You are about to complete Project One, which is on the next page. First, review your project guidelines and rubric criteria.

Project Guidelines

By completing this project, you’ll be demonstrating that you can determine an appropriate research methodology and design aligned to a specific research question.

Scenario

You are a research assistant for a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at a university. You have been asked to develop a research plan focused on one of the topics the faculty member is interested in studying.

For this project, you will review the topics provided by your faculty member and select the topic that interests you most. Then you will use the library to find relevant empirical and scholarly research studies to inform the research. Finally, you will develop a research plan to submit to your faculty member.

Rubric Summary

In grading this activity, 85% of your points will be allocated based on how well you answer the prompts for the following rubric criteria:

· Determines the plan’s background introduction.

· Develops a clear and specific research question that is relevant to the three research studies chosen.

· Develops a clear, specific, and testable hypothesis that corresponds to the research question.

· Describes aspects of sampling that would be considered while acquiring participants for the study.

· Selects a design (experimental or correlational) for the proposed study that aligns with the research question and hypothesis.

· Selects a measure to operationally define each of the conceptual variables.

· Describes the type of analysis and the p value required to support the hypothesis.

· Develops the plan’s discussion content.

The remaining 15% of your grade will be allocated based on your use of correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, as well as your use of citations for any ideas requiring attribution.

For more details on how you’ll be graded, refer to the Project One Guidelines and Rubric page in Brightspace.

Exemplar (exempt from this instructions)

Review the exemplar below and use it as a model for completing your assignment. Pay special attention to what type of evidence is provided to support each response and note that the responses include in-text citations.

Takeaways

In the exemplar above, you can see the steps necessary for completing Project One. These include:

· a summary (background introduction) of three relevant empirical and scholarly articles

· a clear and specific research question

· development of a research plan to address the research question

On the next page, it will be your turn to select your research studies, write a research question, and then develop a research plan. When you are finished with your answers, you’ll download them as a Word document (much like the exemplar above), which you’ll turn in through Brightspace.