The revised research plan is where you will describe how
you will occupy the niche you identified in the literature review. Spend
some time reviewing how the literature review sections transition into
methodology sections of the student research papers we have read this
term, and then decide on a method most appropriate for your topic. We
will talk extensively about the methods section of your paper in class
over the next few meetings.
The Task: Write a planning document that outlines the following:
1) Your research question: Write a paragraph describing your question
and how you arrived at that question. Remember, your question may have
changed since you first started your project. Use sources from your
literature review to describe your niche.
2) The data you plan to collect to answer the question--ie, who you plan to study.
3) How you will go about doing that research. Be as specific as possible
about the number of research subjects, how the research subjects will
be chosen, and what you will do (interview, survey, observation, focus
group, textual analysis, and so on).
My research question is to what extent have performance enhancing drugs benefited Major League Baseball? When I first started doing my research I started with the question to what extent have performance enhancing drugs effected Major League Baseball, post steroid era? I decided that the question was too broad and I decided to change it to whether PEDs have benefited or hurt Major League Baseball. I didn’t really like that question either so I decided to just focus on one side of the question, and that is whether PEDs have benefited the MLB. I think that this question is very different because usually people just look at how PEDs have hurt the game, no one really looks at the benefits that PEDs could have caused. PEDs could have had a major effect on game attendance, popularity in Major League Baseball and increased offensive production.
ReplyDeleteI plan to use a quantitative research method. I want to look at the game attendance, the TV ratings of the games, players batting averages, etc. all during the “steroid era.” I am not exactly sure how I am going to go about doing this but I know I am going to need a focus group. The research can be split up into three groups, the first group would be pre steroid era, the second group would be the steroid era, and the last group would be post steroid era. From there I can look at all the different numbers in each group, such as game attendance, TV popularity, batting averages, homeruns, etc. The pre and post steroid era would be the “control groups” and the focus group would be the steroid era. I would be looking for a change in the steroid era group.
Chad Simmons
ReplyDeleteRevised Research Plan
3/04/16
My original research question was how has new insight and discoveries about concussions and other brain injuries altered societies views on football, and what measures is our society taking to reduce, prevent, and treat these concerns? Now that I have gotten much more in depth with my research, I can see my inquiry based question and research in general shifting. I have strayed away from the first part of my original question about what people’s views towards football are. The second half of my original inquiry based question, however, is more along the lines of what I have been researching. I have started to become more interested with two key concepts; the first being how football can lead to CTE, and the second being how concussions are being mismanaged in American football.
While I am not certain of my intended research methods yet, I believe I have an idea of some strategies I could try. I could interview former players who have sustained concussions. I could see how the brain injuries have affected them in the long run. I could also gather evidence on how their particular situation was managed when they sustained the concussion. I would try and gather as many participants as possible from a wide range of age groups to get multiple perspectives.
Another potential idea I had was to get a survey from either football coaches, or parents of children who play football, or both to see how they feel about the current concussion crisis. This is just a potential idea, but it could offer a different perspective as well as ad a different dynamic to my research.
My initial research question was: How has media aimed at children influenced a child's idea of what their gender role should be in society, and to what extent do children feel the need to fulfill these stereotypes and roles? After reading different scholarly articles, I decided to narrow my research down specifically on the effects of media produced by The Walt Disney Company, particularly their line of princess films on children’s development of sex roles and gender identity. A lot of the articles I have been coming across focus primarily on how the negative stereotypes portrayed by the characters in these films impact a child’s view of their self image. This is when I decided that I wanted to take a look at what the consequences of these films were on childrens gender identity.
ReplyDeleteFor my study I plan on gathering quantitative information about the types of behaviors portrayed by the princesses and princes of the 12 Disney princess films. I will conduct a coded content analysis on each of these movies in order to understand what type of behavioral and personality traits characters of certain genders posses. I’m also hoping to be able to conduct surveys on children (a classroom sized amount) who have previously been exposed to these movies in order to understand the effects of the films on their gender identity.
