Sexual Assault On College Campuses

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The purpose of my research study is to evaluate sexual assault on university campuses and to determine the number of sexual assault that occurs on those campuses. The experimental design that I will use in this research study is a classical experimental design.
Sampling
The population of my study is college students in the United States. I will narrow my population to a sample of four universities in the state of Oklahoma. The four universities are: University of Central Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma University, and Oklahoma City University. I will select my participants from a list of students from admissions. I will also contact the office of Greek Affairs for the list of the universities Greek Life fraternities and sororities. The type of
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Students may have been sexually assaulted but did not report. I will conduct a stratification disproportionate sampling on first year freshmen ages 17 to 19. I believe this specific group is more likely not to report sexual assault that occurs on campus.
Data Collection
There are many avenues to collect data from participants. I will be conducting a longitudinal study. I will conduct surveys or focus groups with participant at the beginning and ending of the fall semester and the beginning and ending of the spring semester.
To gather information from the admissions office I will send a letter or email to each office explaining why I need a list of names of the students. I will explain the purpose of my research, and my goal of the project. Once, I have received the list of students and narrowed my population I will send a letters and emails to those that have been chosen. I will let them know that I am conducting a survey about sexual assault on college campus. I will send out the survey through email or other wise noted. I will send a follow-up email reminding the participants about the