Review of Research Proposals

Part 1

Submit your RE1 Research Proposal for peer review this week.

Part 2

Then, select two of your classmates' responses and review them (each in a 150-300 word threaded reply).  Identify elements you believe to be particularly strong within the proposal, and areas that you think could be improved.

Ensure that each student receives at least two postings (feedback) before commenting a third time on any single proposal.

As a reminder, students completing Research Elective I and II are prohibited from conducting surveys, interviews, focus groups, or polls related to their Research Elective writing. 
  
DAFMAN 36-2664 defines a survey as questionnaires, focus groups, polls, or interviews. If you were considering conducting a survey, interview/s, polls, or focus groups, we encourage you to consider conducting one of the following methodological approaches:

• A meta-analysis (or synthesis) of research already conducted that speaks to an AF or National Security problem. This is something that is particularly useful, because application of empirical research to military problems is severely lacking. The field is wide open, here.
• Historical analysis 
• Analysis of an existing publicly available data sets 
• Case analysis, applying theoretical principles to cases or contexts  

Theoretical Argument, etc.