FINAL RESEARCH PLAN – due 04.23.2024 Your paper should follow APA formatting usi

FINAL RESEARCH PLAN – due 04.23.2024 Your paper should follow APA formatting using intext citations and your references should be formatted correctly. You should have a title page (that should be formatted using APA), there should also be a reference page, you should use the headers that provided for you in the instructions. Your page after the title page should have an introduction briefly discussing your social problem and the population that is affected by the problem. Your appendix section of your paper should have your recruitment flyer/letter and your instrument with a minimum of 10 questions. Your appendix should be formatted after your references. Introduction : Briefly describe your problem and population RESEARCH GAP (provide a brief overview of the literature which led to your research gap): THEORY (include name, author, brief overview of theory and connection to your research study): RESEARCH QUESTION (write in question form): IDENTIFY AND DEFINE VARIABLES HOW WILL YOU MEASURE VARIABLES? (Select which method you will use quantitatively or qualitatively AND explain your rationale) PARTICIPANTS Who will be the source of the data? What is the criteria/characteristics for your participants? (i.e. gender, race, age, grade, phenomenon) How many participants (sample size)? SAMPLING METHOD (what sampling methods will you use to recruit your participants?) Probability (identify) Nonprobability type (identify) MEASUREMENT (what instrument will use you to measure variables/ help you answer research question?) Existing Who developed instrument? What does it measure? How did the researcher establish validity and reliability? New What will it measure? What are the questions? How will you establish validity and reliability/ credibility? DATA COLLECTION Where will you recruit your participants? Once participants are recruited, where will you collect the data? What will the participants be expected to do? How long will it take to participant in study? What is your plan, if recruitment results in too few participants? DATA ANALYSIS Describe your process for analyzing the data, once collected? (i.e. Type of analysis and procedure, software used for analysis) APPENDICES – Recruitment tool- (e.g., flyer, letter) Instrument – Should be a minimum of 10 questions