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Homework: Athletic Program
For this required homework imagine you are the researcher in an important research question: How does involvement in an after-school sports program affect students in Chicago Public High Schools' preparedness for college?
It will be beneficial for you to read the qualitative research methodology.
For this homework, in 3 to 3.5 pages, discuss the plan for your quantitative approach, including:
A. Establish the goals of the project- What is your specific research question for this study. Find a public data set that best helps you answer this research question- it must have an active link that anyone verify. How will your dataset address those questions? Provide active link to public dataset in References.
B. Determine your sample- Who was part of the survey? How will you choose your sample? How many people should be in the sample? Will you (and how will you) sample for your study? This can be determined by you or you can use the sample selection criteria as described in your public dataset information page.
C. Choose variables - What are some variables? How will they be measured?
D. How would you analyze the data and communicate results- How will you deal with non-response? How will you analyze the data? How would you communicate the results? (NOTE: you will NOT be required to actually collect or analyze data).
For each of the above questions, provide your plan and justify WHY this is the best approach. If there are multiple approaches you could take, why is your proposal the best option? What are the tradeoffs?