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It's time to design your research! In this stepping stone you will identify what you want to know about your issue and figure out the best way to collect that information.
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Time Commitment:
5-10 sessions
1.
Use these resources:
Vocabulary Body Sculptures: Research Design (understanding research terms and definitions)
Sample Agenda (planning your research design process)
Do this activity:
Developing a Research Question (identifying the question you want to answer through your research)
2.
Do these activities:
Best of the Best/Worst of
the Worst: Developing Indicators (identifying ways
to assess your issue)
Sample Soup Story (deciding
from whom you need to collect data)
Final Product Brainstorm
(choosing a format for your final product)
Round Robin Tool Selection (choosing which research methods best fit your
project)
Use these to explore your options:
Mapping in Our Community (exploring how you can use mapping
and data other people have collected in your research project)
Research Tool Overview (exploring the pros and cons of different research options)
3.
Do at least 1 of these activities:
Snowball Fight for Tool Development (having fun while developing questions for your research tool)
Research Question to Tool Development (turning questions into a research tool)
Demographics (developing questions to get background information on the people within your research)
Use these to explore your options:
Tool Games: Designing Your Research Tool (exploring different types of questions and
which will work best for your goals)
Sample Research Tools (looking at tools other youth researchers created to understand different research methods)
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