Section 2: Planning A Research Project

These lively and stimulating ideas for use in and out of class reinforce active learning. The activities apply to individual or group projects.

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Activity 16: Choosing a research topic

Activity 17: Producing aims and objectives

Activity 18: Developing a research question

Activity 20: Choosing research methods

Activity 23: Knowing about non-probability (purposive) sampling

Activity 24: Choosing sample size

Activity 25: Avoiding sampling problems

Activity 26: Justifying your research topic

Activity 27: Defending methodology

Activity 28: Costing a research project

Activity 29: Producing and justifying your budget

Activity 30: Producing a research proposal