1. Sociological Investigation

2. 1,000,000 teenagers become pregnant each year
15 Quest Fields – all seats full

3. How can we (or the Gov.) reduce teen pregnancies?

4. What questions an we ask?
What factors are related to teen pregnancies?
What is the effect of the mother of teen pregnancies?
What would be the most effective contraceptive distribution method in schools?
What problems would arise with contraceptive distribution?

5. The problem
Reducing teen pregnancies

6. Survey of the literature

7. Theoretical basis of the study.

8. Hypothesis

9. Variables? Dependent variables? Independent variables?
Operational definitions?
Measurement of variables
Reliability
Validity

10. Objectivity

11. Replication

12. Sample Representative sample Biased sample Random sample
Simple
Stratified
Self selected sample

13. What type of research design should we use?
Surveys
Observational designs
Experiments

14. Survey design Closed ended questions? Open ended questions?
Criteria for good questions?

15. How would we administer the survey?

16. Analysis of the results
Statistical analysis
Correlation
Causation