Females in comic books have been a reflection of how men have viewed women in society since men started drawing them. Mitra C. Emad wrote a paper on the history of Wonder Woman and how she has been shaped by the external influences of society; a hero during the war efforts in the 1940’s, a mainly domestic women in the 1950’s, a menace during the feminist movement of the 1970’s, etc. Comic books have been made for mainly a male audience, this is easy to see when we look at the sexual way women are drawn today with skimpy outfits in positions drawn for male fantasy. Caryn Neumann and Lori Parks say they do not accurately serve to show how real women are, arguing that even though superheroines look feminine by their physical features they do not actually act as females, despite their feminine outfits and their ostensibly feminist values, female characters act more like men than women. Men are dominant in the comic book industry, both as creators and consumers; however women and girls are starting to pick-up comic books more over the last few years. They have started to raise questions as to whether or not female characters in comic books are portrayed as accurate representations of real women.
ReplyDeleteThe articles I have read on the subject have all conducted studies through textual analysis, from what I have seen none of them have studied whether or not real females view comic book females as embodiments of true women. For my study I will take pictures of real women replicating poses of women in comic book covers, followed by an interview. In this interview I will ask questions such as, “Was this a pose that made you feel powerful or uncomfortable?”, “From this picture, do you think this accurately represents women in comic books” and “In general, do you feel like women in comic books accurately represent women?”. I would like to photograph around 10-20 women, the subjects will be college students so their ages will range around 19 to 24 years old. From this research I hope to provide a different angle in which to show how women are misrepresented, and objectified in comics.
My question has not changed very much from my original question I came up with at the beginning of my research. Although I did make strides in identifying and tweaking the question to where it has maximized the potential of my research and has allowed to gain the most information possible. My question is, “Why is it that head coaches’ longevity in the NFL and college football been so alarming and what effects does it have on the players”? Didn’t realize that coaches getting fired or leaving can have a profound impact on their players. This has extended my question and research providing me with a new avenue to explore. I plan to study data on coaching turnover over the last 20 years and see what has happened over that time period. Also I plan to study data that involves the impact a coaches’ absence has on team performance and the impact it has on the players. I will evaluate past experiments that answer this question and find 3-5 former and current head coaches at both levels that I can interview or have been interviewed on the matter at hand. The best way to gain information on my research is to personally research my subjects, but that may be tricky due to their busy schedules and celebrity statuses.
ReplyDeleteMy original research question was: what are some of the effects of working part-time while enrolled full time in school? After doing research on this topic i have found that there is ample amounts of research and experiments/surveys already done on this topic. this topic has been analyzed also in many different regards such as the physical and mental effects, the effects on different racial/social groups, the effects based on amount of hours worked and/or amount of hours in school. Through this research ive found that there are many factors that can affect the effects students have. So I have revised my research question to: Of the effects placed on students through balancing school and part-time work, which are more inevitable and/or more likely to occur among most students? In order to collect research for this i plan on first of using a plethora of sources all of which will be siphoned for for the most credible information on the effects. Once i have some assured effects i will survey a random sample of college students here and also from FSU. The sample will hopefully be huge, but i will not know how many until i finish collecting data. I plan on placing the survey around campus where it may usually be heavily populated (ex. student union) so that students who are interested may take it, it should only be 10-20 questions and the paper i will actually hang around campus will read something like: Survey for students who are part-time workers. And ill have them text me a pic of their answers or maybe email or which ever way they want of the options given. The survey will ask about how likely they are to be affected by certain already assessed effects of this balance (Ex. Lack of time for study, Sleepiness, falling grades). Then based of the results i will see which had higher averages and are truly prominent.
ReplyDeleteMy initial question for my research paper was “why are first-generation students such an important investment for America?” After meeting with my professor, we both came to a conclusion that the research could be a bit to broad, which could result in bias and inaccurate information. After brainstorming on ways I could narrow my search, I finally thought of a question that could be easily tested with the available resources around me, ultimately leading me on the question “what are barriers that first-generation students encounter, compared to their counterparts”. The purpose of this study is to understand more comprehensively the challenges many first-generation students face during their college career. Going to a school with approximately 60,000 students, being able to gather information is much easier then those that go to a school with minor population. My initial plan is to gather a group of people who are willing to answer questions that involve personal questions. With a face-to-face interview, I can ask more deep involved questions but if people don’t have the time, a survey could gather the same kind of results.
