Assignment: Designing Research
In this section, you will now consider a research study you would be interested in conducting. Considering all of material from this course, answer the following prompts that would be in your introduction and methods section.
Introduction
• Topic: Briefly describe your topic of interest and why it is important. Importance should be related to previous research in the field and need to assess the intervention.
• Literature Review: Locate an article related to your topic of interest. Indicate how it is related to your topic of interest.
• Research Question: Create a research question based on the topic. Remember to include all of the components of a good research question.
• Independent Variable: Identify the intervention or treatment package.
• Dependent Variable: Identify the target behavior(s).
Method
• Participant(s): Describe the population and justify why they were selected for your study.
• Measurement Procedure: Identify how you will capture the dependent variable and include whether the measurement you selected is continuous or discontinuous.
• Design: Select one single-case design and justify the reason for selection.
• Measurement Integrity: Based on your measurement procedure and design, indicate which IOA procedure you will use.
• Procedural Integrity: Describe how you will account for treatment integrity.
• Maintenance and Generalization: Describe considerations for maintenance and generalization.
• Social Validity: Defend how your study has social validity.
• Ethical Considerations: Identify any ethical considerations in your research, such as consent, assent, conflicts of interest, etc.
• General: Indicate where your visual display of data be located in a scientific paper.
• General: Indicate where you would place the implications of your results in a scientific paper?
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the assignment, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.