Updated 11/22/2015
| FSC: Research Techniques – PCM 315 002 – CRN: 93698 | |||
| Fall 2015 • Tues/Thurs 10:50am – 12:05pm – Gleason 327 | |||
| RESEARCH GROUPS | |||
| Last | First | Topic | |
| 1 | Bolosan | Ron | Does technology play a role in education decisions, curriculum, and outcomes? |
| Fitzgerald | Elijah | ||
| Palacios | Nickole | ||
| 2 | Cimino | Gab | Scientific: Are there health benefits to red wine? Survey: Do people perceive that there are health benefits to red wine? |
| McIntyre | Mary | ||
| Sperandeo | Mark | ||
| Votta | Gina | ||
| 3 | Hammell | Elise | Does television advertising impact people’s buying decisions? |
| Jones | Carolyn | ||
| Mathison | Mel | ||
| Rivadeneyra | Sara | ||
| 4 | Gibaldi | Adrianna | Students: Does your social media profile(s) communicate a positive or negative image for a potential employer? HR Professional(s): Will rank same profiles of above participants. |
| Gorman | Alyssa | ||
| Sabatella | Michele | ||
| Matarese | Jessica | ||
| 5 | Abruzzese | Matthew | Do people feel that presidents accomplish or fulfill the agenda — during their term(s) of office — that they promised during their candidacy. |
| Jordan | Jamal | ||
| Naula | Francesca | ||
| Rankin | Kayla | ||
Project Format
We will be using the report style on the left panel below titled “Scholarly Report.” This is from your textbook, Chapter 14, page 260. Each group will develop a presentation that addresses each point in this format. I have revised the report sections slightly to better fit this class project. See scroll down and review the format I delineate below.
FORMAT OF GROUP RESEARCH PROJECT REPORT
This is the format for your report. Each group will submit a written (typed) report using the format below. This format supersedes anything previously provided:
1. Title Page
2. Participants Page: List of each group member with a brief summary of the responsibilities of each member.
3. Abstract: An executive summary of the project that summarizes the goal(s), the method(s), and the outcome(s) of your research project.
4. Introduction:
- Goals and Significance of Research: Include the reason why you chose this topic.
- Literature Review: What existing materials/sources did you find. Describe the materials and explain if they were of value to you. (See Chapter 4)
- Research Questions: What questions did you use in your research field work and how did you arrive at those questions? A copy of any surveys and a chart of the results should be in the Appendices section. (See Chapter 9)
- Hypothesis: What was your original supposition at the outset and how did it compare with the outcome? (See Chapter 2)
5. Method
- Participants or Media Sampling: In your field work, who did you choose to interview/poll and why? (See Chapter 8)
- Procedures Used: Discuss how you did your field work (ie. online polls, in-person interviews, telephone interviews, etc.)
- Measures Used: Discuss the type of questions you chose (open-ended, close ended) and if you chose questions with a “scale,” describe the type of scale you used and why (See pages 87-90 — most of you are using a “Likert” type of scale.)
6. Results: Describe the results of your field work (surveys) and, if appropriate, its relationship to what you initially found in your Literature Review. Include here the “Significance of Results” and your “Conclusions” rather than including those in the “Discussion” section below. (Chapter 12, 13)
7. Discussion
- Significance of Results: As noted, this should appear in the section above.
- Limitations and Flaws of Study: You should answer the question, “If we had this to do over again, what would we do differently?” or “If we had more time and/or resources, how could we have improved this research project?”
- Conclusions: As noted, this should appear in the section above.
- Recommendations for Future Research: You should answer the question, “If we were to do a follow-up research project to find out more about out topic, what area(s) would we explore?
8. References: Include the sources noted above in “Literature Review” as well as any other material that you used in the creation and development of this project. You can use any other the top three bibliographic styles noted in your text (See pages 68-72) APA, MLA, and Chicago. A very easy and user-friendly tool to generate an MLA bibliography can be found at http://www.easybib.com.
9. Appendices: Include any appropriate attachments such as a sample copy of the survey(s), spreadsheet with the raw data that was collected, and any other supplemental materials relevant to the project. Please include a copy of your PowerPoint presentation in this section. (You can print it in black & white and with multiple slides on a single sheet.)
In-Class Presentation
Each group will do a presentation to the entire class. The goal is to do all five on December 8 and December 10. If additional time is needed, we will use all or part of Tuesday, December 15, 10:50am-1:30pm.
Presentations should last 20-30 minutes and include a on-screen component (ie. PowerPoint or Prezi) plus a class engagement component.
All group members must participate in presentation. Each group member should have a distinct role as outlined in #2 above.
When delivering the presentation, students may work off of their own notes/index cards, or use the report itself.
Deliverables
- A written report that includes all nine (9) points above. You must bring an extra complete copy to give to the instructor right before your presentation.
- A PowerPoint/Prezi presentation (print out for instructor along with all items noted above).