CUNY Kingsborough College What is the Socio Economic Impact of Corona Virus HW Generate an abbreviated research proposal (COVID releated topic) (example:

CUNY Kingsborough College What is the Socio Economic Impact of Corona Virus HW Generate an abbreviated research proposal (COVID releated topic)

(example: How has businesses raised their price as a result due to covid)

. Be sure to include the following elements, each as a bold header breaking up your post.

Research Question: What is the research question/ What do we aim to learn from this research?Your research question should be stated in one of 3 formats:

Testing for Association: What is the relationship between X & Y?
Testing for Differences: Does Y differ among groups with different X?
Testing for Cause & Effect: What is the effect that X has on Y?
Careful – remember there are strict rules for testing cause & effect, and so you can only perform this kind of testing under specific circumstances.
Research Methods: What kinds of research methods will you employ? You should employ the methods most appropriate for your research topic.

If your topic is exploratory, then are there qualitative methods that are best suited for gaining nuanced understanding of an otherwise unclear phenomena? How would you gather that data?
If your topic is descriptive, or explanatory, how might you best be able to gather/identify data that can inform your understanding of the topic?
Measurement: Identify the specific variables that you will need to measure in order to address your research question. How will you operationally define, and measure the concepts that are central to the research? If specific validated scales will be used, which, and how are they deployed? Identify also any additional variables that you will need to take into account as control measures. (ex: I want to study the difference between education level & income, but need to also account for type of the major or specialty of one’s degree, one’s professional field, one’s age or years in profession, etc… I will need to be sure that I measure all of these things)
Sampling: How will participants be selected to be part of the sample?
Data Collection: How would you go about gathering data to execute this research? (This may be reiterating some of what is stated in research methods & sampling sections, depending on the methods that you’ve selected)
Analysis: What patterns will you be looking for when analyzing the data that you’ve collected? (this should relate directly to the research question). If specific scales are used, how are they scored?