Project Planning Document

Due date: March 10
Maximum length: ~4-5 pages

Overview

The project planning document is a basic shell/outline of an empirical quantitative research paper.

I recommend using something like this quantitative planning document, but you can use whatever format you would like, as long as it includes clear, well-developed answers to the following questions:

  1. What is the context of your project? What is the phenomenon you are interested in studying, and why is it interesting?
  2. What hypotheses will you be testing (for a quantitative project)?
  3. Where will the data come from? How will it be collected, and how will variables be operationalized?
  4. What analyses will you be conducting? How will these analyses help you test your hypotheses?
  5. What are the ethical considerations of the project?
  6. What are the limitations of the project?