Instructions: Please refer to Case orders 8337716 and case 8296323
the Research Design section of your paper. Also include
your IRB application as an Appendix and ideally, submit it as
one document. You won’t have your survey completed yet, so don’t worry
about attaching your survey instrument to the IRB at this point. You will
do that in Week 4. (Yet, if would like, you can attach your survey for
some general feedback)
*But feel free to submit your survey if you have it ready.
Save as many files as possible as one document, please.
The Research Design is a short section, perhaps
about a page long. Yet, it requires serious thinking about the research
question once again, the target population, the survey, and everything else
related to the research design.
Key topics to be included:
1. What type of
study are you conducting – descriptive, explanatory, etc? A single
method or a mixed method?
2. Identifying the
target population being investigated – e.g., all employees in a
company or all residents of an area, etc.
3. Description of
the survey instrument. The idea is that everyone will be using a
survey as their data collection instrument. The questions in the survey might
be developed following a certain theory, can be based on themes from an
interview, based on a previous study, etc. Explain what type of questions the
survey would include – e.g., focusing on key constructs/concepts, demographic
questions, etc. Explain in detail. You will utilize Qualtrics for data
collection. Would the question be multiple-choice, Likert Scale, open-ended,
etc. It has to be a quantitative survey (possibly with a few open-ended
questions at the end).
4. How would the
survey be administered – online, in-person, etc. Explain. You
are welcome to turn in your surveys this week if you would like. However, the
survey is NOT required this week (I hope everyone will be drafting the
questions, though).
5. Sampling
method – probability, non-probability, systemic, random, convenience,
snowball, etc.
6. Sample size –
include a sentence or two summarizing the text but add an Appendix including
your calculations.
7. Explain that data
will be analyzed via Qualtrics (or any other program).
8. Fill out the IRB
application (in most cases, an exempt one) and add it as an attachment
to Assignment 3. An IRB from a project I worked on a few years back is provided
as an example in Week 3. Please note that digital signatures are currently
accepted for the IRB application. You can attach it as a separate document (s)
(pdf is OK) or take screenshots of the pdf pages and place the IRB application
as an appendix in the Word file – your choice. If attaching separately, it will
be very helpful to combine the files, so you submit only two files – the Word
document (template) and a pdf of your IRB containing the three documents. You
will receive feedback on the IRB, but we will NOT technically send the
applications to IRB for review since we will not collect data in this class.
Don’t forget to check the provided examples of
complete proposals (see Week 1 and Week 4 on Moodle).
For your convenience, I am adding the three required
forms for your IRB applications below.
ctions: