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Six Project Steps for Faculty
Your CBR research project will involve the following:
- Contact Pat Price with your project idea.
- Meet with the community partner and CCDSJ
- Discuss research ideas & possible methods
- Discuss partner and CCDSJ roles
- Identify research question(s)
- Set next meeting
- Design research process
- Determine needs of community partner
- Determine how the study’s results will be used - this is your project compass
- Determine the project start date and goal date for completion
- Determine the research methods to be used, materials needed, research instruments, other resources needed
- Fill out the Project Development and Overview Form
- Determine if IRB needs to approve the study (exempt, expedited, or full review)
- Work with partner to collect and analyze data
- Write study results
- Interpret results
- Include recommendations for how the results can be used most effectively
- Include an Abstract or Executive Summary
- Present a draft to the community partner for editing and final input (if not composing together)
- Present the study results
