Write a paper on the Effectiveness of Domestic Violence Courts (Rape)a. State your hypothesis. Clearly define your pivotal concepts and state your unit of analysis. Describe how are variables manipulated or operationalized?
b. Use an experimental design – surveys and other methods are not acceptable. Write in/lay out the chart for your experiment. Explain each element of your design in a legend.
c. Describe in detail how you would accomplish each step of your experiment. Discuss how you meet all requirements (equivalence, pre-test, treatment, post-test, duration of your proposed research.
d. Though you don’t need to collect data for this paper, you need to discuss the procedure how you would need to conduct to collect data. Whom will you use as your research subjects? How many? Anything special about the sample? Random selection, matching, etc.? You must describe your sampling procedure.
e. At the end of the section, state the three possible outcomes. And point out which outcome will support your hypothesis.
In order to meet the guidelines listed above, the methods section of your term paper should contain the following parts.
1. The hypothesis.
2. Draw a chart of the experimental design with a legend for the symbols on the chart.
3. Independent variable and its attributes.
4. Dependent variable and its measurement.
5. Research site and a description of its population.
6. How do you take a sample from this population for your study.
7. The unit of analysis – individual, group, or social artifact.
8. How do you conduct your pretest? Also include your comment on the equivalence of the two
groups.
9. What is your treatment? How would you administer it?
10. The duration of your research.
11. How do you conduct your posttest?
12. Without having to collect data, what are the three possible outcomes?
13. A concluding statement – which of the three outcomes supports your hypothesis.