ReplyDeleteMy research question originally was “how does framing a question changes response?” My modified version of research question after studying my sources is “how does wording a question differently or providing misinformation changes the memory when asked to recall”. I came up with the original question is, one day I was just researching on eye witness testimony and I read Loftus and Palmer’s 1974 study, which later increased my curiosity to further study this topic and field of study. I came up with the modified version after analyzing my sources and realizing that not wording changes a question but there are reasons which effects wording itself like stereotype and cultural schemas etc. In order for me to go to my research in depth I thought it was be a good idea to look it from a broader point of view than just narrowing it down to one factor.
ReplyDeleteI do plan on studying university of central florida students who has never take any psychology course, thus focusing on non-psychology major students. There is a greater chance of someone with psychology major to hear of this study before than any other major and which will skew my data collected. The way I plan on choosing who is not a psychology major is by just going to a major 3000 level engineering course and ask them to volunteer for a survey. It is going to be a random sampling so the number of participants cannot be predicted. I would like for them to go online their phone or computer to watch a video and answer questions given after the video on the survey website.
I have been interested in the nature vs nurture debate ever since I learned about it for the first time as a sophomore in high school. I knew this would be a good area for me to research because it is something that I care about. I started out with the question "Does nature or nurture have a bigger influence on intelligence?" Seeing as this question would require an extensive period of time to resolve, I knew I needed to make it more narrow. After reading into some scholarly articles on the subject, I decided to focus on the question, "Why is nature vs nurture still being researched today?"
ReplyDeleteIt has come to my attention that some people believe that this concept should be "retired" because it cannot be answered simply. The truth, however, is that we have a lot to learn from nature vs nurture research. The nature vs nurture debate will most likely never be solved, but calling it by this name really catches the attention of the average reader. Some people read into the topic briefly and decide that it cant be answered, so there is no point. I believe, instead, that people need to focus on the lessons that are demonstrated through researching nature and nurture.
I know that the average American has a lot to learn from this topic. My "gap" is the deficit of knowledge regarding nature vs nurture among the general population. I intend to use a short survey on a large, random sample of the population. The survey will include difficult, yet important, questions about nature and nurture. I believe that this will prove that the aforementioned deficit of knowledge does, in fact, exist.
My question was to what extent has motivation played a key factor in determining someone's success. I arrived at this question through reading and analyzing the determinants of what made people become successful through their use of motivation. I plan to study students of different races, gender, and majors to get an understanding of the diversity that comes with motivation and how each individual sees it differently. I would conduct surveys to any person regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation and ask question on what motivation means to them and how they have used such motivation to get to where they currently are in their lives. I would also ask them what success means to them and if they believe they are successful, whether it is current or what they will believe in the future. While the definitions may very well be varied and more than likely relative to the individual, it will still assist me on personal means for gathering information and it would be possible to set up a data representation of some sort, relating to a focus group to conduct social experiments.
ReplyDeleteMy original research question was, To what extent is the Deaf community being acknowledged, in terms of jobs and socially, throughout other communities? But after doing more research on the topic, I redefined the question and made it more precise to, To what extent does the Deaf community face regarding jobs and social standing in non-deaf communities? I arrived at that question because with a more in depth look at the subject, it can add a more in depth look at the subject. Not only does it show a more in depth look, but also it can add more detail as to the challenges faced socially and in a work environment. The data that I plan to collect is quantitative, based on the research method that I plan to use which is a textual analysis. For the textual analysis I plan on analyzing sources such as, news, media, television shows, popular sources. With these sources they help to create a discourse community about this topic. Analyzing this for my research will give more meaning to the interaction between both the hearing and deaf worlds.
ReplyDeleteMy original research question asked :"How have cosmetic companies improved their ethics and testing methods in order to prevent harming of animal test subjects as they have done in the past?" As I did some research, I discovered that animal testing goes beyond just cosmetics. Animal testing is conducted in a number of industries. So, I decided to revise my research question: "How have industries that practice animal testing improved their ethics and testing methods in order to prevent harming animal test subjects as they have done in the past?" I was having a difficult time coming up with a niche for a while, considering animal testing is a widely researched topic. Finally, I said to myself, "We know that many people are against using animals as test subjects in laboratories. But is a human's love for animals enough to eventually overcome science's use for animals?"
ReplyDeleteAd for the data I plan to collect, I will be gathering a group of 4 or 5 people. I will then individually show them 3 different animal rights campaigns. After viewing them, they will be asked which of the following campaigns effected you the most and why. This research will help me understand what the most effective way to get others on board with banning animal testing for good might be.