The purpose of exercise is to develop a short questionnaire containing both closeended
survey questions and openended
questions.  You will go through the research design process from research question, to survey construction, to analysis of
survey results and theory building using a peer reviewed
article.
Requirements:
Your assignment should include
All
sections 19
This assignment does not have to be written in essay format. You may organize it by section, question number with question text,
and then your answer.
APA formatting should be used throughout. Any time your paraphrase or directly quote a source (such as your article), intext
citations should be used. A full APAformatted
reference should be included at the beginning or end of assignment.
Disclaimer
Originality of attachments will be verified by Turnitin. Both you and your instructor will receive the results.
1.Research Question (1pt)
1) Develop a clear, specific, sociological research question that will investigate the relationship between two social
phenomena/behaviors/facts.
2. Conceptual and Operational Definitions (5pts)
2) Clearly identify the variables in your research question
3) Identify which variable is your independent variable, and which variable is your dependent variable.
4) Provide a conceptual definition for each variable. (i.e. similar to dictionary definition)
5) Describe what ‘type’ of variable each variable is.
6) Provide an operational definition for each variable. (i.e. how the variable is going to be measured)
3. Hypothesis (1pt)
7) Develop a hypothesis for your research question – a statement of what direction you believe the relationship between your two
variables will be.
4. Questionnaire Construction (3 pts)
8) Develop 510
closedended
questions
a. Some of these should measure basic sociodemographic
characteristics (i.e. age, race/ethnicity, gender, SES)
b. The rest should be indicators for your variables
c. These should be constructed based on the ‘type’ of variable you are measuring.
9) Develop 25
openended
questions for to help measure your variables (tips: the “why” and “how” questions)
a. This is going to help provide some rich qualitative information and serve as a check for the internal validity of your closeended.

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