Please finish reading Duesbery & Twyman Parts 9 & 10  and read Patten & Newhart Part 10. I asked a number of groups to post presentations on that material last week. The current reading should help you gain some final clarification on the proposal assignment.

The Quiz will cover Duesbery & Twyman Parts 6 – 10

Finally, you’ll start planning the Informatics Applied Research Project Proposal by writing the Week 14 Bog Post- Finalize Hypothesis, Create Flowchart, and Outline the Proposal.  You have an example you can review with a previous discussion about the example, and we discussed the assignment in-depth in the video I shared last week. Use the bookmark icon in the lower right to access to jump ahead 30 minutes and start with the “Preview of Week 14.”

Learning Activities:

1. Reading: Duesbery & Twyman Parts 9 & 10 ;
2. Reading: Patten & Newhart Part 10 (to help with your proposal).
3. Use available video reviews to help prepare for quiz and to help prepare for the proposal.
   • Did you do a presentation? If it doesn’t show up when you click the Video Reviews link above, make sure your presentation post is tagged with “Presentation.” If it isn’t, I may miss your presentation when I grade them.
4. Review instructional material on Flowcharts to consider how your study can be visualized in that manner.

Assignments:

1. Quiz 5
2. Week-14 blog post
3. Research Designers, Methodological Masters, Experimental Experts, and Quality Clarifications must post two replies to presentations from last week. Feel free to stick to your discussions group, but if you think you can add more with a reply to someone outside of your group, feel free to do that instead. Just make sure you have two good replies for full credit.

Quiz Tips:

• It covers the last four parts of Duesbery & Twyman.
• There are 25 questions in the quiz, you will have 45 minutes to finish it.
• This is an open book/open notes quiz.

Week 14 Blog Post  — Get Ready to Write

Provide us with one last assigned post to tell us about your current plans and help you lay them out.

Provide:

• The usual blog post etiquette (unique title, hashtags relevant to your research and categorize ONLY in “Week 14 Blog Post,” an appropriate picture, etc.)
• Your final hypothesis
• A flowchart of your study
  • See Duesbery & Twyman, Question 33
  • I would suggest drawing your flowchart, taking a picture of it, and using that picture as your blog post picture.
  • My wish for your chart: It would be so lovely if each of you review Q33 before creating your flowchart. It shows you exactly how to hash out what will happen in your study. The flowchart is NOT an outline of your proposal, that’s the next requirement. A flowchart of the study and an outline of your proposal paper are two very different things.
  • Survey Example: Surveys that involve only one point of contact should have four items:
    • Sample,
    • Survey (with a list of basic topics, like the Duesberry and Twyman example),
    • Method of analysis, and
    • Two boxes to cover the requirements to uphold your hypotheses and the requirement that will not uphold your hypothesis.
      • Example: (Box a) H Upheld if heavy news viewers have a significantly higher average fear score than light news viewers. (Box b) H not proven if the two groups do not have significantly different scores.
• A sensible outline of your proposal, based upon pages six through eight in the proposal instructions. As noted above, this should have different elements than the flowchart. The flowchart and the proposal show two different things.
• Tip: Be sure to review the rubric so you do not miss any important expectations for this assignment.

Week 14 Deadline: Monday, May 2 at 2pm Central