4) Research Design:
You need to design an experiment that will answer your research question. This is
accomplished by answering the following questions. In your document use the following
subheadings to clearly identify each question. You will be penalized for not doing so
a) Research Question (max 100 words)
Restate the research question outlined in your introduction and why it is important
b) Related Work (max 400 words)
Select two research designs from the literature that you have read related to your
research question. For each paper in about 200 words explain the research design, the
strengths and limitations of the design and how this design will be useful to support your
research design.
c) Design (max 350 words)
What research design will you use to answer your research question? That is,
experimental, quasi experimental, correlational, ethnography etc.
Explain your design. For example, outline your control and experimental groupings, the
number of samples you need, and how you will determine the accuracy of your results.
Why did you select this design? What are the strengths and limitations of this design in
relation to your research?
Your design should show how it will answer your research question
Literature Planner – Instructions Delete this page when submitting this document online for assessment. Reference Number: Number your references starting from 1 Authors: If one or two authors list their names. If more than two list the first author followed by et. al. Title of Article: The title of the research paper / book etc. Type: State if it is a conference, journal, book etc. Publication: The name of the publication that the work was published in. Year Published: What year was article published Number of citations: The number of citations that the publication has received to date. Also mention the source of data (e.g. Scopus or Google Scholar) Publication Rating: Use Scopus to determine the CiteScore and ranking information for each publication. Not all publications are rated, use 'N/A' if there is no score. See notes on how to extract this from lecture 2, and the document ‘How to measure impact - CiteScore and citation counts’ Primary or Secondary: State if the research conducted in the article is primary or secondary research (see lecture notes week 2) What themes were discussed in the Literature Review: Use keywords to discuss the major themes in the article What was the research question: What was the question the article was trying to find the answer to? Design: How did they try and answer the question: What did they do? E.g. simulation, experimental design, statistical analysis etc. What was the finding: What answers were found from undertaking the research in the article? What were the gaps: What limitations occurred in the research design or where outlined in the results or discussion? Note: When this work is submitted into Turnitin, it is ok if the similarity percentage is high due to the similarity in headings. What the markers will be concentrating on is the similarity in the text that you write Literature Planner Student Name:Student Number: Topic: Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Reference Number: Title of Article: Authors: Publication: Type: Year Published: Number of citations: Primary or Secondary: Publication Rating: CiteScore:Rank: Percentile: In-Category:CiteScore Year: What was the research question? What themes were discussed in the Literature Review? Design: What was the finding? What were the gaps? Microsoft Word - ENGG851 Assessment Two Details-Spring.docx ENGG851 – Assessment Two IMPORTANT: To pass this subject you must get at least 35% in three out of the four assessment tasks and participate in all five assessed activities. Failure to do so will result in a Technical Fail. Late submissions: The ‘Due Date’ is the due date. While you are given a penalty free period, do not consider the end of the penalty free period as your ‘real’ due date. For students that do, it is common that when they go to submit they encounter problems and ask for an extension. You will not get one – do not ask or email as your requests will be ignored. Submissions submitted within 24hours of the end of the penalty free period can only receive a maximum grade of the ‘good’ column. After this 24hr period, submissions will receive a grade of zero! Therefore, aim to complete for the real due date and if you run into problems you will actually have the penalty free period to save you. After the penalty free period expires, if you have already submitted a document through Turnitin, you will NOT be able to resubmit another updated document. This assessment continues the work you conducted in Assessment One. Format: Use the thesis specifications outlined in the lecture for ENGG851 students. You must submit a WORD document! Plagiarism: Any section with major plagiarism issues will be given a score of zero for ALL relevant marking criteria! See Lecture 4 for full details on plagiarism! Remember the learning objective of this subject is to provide evidence of your higher order skills! Feedback: As this is the major assessment task for ENGG851 you will not receive your grades or feedback for this assessment until December. The assessment requires the following: 1) Abstract: Write an abstract for your research (this abstract will take the form of one suitable for a journal article). It should take the following form: a. TOPIC: Outline topic area b. SIGNIFIGANCE: Why is your research important? c. METHODOLOGY: How are you conducting your research? d. FINDINGS: What came from your research? (Create your own finding – make it up) e. CONCLUSION: As a result we recommend….. The abstract should be no longer than 200 words. While the abstract is the first activity it should be the very last thing that you write. If you try and write this first you might struggle. You won’t have any findings (as you are not undertaking any real research), so pretend that you did the experiment and mention your findings. Your abstract should not have any paragraphs or citations. 