Clark University Evaluation Proposal Worksheet I need you help me to finish the assignment which is have two part. The first part is help me to identify ev

Clark University Evaluation Proposal Worksheet I need you help me to finish the assignment which is have two part. The first part is help me to identify evaluations and/or studies that are related to the topic of interest. and do a literature review. The second part is help me to create a survey which can help identify measures to collect the data.The Objective assignment: Think about how each research design could be used in evaluation. This will help to begin the Evaluation Proposal project. Assignment 8, Part A
Objective
Think about how each research design could be used in evaluation. This will help you begin your Evaluation
Proposal project due in Week 13.
Assignment
Now that you are familiar with experiments, quasi-experiments, and non-experiments, I would like you to think
about how each research design could be used in evaluation. The steps you take here will help you lay the
foundation for your final proposal. For more on this assignment, please see the documents linked on Moodle.
Step 1
The first thing you need to do is identify some potential variables. Think about variables or topics you have
personal and/or professional experience with that you might be interested in evaluating. Brainstorm related
variables and topics as I have in the table below. There is no wrong way to do this! Note: Please pick a
variable other than stress.
Potential Variable/Topic
Related Variables/Topics
Fatigue
Gender differences
Example: Stress
How it affects sleep
How it affects overall health
How it’s related to happiness
How it affects motivation
Potential Variable/Topic
Related Variables/Topics
Your answer here
Your answers here
Step 2
What could be a general research question involving that variable? Don’t think about how you could
investigate it just yet, but instead focus on what question/s you might want to answer.
My example would be “How does stress affect motivation? Specifically, how does it affect academic
motivation?”
Step 3
Do a literature review to investigate how others have studied this/these variable/s.
We’re going to use the PsycINFO database to get started, but you may also want to use JSTOR.
To get to this database
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Visit Carlson Science Library
Select “Databases”
Select “Multidisciplinary”.
Select “P” and all the databases that begin with this letter will appear. (Alternatively choose J for
JSTOR)
5. Click on “PsycINFO” (pictured below).
6. If you’re off campus, you may need to enter your username and password.
Watch these YouTube videos for assistance in your search, if needed.
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PsycINFO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhhctbaVXvk
JSTOR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYluDUtplO0
Use different keywords during your search (i.e., the related variables/topics you brainstormed in step one). You
may also want to play with limiting or narrowing your search. I recommend settling upon a keyword or
combination of keywords that give you 200 (plus or minus) search results. Anything larger will be a challenge
to sort through.
Write a brief description (3-4 paragraphs) about your search and what you found. Include the search terms you
used and how many “hits” came with each one. I’m interested in your research process and the outcome.
My example: I first used “stress” as a keyword and got 240,241 search results. Since this was too many
to start with, I entered “academic motivation” in the second search box under “stress” and got 176
search results. I read the abstracts of approximately 10 of the most relevant articles and learned (a
description of what I learned would follow).
Step 4
Propose how each design could be used to answer your research question (keep things general as I have in the
example below) and type your answers into the boxes below.
My example: variables- stress and academic motivation
My research question- How does stress affect academic motivation?
Experimental Design
Quasi-Experimental Design
Survey/Observational
Design
If stress was my independent
variable and academic
motivation was my dependent
variable, I could have 2
groups (people will be
randomly assigned to each)
where I manipulate their
stress levels (one group will
be stressed and the other
won’t) and then measure
their academic motivation.
I might want to know how
stress affects academic
motivation for graduate
students compared to
undergraduate students so
this would be a quasiexperimental design. I would
measure their stress and
academic motivation and
compare the 2 groups.
I could create a survey that
assesses stress and academic
motivation and hand it out to
anyone or post it online.
Quasi-Experimental Design
Survey/Observational
Design
Alternatively, I could do a
longitudinal study where I
track the same people’s stress
and academic motivation
over time (say every month
for 1 year).
Your variablesYour research questionExperimental Design
Assignment 8, Part B
Objective
Apply survey design concepts by creating a short survey
Assignment
This week we learned about experiments, quasi-experiments, and survey & observational designs. Surveys can
be used with each type of research design so you will design your own survey using the variables of interest you
researched for Part A of Assignment 8.
If a survey measuring your variables already exists, use it as inspiration but you must create your own items.
Your survey must include at least 20 items and an additional 5 should ask about demographics (e.g., personal
information about the participants such as age, level of education, etc.).
Be sure to use the following resources to help craft your survey:
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Tip Sheet on Question Wording by Chase Harrison/Harvard University
Improving Response Rates and Questionnaire Design for Mobile Web Surveys
Common Likert-Type Scale Responses

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