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 * ASSESSMENT 2** **- 20%**

You need to be clear that a research can be classified as: descriptive, correlational, explanatory, and/ or exploratory. What are they?

1. Descriptive research attempts to describe systematically a situation, problem, phenomenon, service or program, or provides information about, say, living condition of a community, or describes attitudes towards an issue.

2. Correlational research attempts to discover or establish the existence of a relationship/ interdependence between two or more aspects of a situation.

3. Explanatory research attempts to clarify why and how there is a relationship between two or more aspects of a situation or phenomenon.

4. Exploratory research is undertaken to explore an area where little is known or to investigate the possibilities of undertaking a particular research study (feasibility study / pilot study).

Once you are clear of your research classification, you should start writing the proposal. Proposal writing and proposal presentation carry 20% of the total percentage of this course. Here are the details:

__Proposal writing assessment (10%)__

In the proposal writing assessment, you need to submit your work as a group and therefore everyone in the group will be awarded the same marks. As such you must help each other to ensure your group may attain good marks. In the proposal, there are 9 items to be included which are:

1) Title 2) Introduction - Background 3) Problem Statement 4) Research objectives and Research Questions 5) Significance of study 6) Scope of study 7) Relevant Literature (pre-formatted table) 8) Research Methodology 9) Work schedule 10) References

Please ensure that you include the assessment sheet as the cover page for your proposal. Details guidelines on what you should prepare for Assessment, including the cover sheet are here

__Proposal presentation assessment (10%)__

In presenting your proposal to the class, you will need to present the information on your proposed research you consider important for people to know and understand. Therefore, you must exercise your skill of choosing or selecting only the essential pieces of information. Note that although this presentation is based on an individual basis, team work is essentially needed especially in choosing the relevant, important information to be presented and the division of time allocated to each presenter.

The details are here