Project: Final Project

By Week 10, you should have begun your work on the Final Project in earnest. Refer to the Final Project Guidelines and Final Project Template documents in the Learning Resources, as well as the Final Project assignment in Week 10, for more information.
By Day 5

Submit your Final Project.
Submission and Grading Information

To submit your completed Project for review and grading, do the following:

    Please save your Project using the naming convention “WK11Proj+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
    Click the Week 11 Final Project Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Project.
    Click the Week 11 Project link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.
    Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK11Proj+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open.
    If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
    Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.

Final Project Guidelines 2

 

 

Project Rationale

The culmination of material covered in RSCH 8210:

Quantitative Reasoning and

Analysis

and

RSCH 8260:

Advanced Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis

will provide

you with a number of tools

for

your statistical toolbox. An enthusiastic apprentice always

looks forward to

the day

where

the skills learned can be put into action,

to display a

product to the world that demonstrates they are

now an artisan.

The purpose of the Final Project in this c

ourse is much like a Final Project

an

apprenticing craftsperson might undertake. This project will utilize the amalgam of your

quantitative skills

to demonstrate

that

you can:

1. Align an appropriate statistical test to a research question you constructed.
2. Find data that meets the assumptions of your statistical tests and answers your

research question.

3. Synthesize the results to articulately present the findings via an oral presentation.
4. Present the results in a formal, written document

.

5. Document how quanti

tative methods can assist with social change.

Expectations

Data

You are free to use data that you obtain on your own or utilize one of the datasets

from

the course

but

, to make the project more meaningful to you, it is highly recommend

ed

that you find your own data. If you use one of the datasets from the course, please

make sure that you are not mimicking a project already posted in one of the weekly

Collaboration

Labs. You can find existing data through a number of clearinghouses on

the

web (i.e.

, NIH, ICPSR, NIJ, NCES, www.data.gov

, etc.). If you are having difficulty

obtaining data, please be sure and contact your Instructor

for some suggestions. You

may also want to consider data from your workplace but be sure you have permission to

use it for learning purposes.

Deliverables

You have three

deliverables for this project. The first is an oral 5-

to 7-minute

presentation that you post to the Week 11 Discussion Board. You can create a video

directly in Blackboard using Kaltura;

information

to help you complete this task is

available via the

Kaltura Media Uploader

link on the course navigation menu.

Your

video should be targeted toward a lay statistical audience. That is, consider giving a

presentation of your results to your co-

workers/team

, a group who

might not have the

level of statistical knowledge you now hold. All too often,

the results of great projects are

not im

plemented because the researcher did not translate the results

and communicate

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the findings to the research consumer

.

For the second deliverable, please respond to at least

one

peer’s video presentation,

providing constructive comments on the strengths o

f the

Final Project, as well as

identifying ways to improve

. Remember, your goal will be to provide constructive and

helpful feedback, so please be polite.

In your feedback, for example, you may indicate

that some aspects of your peer’s presentation could be clearer. You might provide

suggestions

that could clarify

the

interpretation of

their findings. In any case, remember

that

the purpose is to

provide and

obtain constructive and helpful feedback, so please

be supportive and polite.

The

third

deliverable is a 7

– to 10

-page

written product that details your approach,

results, and interpretation of findings.

This should be a formal, scholarly paper, one that

adheres to the APA guidelines.

In this document,

be

sure

that

you:

1. Present your research question clearly.
2. Explain why you selected your dataset and the statistical test you applied to that

dataset.

3. Detail whether your test has statistical power or not.
4. Use one of the statistical tests covered in this course.
5. Visually display your results

.

6. Detail how your findings might impact social change.
7. Ensur

e that your Final Project is 7

–10 pages in length, in APA format

.

While you are required to use one of the statistical tests covered in this course, you

should feel free to appropriately augment with tests you learned in RSCH 8210. For

example, you may use a correlation matrix to test for multicollinearity in a regression

model.

Suggested

Milestones

Week 3: Topic of interest should be identified. Start searching for data.

Week 6: Research question and dataset should be clearly identified.

Week 10: Final analysis should be completed.

Week 11: Finalize written draft and

post oral presentatio