Gun violence in schools

How to control gun violence in schools

Objective: To use the knowledge gained over Part I, Part II, and throughout the course to propose your own research
study
The overall purpose of this research proposal is to summarize a research topic that interests you and to propose new research based
off your summary. You will be required to write a manuscript-style paper in APA format (i.e., your paper will be formatted similarly
to the journal articles that you read). It will have a title page, abstract, introduction, methods, expected results, and references section.
You have submitted the first two parts of this proposal, but remember it is considered one paper. This means that you can use your
work that you submitted in Research Proposal Part I and Parts II for Part III (after incorporating my comments of course!)
Instructions: The brunt of Part III is to propose original research based on the knowledge you gained throughout this
course. You can do this by completing a Method Section (just like what you see in the empirical scholarly articles that you
read for this project). Your method section should include the following subsections:
• Participants – describe the participants in your study. This includes describing how many you wish to have,
where you plan to get them.
• Materials – describe the measures or equipment that you plan to use in your study. Are you using questionnaires?
Are you analyzing government data (e.g., poverty rates in a city?) Get creative!
• Design – describe the type of study you choose to do. It must be one of the following: experiment or quasi
experiment this includes between-subjects or within-subjects designs), survey, qualitative study (e.g., content
analysis). Here, you will explain the IVs and DVs and any control variables.
• Procedure – describe the step-by-step procedure on how to plan to gather your data. This subsection should be
concise.
Aside from the Method section, you will need to follow these tasks to complete Part III.
Tasks:
1. Revise your introduction based on my comments on Research Proposal Part II.
2. Compose a Method section (see above).
3. Write a brief Expected Results section, explaining what results you expect to get from your research design.
4. Revise your references section based on my comments on Research Proposal Part II.
5. Write your 200 word abstract summarizing your entire project.
6. Submit one document (which includes a title page, abstract, introduction, method, expected results, and
references) to Canvas