EDUU 600 Signature Assignment

Research Design Project

Purpose: The Signature Assignment for EDUU 600 is the Research Design Project. The purpose of this project is to…

confirm student acquisition of research skills sufficient to design a meaningful, Master’s level/quality research project, and
demonstrate that these skills can be communicated appropriately in APA style/formatting.
As this is an eight-week course, collecting data for your assignment is not possible and thus, not a part of this project. However, students are expected to adhere to scholarly journal publishing standards by writing this project in the third person. Additionally, in keeping with the desired standards, your Research Design Project must be written in the past tense, the accepted tense for all scientific research and formal scholarly manuscripts. You may choose either a quantitative, qualitative or mixed-method research design for this project.

Please remember, the APA writing and structural guidelines are rigorously adheared to in academic publishing. As the work you will be doing throughout the rest of your Master’s classes at Brandman will not be formally published, you may find that individual courses or specific instructors may ask for/require modifications to the formatting of your work (such as not requiring a title page or requesting a Table of Contents in the write-up of a non-chapter paper study). You must always be clear with the expectations for each different paper throughout your program; thus, you are reminded to carefully read the mechanics or formatting section of each rubric you encounter as you continue in your studies beyond this class.

Directions:

Develop a research design project on a topic of interest.
Write a paper that explains your project using the headings and subheadings described below. As a rule of thumb, the average length of the Research Design Project runs between 12-15 pages, cover to cover.
In the body of your paper, where it is appropriate, there must be at least 2 properly used and cited paraphrases and at least 2 properly used and cited quotes.
This Signature Assignment must include/conform to the following structure and elements:

Title Page (APA Format)

Introduction

Significance of the study (explain why you selected the topic you did, and make connections to the literature on the topic)
Statement of the problem and purpose of the study
Research question and/or hypotheses
Brief Review of the Literature

Three to five peer-reviewed research studies
Review summary further establishes the significance of your study and problem statement
NOTE: This section is the most likely area for your required minimum of 2 properly used and cited paraphrases and minimum of 2 properly used and cited quotes; however, you have full discretion to include these elswhere in the paper where you feel they are appropriate (often a meaningful quote is used in an Introduction section).
Design and Methodology

Based on the research design you have selected describe the following:

Quantitative
Participants, instrumentation, procedures, data analysis procedures, and limitations of

the design

Qualitative
Site or social network, research role, purposeful sampling strategies, data collection strategies, data management and analysis, and limitations of the design.

Mixed Method
Logic, participants and sampling strategies, research site or context, data collection, procedures, data analysis and results, and limitations of the design.

Reflection

Justify why you feel a quantitative, qualitative, or mixed method design is the best choice for this study?
Explain how your research design and methodology informs the questions or hypotheses of this study?
In what ways do you feel this study might contribute to the body of knowledge on this topic?
How might the results of this type of study improve your own practice?
How might the results of this study influence decisions made by your school or district?
What do you feel are the biggest challenges or roadblocks for conducting this study?
In what ways has this process of designing a research study influenced your own views of educational research?

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