PA 6601 AMU How Does Bullying Affect Academic Achievements in School Discussion

When you begin considering a research proposal, you must first determine what you want to propose to do research about. This is an important step since you can’t really do anything further until you make this decision. For this week’s assignment, you will write a short paper that will eventually be incorporated into the Introduction for Chapter 1 of your final proposal. In this paper, your task is to explain your proposed research topic and develop the research question for your proposed study. You also need to make it very clear what the purpose of your research is going to be. Your textbook readings will help you to get started, but additional research on your own may well be needed to learn more about how to develop the research question.

At a minimum, you must respond to the following questions within this paper:

• What is the problem and/or purpose of the research study?
• Does the problem or purpose statement express a relationship between two or more variables? If so, what is/are the relationship(s)? Are they testable?
• Does the problem statement and/or purpose specify the nature of the population being studied? What is it?
• What significance of the problem, if any, has the investigator identified?

This paper should be somewhat comprehensive (minimum 250-500 words, or 1-2 pages double-spaced, in length), supported and defended with references to academic sources, and formatted in accordance with APA requirements. For grading considerations, refer to the grading rubric in your syllabus. To assist you with getting started on this assignment, I have provided the attached document.

You have until Thursday of this week to post your paper to this discussion board. Begin by posting your own paper as an attachment by creating a new thread and then reply to papers from at least 3 of your group mates. NOTE: Your papers MUST be posted NLT Thursday of this week. Comments to group mates MUST be posted NLT than Sunday.