Data 102: Group Project1
Conducting a Study on the residents of The Islands
Project Part 1: Proposal
Due: Friday, March 10
Goals: develop a set of research questions and data collection plan
Your Proposal must include:
Group letter
Names of all group members
Research Question section (see below)
Data Collection section (see below)
An example Proposal is on the last page.
RESEARCH QUESTION
Develop a research question that is both interesting and feasible for an Island project. Keep in
mind that your question could be either experimental or observational in nature.
Your group should have one large research agenda (or theme) that you are investigating.
However, the individual members of your group will explore different aspects of this research
agenda through their own individual research questions (RQs).
Example: Perhaps your group is interested in the effects of various activities on body
temperature. This would be the theme/research agenda. Possible individual research questions
would be:
Effect of walking on body temperature
Effect of running on body temperature
Effect of jumping on body temperature
In your proposal, you must tell me:
1. your theme/research agenda
2. the individual RQs that comprise that agenda
3. who will investigate each RQ.
1 Thanks to Laura Le and Ann Brearley at UMN, and Jo Hardin at Pomona for sharing resources. Much of the
assignment is taken directly from their excellent work.
