Research Methods

There is some concern about a growing number of research studies that cannot be reproduced. Describe the implications this has for the research community as a whole. Include the steps that can be taken in order to try to mitigate this growing concern.

I hope you remember, I worked with you on the Toyota Motor Corporation Research. Now I want to finish it with you again.

Each student will be required to complete the term project, which is a research proposal written in an APA Style. The project should have at least 8-10 pages of substance not counting the cover and reference page. Please include a Cover Page, an abstract and a list of references. The research proposal you write in this course will NOT be sent to the IRB for approval. This is because you will not be conducting actual research for the purpose of this class. You will, however, gain an insight as to how to write a research proposal.

In a 10 to 15 page paper, students are asked to A) review the scholarly research on response and/or recovery and give an overview of major themes in the literature AND B) analyze the response and recovery to a FEMA federally declared disaster. The analysis should include information on the disaster, scholarly literature discussing some aspect of the disaster, and ways that the disaster response and recovery could be improved.