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What area of interest/research question do you wish to explore through a research study design?

I would like to explore the effects of a single parent environment. Does single-parent child will be more likely to be a single parent later?

What variables or concepts are you looking to observe and/or manipulate?

I will be looking at two types of family’s children.

What type of design would best suit your research question? (Experimental, Correlational, etc)

I think it’s both Experimental and Correlational.

What research method would you use to conduct your experiment? (Survey, case study, naturalistic observation, lab experiment, etc.)

I will choose case study and naturalistic observation

If applicable, what would you put as your independent and dependent variables?

I don’t think it apply to my study.  I think I just need to compare regular family’s children and single-parent’s children.

Give a hypothesis about what you think you might find.

I might find that single-parent’s children will be more likely to be a single parent later.

What might be the benefits and implications of this study? In other words, who would gain from it?

I think society will gain from it. Be responsible for our behavior. What we do will affect our next generation.

Please reflect on the process of designing this experiment. What were the challenges you faced? Was this more/less difficult than you expected? How?

I need to study not only one case but more and the people I study need to diverse. It’s more difficult than I expected that I need to study a lot of people to make the result more accurate. I did not consider that there will me other factors or variables  or confounding variables that would affect the results.