Problem of Practice Mock Study Development Template: Week Three

1) Describe your study population.

The study population will be both current and ex staff of group homes

2) Describe the procedure you will use to select the sample population for your mock study. Be sure to consider the type of information you will need to collect.

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3) Conduct a power analysis using G*Power and report your findings below.

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4) What methods will you use for data collection? Justify the appropriateness of each method. Note: This is a hypothetical response; you will not be collecting any actual data for this assignment.

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5) Provide operational definitions for each of your study variables. Hint: Operational definitions explain how variables will be measured. For example, if your study will investigate negative attitudes, how will those negative attitudes be measured?

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6) Identify an existing instrument from the peer-reviewed literature to use for your proposed study. Respond to the following items:

a. Briefly describe the instrument.

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b. Discuss the procedures used to validate the instrument.

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c. What modifications, if any, need to be made to the instrument to accommodate your proposed study? If modifications are needed, what steps must you take before you begin data collection?

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7) Populate all of your variable data in SPSS® and save it as a SAV file. Before you can upload your dataset for instructor review, it must be compressed into a ZIP file.

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