Completing the Research Study-How the findings contribute to the study of your topic.

Introduction:

Write 1-2 paragraphs introducing your research study.
Include:
A brief statement on current research related to your topic (with in-text citations).
A descriiption of your research topic.
Why you chose this topic.
What you hoped to learn.
Your research question.
Your broad hypothesis.
Literature Review:

Write 3-5 paragraphs reviewing studies related to your topic.
Use more than three sources:
At least two should be peer-reviewed journal articles.
Methods/Dataset:

Describe the GSS dataset in one paragraph.
Methods/Variables:

Explain why you chose your independent and dependent variables in one paragraph.
Include:
Names of the variables.
Levels of measurement.
Survey questions.
Response choices for each variable.
Methods/Variable Information:

Copy and paste:
Frequency tables.
Descriiptive statistics.
Charts (e.g., histograms, bar, or pie charts).
Provide a summary/explanation of what the tables/charts reveal about the variables.
Findings:

Copy and paste corrected analyses from Weeks 3-6 (e.g., Crosstabs, Measures of Association, Tests of Significance).
Include the five steps of hypothesis testing.
Explain what the analyses indicate about the relationships between the variables.
Conclusions:

Discuss:
How the findings contribute to the study of your topic.
What you learned.
Other variables that should be explored.
Future research opportunities.
References:

Provide APA citations for all sources used.
Format:
List alphabetically by the author’s last name.
Use hanging indentation.
Include a citation for the GSS dataset (available in Week 1 Lessons).
Make sure to use SPSS and the GSS dataset to generate and analyze the required data for this assignment.

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