Answer the Questions Regarding Your Research Proposal Below

CADV 380 Research Measures Objective The purpose of this assignment is concretize the variables in your research study through the identification of research instruments. Assignment  Answer the questions regarding your research proposal below  Upload your responses to turnitin.com  Include a copy of your instruments with your hardcopy

1. What is your research question? . Does social skills training effect children’s popularity?

2. What is your research hypothesis? . Children with social skills training will be more popular than children without social skills training.

3. What is your null hypothesis? . Children with social skills training and children without social skills training will have equal popularity.

4. What is/are your independent variable/s? . Participating in social skills training curriculum (or not)

5. What is/are your dependent variable/s? . Popularity

6. Provide an operationalization (definition) for each of your variables . Social skills training -- Skillstreaming in Early Childhood (1990) E. McGinnis & A. P. Goldstein.  Social skills curriculum designed to teach children 1) Beginning social skills (e.g., listening, using nice talk); 2) School related skills (e.g., asking a question, following directions); 3) Friendship-making skills (e.g., greeting others, waiting your turn); 4) Dealing with feelings (e.g., feeling left out, dealing with fear); 5) Alternatives to aggression (e.g., dealing with teasing, solving a problem); 6) Dealing with stress (e.g., relaxing, being honest).

. Popularity – people liking to hang out with you

7. Describe how each of your variables will be measured. . Popularity  Each student in the class will receive roster with all the names of their classmates on it. Students will be asked to put a check mark next to the names of the students that most other students like to hang out with.  Each student will rate, on a 5-point Likert-type scale, how much other students like to hang out with them ( 1 = not so much, 5 = very much)

8. Include copies of your measures/instrumentation (measures need not be uploaded to turnitin.com)