Question

Scenario #1: The State of Wisconsin began running a Boot Camp for first time youth drug offenders. The camp entails sending the offenders to the north woods from 3/14/2015 - 4/27/2015. "Campers" will build their own shelters and cook over open fires. The camp also includes traditional boot camp aspects like exercise, drills, etc. Billy Badger was given the job of determining the effectiveness of the boot camp. The next time the boot camp is conducted, he will compare a random sample of offenders placed in traditional programs (e.g., probation, incarceration, drug treatment, day treatment, house arrest, etc.) to a random sample of offenders placed in the boot camp. He is planning on comparing the groups on recidivism rates for the next two years.

1. What is your proposed Research Question(s) for this study? List them in detail.

2. What is your proposed "Hypothesis" for this scenario? Be specific.

3. What is your proposed "Null Hypothesis" for this scenario?

4. What is an "Independent Variable?" What would be the Independent Variable(s) for this scenario?

5. What is a "Dependent Variable?" What would be the Dependent Variable(s) for this scenario?

6. What would be your research design for this study. Where would it take place? How would you choose your subjects? What measurement tool(s) would you use and why?

7. How would you show your results? Be specific with several examples.

8. What problems, if any, do you project with the proposed studies regarding the participants or outcomes?

Answer 1

1. Whether the recidivism rates for groups for the next two years.

2.Proposed Hypothesis: The recidivism rates for all the groups are not same for the next two years.

3.Null Hypothesis: The recidivism rates for all the groups are same for the next two years.

4.A variable (often denoted by x ) whose variation does not depend on that of another.Independent variables in this study are probation, incarceration, drug treatment, day treatment, house arrest.

5.A variable (often denoted by y ) whose value depends on that of another. Dependent variables in this study are exercise, drills etc.

6.

(i) Identify the research problem clearly and justify its selection, particularly in relation to any valid alternative designs that could have been used,

(ii) Review and synthesize previously published literature associated with the research problem,

(iii) Clearly and explicitly specify hypotheses [i.e., research questions] central to the problem,

(iv) Effectively describe the data which will be necessary for an adequate testing of the hypotheses and explain how such data will be obtained, and

(v) Describe the methods of analysis to be applied to the data in determining whether or not the hypotheses are true or false.

Cross-sectional research design will be a great choice.