1. Research Plan (Methods Part I)
Write up a research plan for your study. Mertler (2006) provides a sample research plan on page 83.
You research plan should include the following elements:
1） Methods of data collection
In your report, right now you don’t have to specify your specific research method. You can just clarify whether your study will be qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods.
2） Sample, population, and participants
Describe the way your participants will be selected or recruited.
3） Treatments/ The action
A treatment can be a simple intervention (e.g., a one-time surgical technique) or to a complex program (e.g., an employment training program). As with observations, you can use subscripts to distinguish different program variations. In action research, the treatments will be the action.
Add your research plan to the report document under the heading “Methods”. You can either delete the bullet points under the heading or use them as level-2 headings.
2. Schedule sheet
Use the figure 4.3 on page 82 in Mertler (2006) as the template to develop your schedule sheet and add it to the end of your report document as Appendix A: Research Planning Schedule Sheet.
Submission Guideline: The research plan and research schedule should be added to the report document you started creating earlier. When you save the file at this point name it “Your PID_AR_researchplan” and upload it to the assignment page..