I found a sample proposal from Florida International University. There is a note on this proposal sample that is based off of a funded proposal, but has little resemblance to the actual proposal. I thought this sample was useful to look at because I believe it is similar to the ones we will be submitting for our projects. This proposal is aimed at the emotional, behavioral, and academic adaptation of immigrant elementary, middle, and high school students in relation to their post-immigration stress and social support. The anticipated results of this study are that high levels of social stress and low levels of social support following migration are to be associated with poorer adaptation. Since the research is using school-aged children, they covered appropriate measures to ensure guardians are informed and consent of the research and the children’s identity is concealed. The research will use the Children’s Convoy Mapping Procedure to collect social support information, “a checklist of stressful life events adapted from Johnson” to collect general family info, scales developed by Gil and Vega (1996) to measure acculturative conflict, and perceived discrimination, Children’s Depression Inventory-Short Form (CDI-S) (Kovacs, 1985), and the Harter (1985) Self-Perception Profile to collect adjustment measures information, and grade reports and standardized achievement test scores to measure the children’s achievement. Once the data is collected the researcher will use a multiple regression analysis to try to prove their hypothesis, that higher levels of family stress and lower levels of social support will be associated with poorer adjustment.

This proposal was very interesting and could add much needed information about U.S. child immigrants and their achievements in schools. While this proposal is an example and extremely useful for us to look at, I do not believe this example proposal would be funded or accepted by the IRB since it is short and lacks some information. The proposal does not mention the specific site the research will be taken from. The proposal also mentions several ways of measuring data that is not described in the proposal. Overall this example proposal is extremely useful for reference when practicing writing research proposals but would also need more substance if it were to actually be funded or accepted by the IRB.

http://www2.fiu.edu/~levittmj/Sample%20Proposal.pdf