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Residency 1 Seminar 15: Final Assignment: Research Plan That Will Inform the Premise and Prospectus Documents
Required Component and Description Student Response Additional Notes, Questions, and/or Next Steps
What is your proposed research topic?
A. Research Question
Write your current research question(s).
B. Research Methodology
Quantitative: Describe how you will test your research question and why you are using a quantitative approach.
Identify the source and type of secondary data that you hope to use.
C. Theoretical Foundation
List one or two potential theoretical foundations and/or conceptual frameworks that will guide your study. State the key concepts of the theory and how they are related.
D. Field/Practice Setting Gaps
Identify at least one potential gap in your field and/or practice setting that you hope to study.
Required Component and Description Student Response Additional Notes, Questions, and/or Next Steps
E. Assumptions, Limitations, and Delimitations
Identify at least one assumption, limitation, and/or delimitation.
F. Controlling and Managing Bias
Identify one strategy for controlling and managing bias in your research.
G. Summary of the Literature/Logical Fallacies
Attach a brief outline that describes the flow of your intended literature review. Describe one logical fallacy and how you will guard against this in your own writing.
H. Synthesis of the Literature
Write one paragraph that provides a synthesis of at least three articles that approach your topic from different perspectives.
Required Component and Description Student Response Additional Notes, Questions, and/or Next Steps
I. Implications for Future Research
What implications will your study have on future research?
J. Contributions to Your Discipline and to Social Change
What contributions will your research make to the discipline and/or practice setting and society?Note: Social change implications are expressed in terms of tangible improvements for individuals, communities, organizations, institutions, cultures, or societies.