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Assignment 4 (Group assignment)
Research Project Part 2: Survey design, administration, and analysis
Overview
Select one team member’s hypothesis from Assignment 3 for the Assignment 4 group project. You will design and implement a survey to test the selected hypothesis and analyze and interpret the results. The written project that you turn in will include the agreed-upon hypothesis, survey design, a summary of the results, a discussion of the limitations of the study, ways to improve the study if replicated, and tentative conclusions. THE hypothesis CHOSEN IS : Being actively involved in media, IV, is linked to life satisfaction and lower productivity, DVs. Active engagement involves interacting on media like posting, commenting, and messaging rather than just scrolling through content passively
Part I – Designing the survey:
Design a mixed methods survey with the goal of obtaining high-quality information that will test your hypothesis. Draw on the methods discussed in the readings from class to ensure that you can elicit enough information without making your survey too long. Each student in the group should develop five questions. Include both qualitative and quantitative questions that complement each other. After pre-testing you will refine the questions and choose the best ten for your survey (see below), but keep a record of your initial questions and who contributed them. You are encouraged to use a few published survey questions, but make sure to justify their use, and cite them appropriately.
Identify an appropriate target population to survey to test this hypothesis. You should also consider underlying constraints (e.g., survey length, access to specific target populations, classmates cannot be your study subjects) to ensure that your hypothesis is feasible for this assignment.
Part II – Administering the survey:
As your readings explain, part of good survey design is “field testing” the survey to make sure that it is clear and understandable to your target population. For this assignment instead of a full scale field testing, pre-survey 3-4 people per group using the questions each group member developed in Part II. Each person that agrees to be surveyed must indicate so according to this Informed Consent Form. You may wish to use Google forms to administer your survey. Here is a primer on how to use and administer surveys with Google forms.
Reflect on the initial pre-test results of your survey. Consider whether people were able to answer all the questions, and whether the questions were clearly interpreted by subjects to provide accurate data. Make any necessary modifications to your survey, such as revising your questions. Make sure to cut down the number of questions (10 questions).
Now, survey a broader sample of your target population (your group should together survey at least 30 new people, more if desired). This should not be in-person. You can use your social networks to find willing participants, but remember you should aim for a sample that is representative of your target population. Please use the same “Informed consent form” to obtain consent from each participant. Your participants should not include your group members.
Part III – Data analysis: Once you have collected the data from your survey (not the pre-test), you will need to analyze them using basic summary statistics and data visualization methods. Make sure that your data analysis does not include any personal identifying information.
Part IV – Final Project Write-up: Create a 1500 word (maximum) document. Organize your final paper into the following sections:
Introduction (approx. 250)
Background and summary of your topic, hypothesis and its justification (approx. 250 words)
Methods (approx. 400 words)
Study design
Target population and sampling method
Survey design, including relevant variables, changes made to survey based on pre-test.
Results (approx. 500 words)
Narrative description of key results
2-3 Figures and/or tables with captions
**You need to present the results in the form of narrative (e.g. descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, number of respondents, gender percentage, etc) for quantitative questions. You will need to also summarize the qualitative question results (e.g. what categories emerged, summary of qualitative answers etc.). And finally, you will need to present visualizations of the results that are relevant to your data (e.g. scatter plot, bar graphs or similar). The association between x (independent variable) and y (dependent variable) needs to be clear. All best practices in reporting the visualizations and tables discussed earlier in this course need to be communicated.**2-3 Figures
4.Discussion (approx. 350 words)
1. which results do, and do not support your hypothesis
2. tentative conclusions from the results,
3. Limitations of the study
4. Ways to improve the study if replicated
5. Include a blank copy of the final survey questions (the survey will not count as part of your word count).
5.Addendum recording team contributions
1. Description of all group members’ proposed hypotheses and explanation of why you chose the hypothesis you did (approx. 150 words). Put initials by your contribution.
2. Description of your division of labor (approx. 150 words).
3. List of 15 proposed questions for the survey (no word count). Put initials by your contribution.
4. If a student does not contribute enough to the assignment, they may receive lower scores.
NOTES: Submit these components as a single PDF.
