Quick Research Question

[masrat858]

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Could this possibly count towards research experience? To help form an opinion, I'd like to point particularly towards this paragraph:

"You will work in small research teams (3-4 students per team) to complete 3 research projects throughout the semester. These projects are designed to provide you with the experience of planning a research study, collecting and analyzing data, and developing a written summary. The summary should be relatively brief (2-3 double-spaced, typed pages) and include a statement of the study rationale and hypotheses, methodology, statistical analysis plan, results, and discussion. Students will work in groups to collect and analyze data but must submit individual summaries."

 

[Gilakend]

To me personally this sounds like a class project. I had to do something similar to what you're describing (small groups, observation/surveys, analyze) and it was much more a class project than scientific research. If you were to do the IRP and then actually do that experiment and do it with the purpose of research and publishing it, then I think that would count. However, I am not well versed in social sciences research.

 

[aldol16]

Is the research original? It sounds like the projects are previously designed didactic experiments that are designed to help you learn the scientific process in a controlled way.