In this two-page assignment, you will indicate the specific data analysis techniques that you might use to analyze the data that could be collected for your project to answer your research question and address your research purpose. Use the instructions below that are relevant to your methodology. Be sure to carefully select the correct reading and video resources, and the correct structure content to compose your essay.
For Quantitative Methods – Describe your data collection and analysis process. Describe and justify your choices.
or…
For Qualitative Methods – Describe the process for data collection, coding and categorizing data. Discuss how to uncover themes. What is the connection between sample size, data collection, and analysis saturation?
First, indicate your chosen methodology
Next, describe your data collection process from your proposed sample group
Then, describe how you plan to analyze the data your collected
Finally, add a references page. For information on APA guidelines for structure, in-text citations, and references, see the APA Post and Document Formatting and Citing Guidelines [DOCX] .
- Include separate title page
- Paragraphs must be at least three relevant and useful sentences
- Avoid run-on paragraphs – avoid long paragraphs with many topics. Each paragraph should focus on just one concept.
- Use in-text citations when referring to course content or outside sources
- Use required headings (see below in bold font), as follows:
- For Quantitative Methodology
- Chosen Methodology (state the methodology being used for your final project)
- Analysis Approach (Indicate the step-by-step approach to analyze your quantitative data. Provide this in list form using bullet points or a numbered list)
- Approach Justification (Discuss why this approach was chosen for this type of study (e.g. justify steps selected to conduct a correlational design or other design)
- References (on a separate page. All references must also be represented by in-text citations, and all in-text citations must also be represented on the references page)
- For Qualitative Methodology
- Chosen Methodology (state the methodology being used for your final project)
- Analysis Approach (Indicate the step-by-step approach to analyze your qualitative data. Provide this in list form using bullet points or a numbered list)
- Approach Justification (Discuss why this approach was chosen for this type of study (e.g. justify steps selected to conduct a qualitative phenomenological design or other design)
- References (on a separate page. All references must also be represented by in-text citations, and all in-text citations must also be represented on the references page)
- For Quantitative Methodology
Use the Week 12 Essay Guidelines [DOCX] document to guide the structure and content.
Presentation Slides
For all upcoming essays, including this one, you will also create draft presentation slides that will become part of the midterm and final projects. Each essay will be accompanied by one to three slides. See the Best Practices for PowerPoint Presentations [PDF] document for additional information. This is a gradable element of the essay assignment and will be submitted with the essay assignment.