HHS4U - Intro to Social Science Research (Sept 21st-27th)

As part of our class, you will be conducting research tasks. We will be going through the assignment in detail and step by step.

Essential learnings these tasks will cover:

1. To understand how to conduct research in order to discover the constantly evolving trends and issues related to families in Canada

2. To understand how to effectively communicate the results of social science research in a variety of ways, using APA format

Helpful Reading: 1. Narrowing Down Your research topic 2. How to write a hypothesis/Research Question 3. Bias: How it effect your research

Assignment handouts (try and do the majority of your work in class) are available below: Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 2 exemplar

Phase 3

Phase 4

Formulating a research question

APA format

APA worksheet

Designing a research instrument

How to make an appendix

Examples of research surveys - http://www.learner.org/workshops/civics/workshop2/lessonplan/nj_survey.pdf APA Reference Page exemplar

Survey design ppt