This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:
LO1: Critically evaluate and assess epistemological positions, research design and ethical issues in relation to social scientific research.
LO2: Demonstrate understanding and knowledge of quantitative social research
LO3: Analyse quantitative data using SPSS and link the results to wider social scientific literature.
Task requirements
Your report must include the following elements and be presented in the following order:
• Title
• Abstract
• Introduction to include
o Introduction to the topic area your research explored
o Rationale for doing the research
o Research questions and aims
• Literature review of previous research on the topic you have chosen to write about
• Methodology
o Methods used and rationale for these
o Sampling and rationale for this
o Research process – (e.g. what you did in practice)
o Ethical considerations – (e.g. what you did to ensure your research was ethical)
o Reflexivity – (e.g. the part you played in the process and an evaluation of what you did)
• Results (e.g. themes from qualitative data or statistical results from quantitative projects)
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Reference list
• Appendices (i.e., your SPSS data output plus a copy of your questionnaire etc.)
