Research Proposal: Research Question and Methodology Throughout this course, you will plan and propose a qualitative research design of your choice, which may (or may not) involve an area of interest...

Research Proposal: Research Question and Methodology

Throughout this course, you will plan and propose a qualitative research design of your choice, which may (or may not) involve an area of interest for your doctoral dissertation. You will select a research topic, generate researchable questions, review relevant literature, choose a methodology, describe participant selection procedures, identify data collection methods, address potential ethical problems, and describe limitations of your research proposal.

This assignment is the next step toward completing your final research proposal in Week 6. In a less than ten page page paper, answer both of the following:

• Drawing on your topic from Week 1 Written Assignment, and the review of the literature you have been compiling, create a specific research question and possibly a small number of subquestions that will help you investigate the research problem. Remember, you will be using a qualitative methodology, so make your research question match the types of questions that methodology can answer. Your research question will be very specific. Drawing from the literature you have been compiling, provide a brief justification for your research question.

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  Develop your methodology and research plan to answer your research question, including:

  
  
  
  
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    Research Methodology: Describe what research methodology you will use to answer your research questions and why it is an appropriate method.

    
    
  
  
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    Propose a Research Plan, including:

    
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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     Participant Selection: If applicable, describe the site of the data collection. Explain who your participants will be and what method you will use to select them. Be as specific as possible, as if you were giving directions to someone on how to choose and obtain the participants. Include instructions on how to get informed consent from the participants.

     
     
  
  
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     Data Collection: Discuss how you will collect the data (interviews, observations, documents, etc.). Tell what sort of questions you will ask (for interviews) or what you will look for (for observations) and why that will help you answer your research questions. Include the interview guide including how to conduct interviews for your study and what questions will be asked in an Appendix.

     
     
  
  
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     Appendix that contains your interview guide or other collection guide.