When you have arrived at a design you’re happy with, type up the final draft in a word
doc and submit.
The doc should include all steps of the the Phase 3 and Phase 4 guide forms
Each step should have its own heading. Relevant information for each step of your study design should fall beneath the associated heading.
It is okay to use bullet points under your headings, but the entries must be clear and fully articulated.
All facts asserted must be from PSL and must be properly cited (list full references at the end of the document).
Literature reviews are not appropriate citations. You must find and cite the PSL that generated the finding.
*PSL not only informs your topic knowledge and chosen line of inquiry, but it is also offers
great ideas for how experiments are designed and carried out by researchers within your
topic’s associated discipline. You don’t always have to design an experiment from scratch.
If a paper uses a study design that is perfect for testing your hypothesis, then by all means
use it. No need to completely reinvent the wheel. Just be very careful not to blindly copy a
design without considering what aspects need to be tweaked or augmented to suit your
purposes. Alternatively, you might find ideas for different parts of your design in different
papers. That is very common. Pay attention to what metrics are used for different variables.
Ask yourself why they chose certain sample sizes, populations, or metrics. What data were
collected? How frequently? What analyses were performed? What questions were they
trying to answer. How were results evaluated? Ask yourself if the idea you want to replicate
is reasonable to apply to your study.
I have attachted phases 1 and 2 as a reminder of the topic and of what has been completed already. I have also attached phases 3 and 4 which is what needs to get completed.
Thank you!
