Research

Research Design Table

Demographic Variable

Name of variable:

Participant age.

Levels of variable you will use:

20-50

Scale

of Measurement (nominal, ordinal, or scale):

Appropriate measure of central tendency and (if appropriate) variability:

Mean

Variable of Interest #1

Name of variable and/or scale selected (including citation):

Religious Reflections Scale

How many questions? What are the answer options – e.g., Likert 1 – 5?):

Survey enables this study to predict specific categories. The use of a Likert Scale will facilitate the necessary categories in this process. Six questions will be provided with a scale from 1-10.

How is this variable quantified? What is the potential numerical range and how is it interpreted? (i.e. how do you calculate the variable as a single numerical value to be used in SPSS for data analysis) Notes: if it is only one question, the answer will be similar to what you have as the previous answer; if scale is nominal, numbers are meaningless but necessary for SPSS so you won’t discuss the numbers in your paper but will state them here.

In each of the six questions the score for all of the questions will be averaged together to present a specific number using SPSS.

What is its scale of measurement?

The scores will range from 0 (not spiritual) to 10 (extremely spiritual).

Variable of Interest #2

Name of variable and/or scale selected (including citation if appropriate):

Conscious Reflections

How many questions? What are the answer options – e.g., Likert 1 – 5?:

Quantitative

In eleven of the questions, a numerical score for each question will be tallied then averaged to provide a specific numerical value using SPSS.

Scores will be between 1and 5.

The scale of measurement will be interval.

Research Design

Correlational, quasi-experimental, or experimental (since you have 2 variables it will NOT be descriptive):

Predictive.

Justification:

Personal spirituality will effect each person’s life based on surroundings, the media, and society.

Research / Alternate Hypothesis (note this is NOT the null hypothesis). **It is common practice in the field to explicitly state the research hypothesis in the paper but statistically test the null hypothesis.

Information will be collected based on each person’s inner reflections of thoughts and feelings.

Proposed Target Population (e.g., “friends” on facebook; only women, colleagues at a specific type of business – note you will need 20 participants from this target population, and you cannot use people you do not know due to the educational nature of this study and our IRB exempt status constraints – read the M2 Research Data Collection Instructions for further clarification):

Facebook; Friends.

Proposed survey distribution method (e.g., email, facebook, hand out paper surveys at your church, et cet – note you cannot distribute these in public places due to the exempt status of this educational assignment – read the M2 Research Data Collection Instructions for further clarification):

Facebook.

At the end of this document (starting on the next page), create a proposed survey making sure to include the following components:

· Disclaimer

· Directions to the participant on how to answer the questions (may need directions for each subsection)

· Question(s) related to the Demographic Variable

· Question(s) related to Variable 1

· Question(s) related to Variable 2