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Six Project Steps for Faculty

Your CBR research project will involve the following:

  1. Contact Pat Price with your project idea.
  2. Meet with the community partner and CCDSJ
    • Discuss research ideas & possible methods
    • Discuss partner and CCDSJ roles
    • Identify research question(s)
    • Set next meeting
  3. 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)
  4. Work with partner to collect and analyze data
  5. Write study results
    1. Interpret results
    2. Include recommendations for how the results can be used most effectively
    3. Include an Abstract or Executive Summary
    4. Present a draft to the community partner for editing and final input (if not composing together)
  6. Present the study results