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ATS2831 QUANTITATIVE SOCIAL RESEARCH
Assignment: Project
DUE DATE: Friday 4th May 2012
Victoria’s Traffic Accident Commission (TAC) have an annual research grants round of funding. They take submissions and choose projects they consider interesting, worthwhile and, most importantly, well designed. You are going to prepare a research project for submission.
You do not have to cost the project (you would if you were really going to make a submission of course). You will be graded in the same way that the TAC grants panel would consider your project. Developing the research project will allow you to apply a number of aspects covered by this unit.
The TAC provide for free an online crash statistics tool that includes a number of years of crash data for Victoria. The public can use that tool to discover all sorts of things about road crashes. They are quite proud of it and are much more likely to fund projects that have used the tool as far as possible. So start by tinkering with the tool and pose a research question that extends beyond what the tool can do.
For example, the tool will allow you to work out how many motorcycle crashes involving males occur during the day versus at night, but it won’t tell you what the causes of those crashes were. You could propose a project to survey crashed motorcycle riders to try to identify common crash factors. Get the idea? Now come up with your own project!
Step 1. Research question
Tinker with the TAC online crash statistics tool (the link is provided on Moodle). Come up with a research question. Remember, your question has to be based on statistics from the TAC tool. Enter your research question as no more than one sentence into the Moodle page by 5pm on 20th April, 2012. You will receive feedback on that question within one week of submission.
Note that Moodle will automatically stop taking submissions at 5pm on 20th April. If you have not submitted your question by that time you will get no feedback on it and your final assignment is likely to suffer.
Step 2. Write your assignment
Divide your assignment into two parts. Part A will be about the research question and Part B will be about the proposed method. Here’s what to include in each part:
Part A
Include:
• The research question (note that your original question may be substantially improved if you submitted it for feedback on the Moodle time) and rationale behind the research questions. Extra points if you provide some logical thinking to argue for a directional hypothesis (or present arguments for both directions). End with a good operationalised hypothesis.
• An explanation of why/how this question is psychological/sociological in nature.
• Background data and statistics from the TAC crash statistics tool, presented appropriately (table, graph, prose).
• A discussion of the limitations of the TAC tool for answering your research question.
Part B
Include as appropriate:
• Introduction to and overview of your proposal and how it will address your research question and hypothesis.
• Proposed participants:
o Where and how will you source/recruit them?
o Describe and justify the sampling methods to be employed.
• Proposed instruments/materials:
o Describe what you will use to collect the data.
o What form will the data take (ie type/class of data)?
• Proposed design
o What are the independent and dependent variables?
o What sort of data will be collected? (ie which aspects are quantitative and which are qualitative?)
o Is your project a within or between groups design?
• Proposed procedure
o What are the steps in your proposed procedure?
o Timing aspects
o Describe where and how randomisation has been built into the method.
• Are there any potential ethical issues to consider? E.g. will deception be used? Is anyone placed at any level of any sort of risk by your method?
• To better display your grasp of the concepts you may propose more than one method, making comparisons between them and explaining your reasoning for settling on one particular method. Only provide full detail on one method though.
Structure/format
Divide your assignment into Part A and Part B. Always write and structure assignments with the reader/marker in mind. The easier you make it for them to read and follow the better your mark will be. Use headings as appropriate. Spell check and proofread for grammar more than once during the writing process and just before submission.
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