Teachers Instructions:
For the project, each group must come up with a research proposal for a forensic psychology topic. The research proposal should include a description of a forensic psychology study including a distinct psychological topic and a distinct legal topic. For this project, students should describe in detail, the research question, background research on this topic (at least three journal references), the hypothesis, an independent variable, a dependent variable, the target sample and population, data collection methods, data collection procedure, a description of the study design (experimental, correlational, quasi-experimental, survey, archival, content analysis, etc.), and the proposed statistical analysis. Each project should include a title page with the authors’ (students) names and the title of the project. The document should be 3-4 pages in length (not including title page or reference page) and should be in APA format (12 pt. Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins, double-spaced, etc.).

Grading Rubric:

Research question and hypothesis 25%
Overall content of background information 10%
Study design and description 50%
Organization 10%
Formatting 5%
Total 100%