D Group - Senior plans and influences

Brianna Agyemang     bagyeman@andrew.cmu.edu
Nia Austin           nia@cmu.edu
Kristine McPherson   kmcphers@andrew.cmu.edu
Jaimie Lee           jaimiel@andrew.cmu.edu

Section 1: Introduction                             20/20

  Research Question and Motivation

  Citations to literature on this topic

  Quick summary of main results from Section 4

Section 2: Methods                                  20/20

  Target population, frame, sample design/methods, sample size

  Number of respondents contacted, number of respondents, other
  nonresponse/refusal information

  A few questions from your questionnaire (full questionnaire, contact
  letter(s), informed consent statement, etc, in appendices)

  Post-survey processing

  Other relevant information from the body of your progress report
  talk

Section 3: Results                                  18/20

  (may or may not be longer than Section 2!)

  Restate research question(s), show statistical analyses, discuss how
  they answer each research question (gory stat details in another
  appendix?)

Section 4: Discussion                               20/20

  Overall discussion of research questions, how well survey answered
  them

  Any surprising, or expected, results

  Strengths and weaknesses of your survey; recommendations for future

  Take-home message(s)

List of References                                  10/10

Appendices                                          10/10

TOTAL                                               98/100

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