研究計画の立案と主張
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GAC zero three three aligned practice develops a research proposal in a team. You develop, present and defend a plan, with presentation and coursework requirements set by your centre's current brief. The task concerns the proposal, not invented results from a study that has not been run. A question too big to investigate cannot be rescued by more reading alone. Narrow it until you can explain what would be measured and how the proposed evidence could answer it. Specificity is useful, but this lesson does not establish an official mark allocation.
A driving question opens an investigation. A good question is specific, researchable and arguable: evidence could support more than one possible answer before the investigation. It should not be settled by one simple lookup. Start from something you have noticed, then ask whether it can be investigated within your actual resources and time. A topic such as social media names an area, but does not identify a measurable question. Narrowing connects your curiosity with a method that could provide relevant evidence rather than collecting facts without a clear purpose.
Social media is too broad. Social media and study is narrower, but still gives no measurable question. Does keeping a phone out of reach during homework change how long students work before their first interruption? This names a condition and a possible measurement. It also needs a defined student group and timeframe. For a proposal, specify what would count as an interruption and how timing would be recorded. The question is stronger because it guides evidence collection. It does not already prove that moving a phone improves study.
Choose a method after the question, not before. An experiment changes a condition and measures its effect; its design still needs to address alternative explanations. A survey measures what people report, while observation records what they do. A research interview can explore their explanations, but does not automatically establish the true cause of behaviour. For the phone question, asking students how long they think they concentrate is different from timing a defined interruption. Explain which evidence your method produces and why it fits the exact question.
A proposal needs an ethics section. Explain consent, privacy, the right to withdraw and how you avoid harm. Plan anonymity where appropriate, but do not call records anonymous if you retain names or another way to identify participants. Describe how data would be handled and which school permissions are required. For a homework study, do not assume students must give you private phone contents. Collect only what is relevant and permitted. A measurable question does not remove the need to make its proposed method ethical and feasible.
Use databases and library catalogues rather than relying on a search engine alone. Keep a search log recording what you searched, where and what you found. Dates help you retrace the process. This is evidence of method and helps prevent repeating the same searches. Record citations as you read, so you can find and check original passages later. Evaluate relevance and evidence; appearing in a database does not make every claim suitable for your question. Keep useful sources and reasons for exclusions connected to the scope of your proposal.
Make the research question precise by naming variables, population and timeframe. Define interruption before anyone counts it. For example, your proposed definition must distinguish stopping the homework from a normal planned break. Where the design tests an effect, state a null hypothesis describing no specified difference or relationship. This makes the comparison clear. Not every exploratory qualitative question has the same hypothesis structure, so follow the task brief and chosen method. In the phone case, say exactly which conditions you would compare and what no measured difference would mean.
A literature review explains what is already known, where sources agree or disagree and the gap the proposed study could address. Organise by idea rather than making one disconnected paragraph per source. For one idea, cite relevant findings and compare what the methods can show. The gap justifies the study, but a source you have not yet found is not automatically a gap in knowledge. Explain how your planned evidence would add something useful in its limited context. This applies the idea-based organisation practised in earlier academic writing.
A proposal states the question, why it matters, what is known, the method, ethics, timeline and limitations. Write limitations before the study, because the design already constrains possible conclusions. One class does not establish what happens across every school. Self-reported timing has different limitations from observed timing. Set a realistic timeline for the weeks actually available, including necessary approvals and review. For this proposal task, do not imply that planned collection has already occurred. A credible plan explains both the value of its possible evidence and the boundaries of its conclusions.
Peer review here means reading another team's proposal as a critical friend. Ask whether the design could actually answer its question. Check the sample, measurement and alternative explanations. Give specific feedback about the work: the sample is only your class, so the whole-school claim does not follow. On receiving critique, consider a change or explain a reasoned response using evidence. Defending every original choice is not automatically a stronger outcome. Record the feedback, the decision and its reason so the revision process is visible rather than a claim that the proposal was reviewed.
Present the question first, then why it matters, then the method. An audience that does not understand the question cannot judge the method. Prepare for a defence about sample, measurement and alternative explanations. Answer a limitation directly. You can say, That is a real weakness; here is why the proposed evidence would still be informative within this group. Then explain that limited value. Do not answer around the weakness or invent results to make the plan sound successful. A defended proposal is a justified plan, with its limits still visible.
Pause and review the phone proposal. Define the students, conditions, timeframe and interruption before choosing measurement. Decide whether your method would record behaviour or only reported beliefs. Explain the required consent, privacy and withdrawal arrangements. Finally, name a conclusion the design could not justify, such as a whole-school causal claim from one class's uncontrolled reports. Revise the question or method where they do not match. Your final presentation should make the proposed evidence and its limitations clear, while following the centre's actual submission and authorship rules.