2) Introduction: You need to IMPROVE and resubmit your Introduction Chapter from Assessment One. You should use the feedback from the marked version and make all the necessary improvements. Take note that it is ok if Turnitin finds substantial similarity with your submission in assessment one, this is expected. You should also consider the discussions held with the sample student submissions in the lecture. If you need to slightly change the wording of your research question, you may do so. However, you should not be changing your topic, this should be a continuations of your existing work. The markers will have greater expectations compared to assessment one. 3) Literature Review: Complete a Literature Review Chapter. This is only a short literature review (~1800 words) identifying key findings in the area, leading into the gaps in our current understanding that your research studies seek to address. In this section you should be showing your ability to critique literature! This should then lead into a research proposal/design. Look at the examples provided in week 4 lecture, and consider the discussions held with the sample student submissions in the week 4 lecture. 4) Research Design: You need to design an experiment that will answer your research question. This is accomplished by answering the following questions. In your document use the following subheadings to clearly identify each question. You will be penalized for not doing so a) Research Question (max 100 words) Restate the research question outlined in your introduction and why it is important b) Related Work (max 400 words) Select two research designs from the literature that you have read related to your research question. For each paper in about 200 words explain the research design, the strengths and limitations of the design and how this design will be useful to support your research design. c) Design (max 350 words) What research design will you use to answer your research question? That is, experimental, quasi experimental, correlational, ethnography etc. Explain your design. For example, outline your control and experimental groupings, the number of samples you need, and how you will determine the accuracy of your results. Why did you select this design? What are the strengths and limitations of this design in relation to your research? Your design should show how it will answer your research question 5) Design Questions This section is NOT related to your research topic. This is simply testing your understanding of key concepts. Use ‘Design Questions’ as the subheading. DO NOT include this section in the peer review activity in the tutorial. Answer the following questions: a) What are experimental and correlational designs? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the designs? 2MARKS (max 200 words) b) What are some of the key ethical issues associated with research involving human participants? What processes and considerations are needed? 2MARKS (max 200 words) c) Consider the following table outlining an analysis of results from an experiment. What can you say about the results between the various groups? 2MARKS (max 100 words) Group Effect on Performance p‐value A vs B 5.12 0.235 A vs C 2.35 0.002 B vs C 3.75 2.350 6) Literature Planner At the end of the document you MUST submit your updated literature planner. Every reference you use must be outlined in the literature planner. Note: No marks are assigned for the literature planner in this assessment. However, a literature planner that is incomplete, not attached, of bad quality or does not reflect the references used in parts 1 – 4 will receive UP TO 20 penalty marks. It is expected that there will be substantial similarity with your earlier submissions of the literature planner. Submission i) Submit ONE document comprising a partial thesis (Title page, Abstract, List of Contents, List of Figures, List of Tables, Abbreviations and Symbols, Introduction, Literature Review and Research Design and Questions and Literature Planner. This needs to be a WORD document. ii) You need to upload this document via the Turnitin link available in Moodle. You must submit the link to the discipline that your topic belongs to. The tutor from each school will be responsible for marking the assessment task. A penalty applies for submitting your work to the wrong Turnitin link. IMPORTANT – You can submit your work to Turnitin as many times as you like up until the penalty free period expires. If you already have a submission in the system you will not be able to update your document after the penalty free period expires. When resubmitting ensure the file name remains the same. Only the last version will be used to confirm the originality. The first time you submit your work to Turnitin it will take only a few minutes to generate the report. All further submissions will take at least 24hours to produce the report. Therefore you need to plan your work very carefully. Waiting for a Turnitin report is no excuse for late submission! Words of advice 1. Use the marking rubric and subject outline to guide you through what needs to be done and submitted. Understand all the penalties that apply 2. Use the structure of the introduction and literature review examples presented to you in lecture 3, and plagiarism examples in lecture 4 to guide you. Also, consider the previous student submission examples and the related discussions in the lecture 4 to guide you. 3. Get a friend to proof read your work. Your ability to write is a major contribution to the assessment 4. Use EndNote to help with referencing 5. Do not leave this to the last minute. A lot of work is required to complete the assessment 6. Turnitin will find all sorts of plagiarism. Any attempts to beat the Turnitin system will face major penalties. See the marking rubric for more details.