Research Design: Strengths and Limitations
Your task is to design a study that looks at whether setting tiny goals that align with your purpose increases grit.
Select a case study, naturalistic observation, survey, or archival research to study the
effectiveness of setting tiny goals that align with a person’s purpose to increase their grit.
Organization for your Paper
Introduction: Explain what grit is and its general importance to students (provide an in-
text citation for any information you learned from the article).
Name and describe the research method (case study, naturalistic observation, survey, or
archival research) you will use to study whether or not people who set tiny goals that
align with their purpose develop more grit. Include in your description:
A brief description of how you will conduct the study such as what will need to be done,
what will be measured (HINT; you can use this grit scale to measure a study participant’s
grit). Include:
a. A description of the Independent Variable
b. A description of the Dependent Variable
A description of at least two strengths and two weaknesses of this research method
A description of the reliability of this research method
A description of the validity of this research method
After completing steps 1-6, read this paragraph about true experiments and explain the advantages and disadvantages of conducting a true experiment (to see if using small goals that align with your purpose will improve your grit) compared to your study described above
