Field Project Plan

To ensure that your Field Project is on track and to head off potential problems, you must make a plan and get Prof. Marvel’s approval for your plan in advance. Before completing this project plan, please read through the Field Project protocol.

Instructions: Either print out this form and write in your answers, write your answers on separate paper, or email just the answers (in plain text) to Prof. Marvel. Before you do any of those, you are encouraged to kick your idea around informally with Prof. Marvel in person or by email. You could also send an email with your numbered answers to the questions, but the process works better if you can discuss your written plan face to face and receive approval on the spot.

Save this form with Prof. Marvel’s signature, or print a copy of the email approving your plan. You will attach it to your project report.

1. My name is...

2. I intend to test this claim...
   (A claim is a declarative sentence, not a question.)

    

3. I will use this case number...

4. My hypotheses in symbols are...
   (Use words for Cases 6 and 7.)

    

5. My data collection plan is...
   (Answer whichever one of these applies.)

   • ___ I’ll use published data, including the TC3 student database. My source is (URL, book title and author, newspaper name and issue date, etc.).
   • ___ I’m planning a survey. (a) I attach a copy of my survey form. (b) Here’s where and when I intend to conduct it. (Don’t start your survey before it’s approved.)
   • ___ Neither of the above; my plan is as follows.
     (Example: “I will buy two one-pound bags of plain M&Ms and count the colors.”)

    

6. I plan sample size(s) of...

    

7. The population size is...
   (Remember that the population must be quite a bit larger than your sample.)