Data Collection Approach Approval Assignment Instructions
Overview
This assignment is linked to the development of your capstone project.
Instructions
The candidate will submit a document listing and briefly describing the three data collection approaches planned for their applied research report. These three approaches must be approved by the instructor before writing the Procedures section of the prospectus. There must be at least one qualitative and one quantitative approach included. No approach may be used more than once. The first approach must be an interview with a minimum of five participants. The second and third approaches must be drawn from the remaining five approaches described in the course textbook (focus groups, quantitative surveys, qualitative questionnaires, observations, or documents). The draft will be only 1 page and include the title of the assignment, the candidate’s name, the date, the central research question, and the three data collection approaches, along with 1-2 sentences briefly describing each approach. Spelling and grammar rules apply, but there is no need to conform to APA format. See the example below.
EDUC 880 3/20
Data Collection Approach Approval Assignment
Candidate Name
Date
Central research question of the applied research report goes here.
Approach 1: Semi-structured interviews
The first approach will be semi-structured interviews conducted with five participants. The participants will be teachers employed at the school.
Approach 2: Quantitative surveys
The second approach will be a quantitative survey using the Google Forms platform. The participants will be a minimum of 15 students selected from various grade levels.
Approach 3: Focus group
The third approach will be one focus group using open-ended questions. The participants will be five parents selected from among the families with students who attend the school.
