BSHS 435 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Research Proposal

Read“A 15-Step Model for Writing a Research Proposal” in this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings.

Submit a 2800- to 3500-word research proposal on a human-services-related topic of your choice. Include the following:

· Title page

· Abstract

· Introduction and literature review:

o Refer to the Learning Team assignments for Week Two: Research Problem and Literature Review.

o Make sure that this section address the following:

· Background information on the topic area

· Scope/rationale for the proposal or importance of the study

· Statement of the research question /hypothesis/research problem

· Methodology

o Participants or target population (age, gender, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and so on)

o Recruitment and informed consent process

o Sampling method and sample size

o Research design, including independent variable(s) and dependent variable(s)

o Instrumentation or data collection methods (including data collection time points, reliability and validity)

· Proposed data analyses

o Descriptive statistics

o Inferential statistics

o Predicted findings

· Timeline for the proposed study

· References

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines and include a title page and a reference page (No abstract is necessary).