In 10-12 slides, including the title and reference slides, outline your research proposal to present to your classmates. Speaker notes are required to provide additional information for your bullet points.
Research Proposal Topic: Mental Health
The PowerPoint will need to include:
- Introductory section: including your problem statement and your hypothesis.
- Method section: including your description of the participants, apparatus/materials/instruments, procedure, and design you anticipate using.
- Results: discuss how results would be gathered for which statistic was used, the alpha level (.05), critical value, and degrees of freedom. (Do not create fake results.)
- Discussion: requires 4 paragraphs that include:
- Describe what it would mean if you obtained significant results. Then describe what it would mean to obtain nonsignificant results.
- Discuss how your study followed APA ethical guidelines, by discussing the use of an informed consent form, debriefing statement, deception, and obtaining IRB permission.
- Discuss any limitations in your study (e.g., possible confounding, lack of random assignment or random sampling, etc.)
- Conclude with a discussion of future studies that could arise from your study.
- Appendices: two figures, OR two tables, OR a table and a figure. For example, set up a table focusing on participants, include your individually created survey, use/cite tables from a previous study, refer to Chapter 14 summary table, include Informed Consent figure and/or Debriefing Form figure. If unsure, contact your instructor for confirmation of appendices.
- Reference Slide: APA-formatted reference slide.
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