write chapter 2 and 3 of the research topic. Attached details of chapter 2 and 3. Here is already completed introduction of research paper. Research Problem and Setting (150–200 words) Sub-Saha
| CHAPTER 3 | ||
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| Introduction | ||
| Restate the study purpose as described in chapter 1. | ||
| Preview major sections of the chapter. | ||
| Research Design and Rationale | ||
| Concisely state the study variables (independent, dependent, covariate, mediating, and/or moderating variables, as appropriate. | ||
| Identify the research design and its connection to the research questions. | ||
| Explain any time and resource constraints consistent with the design choice. | ||
| Describe how design choice is consistent with research designs needed to advance knowledge in the discipline. | ||
| If conducting an intervention study, defend the choice of intervention. | ||
| Methodology (needs to be described in sufficient depth so that other researchers can replicate the study) | ||
| Population | ||
| Define the target population. | ||
| State target population size (if known) or approximate/estimated size. | ||
| Sampling and Sampling Procedures | ||
| Identify and justify the type of sampling strategy. | ||
| Explain specific procedures for how the sample will be drawn. | ||
| Describe the sampling frame (inclusion and exclusion criteria). | ||
| Use a power analysis to determine sample size and include: | ||
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| Procedures For Recruitment, Participation, and Data Collection (for students collecting their own data) | ||
| Thoroughly describe recruiting procedures and particular demographic information that will be collected. | ||
| Describe how participants will be provided informed consent. | ||
| Describe how data are collected. | ||
| Explain how participants exit the study (for example, debriefing procedures, etc.). | ||
| Describe any follow-up procedures (such as requirements to return for follow-up interviews, treatments, etc.). | ||
| Additional Information if Conducting a Pilot Study: | ||
| Describe the relationship of the pilot study to the main study (for example, what is the purpose of the pilot study?). | ||
| Additional Information if Conducting an Intervention | ||
| Describe clearly and thoroughly the nature of the treatment, intervention, or experimental manipulation, how it will be designed and administered, and by whom and to whom it will be administered. | ||
| For Students Using Archival Data | ||
| Include all procedures for recruitment, participation, and data collection associated with the main study. | ||
| Describe the procedure for gaining access to the data set. | ||
| Describe necessary permissions to gain access to the data (with permission letters located in an appendix). | ||
| If historical or legal documents are used as sources of data, demonstrate the reputability of the sources and justify why they represent the best sources of data. |
| Instrumentation and Operationalization of Constructs | ||
| For published instruments provide: | ||
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| For all researcher instruments provide: | ||
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| For intervention studies or those involving manipulation of an independent variable: | ||
| Identify materials/programs applied as treatment or manipulation. | ||
| Provide information on the developer of the materials and/or programs. | ||
| If published, state where, how, and with which populations the instrument was previously used. | ||
| If researcher-developed materials, state the basis for development and how the materials were developed. | ||
| Provide evidence that another agency will sponsor intervention studies (such as clinical interventions). | ||
| Operationalization For each variable describe: | ||
| Its operational definition. | ||
| How each variable is measured or manipulated. | ||
| How the variable/scale score is calculated, what the scores represent, and an example item. | ||
| Data Analysis Plan | ||
| Identify software used for analyses. | ||
| Provide explanation of data cleaning and screening procedures as appropriate to the study. | ||
| Restate the research questions and hypotheses here as written in chapter 1. | ||
| Describe in detail the analysis plan including the elements below including: | ||
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| Threats to Validity | ||
| Describe threats to external validity (for example, testing reactivity, interaction effects of selection and experimental variables, specificity of variables, reactive effects of experimental arrangements, and multiple-treatment interference, as appropriate to the study) and how they will be and/or were addressed. | ||
| Describe threats to internal validity (for example, history, maturation, testing, instrumentation, statistical regression, experimental mortality, and selection-maturation interaction, as appropriate to the study) and how they will be and/or were addressed. | ||
| Describe any threats to construct or statistical conclusion validity. | ||
| Ethical Procedures | ||
| Agreements to gain access to participants or data (include actual documents in the IRB application). | ||
| Describe the treatment of human participants including the following (include actual documents in the Institutional Review Board [IRB] application): | ||
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| Describe treatment of data (including archival data), including issues of: | ||
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| Other ethical issues as applicable (these issues could include doing a study within one’s own work environment, conflict of interest or power differentials, and justification for use of incentives). | ||
| Summary | ||
| Summary of design and methodology of the method of inquiry. | ||
| Transition to chapter 4. | ||