display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics. · Appropriate citation style should be followed. You should also make sure to: · Include a title page with full name, class name, section number, and date. · Include introductory and concluding paragraphs and demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard English. · Use examples to support your discussion. · List all sources on a separate reference page at the end of your paper and cite them within the body of your paper using APA format and citation style. For more information on APA guidelines, visit Academic Tools.