Analyzing Spatio-Physical Characteristics of Brisbane Households for Guardianship in Action

Assessment 2
Due By: 12.00pm (Midday) Monday April 8th (Week 7)
Weighting: 20%
Instructions: You need to complete the following request set by a fictitious absent-
minded professor. You can find the dataset on the course website in the
course Assessments area. You need to provide the Data and Methods
paragraphs only. Your assessment must be submitted through Turnitin
and must follow the writing guidelines prescribed by the American
Psychological Association (6th edn).
“Dear student,
You’ve done a great job thus far on your honours project! Well done! Investigating how
guardianship behaviors (i.e., guardianship in action or GIA) might be influenced by various
spatio-physical factors in the environment is an area of routine activities theory that has
received limited attention from the academic community. You really are breaking new
ground!
Now that you’re finished collecting data from field observations, you need to begin analysing
your data. However, before you get in over your head, I would like to make sure that you have
a firm understanding of how to choose the correct statistical method for analysing your data,
so there are two paragraphs that I would like you to write and submit to me prior to our next
supervision meeting.
First, I would like for you to compose a Data paragraph that describes the information that
you collected from the 300 suburban Brisbane households observed during your fieldwork.
Since you helped Professor Hupplestick prepare her recent journal article, you should already
be well versed in writing this section, so I don’t need to explain this to you.
The second paragraph that you need to complete is a Methods section. This section should
explain which statistical technique you think should be used to analyse your data, and why.
Remember, your research question focuses on determining whether there are significant
associations between spatio-physical characteristics of Brisbane households and guardianship
in action. In other words, don’t worry about making predictions with your data yet. Instead,
tell me how you would go about analysing your data in order to identify associations.
Remember, a higher GIA score indicates higher observed guardianship in action.
I’ve run some analyses myself but I’m not going to provide you with the results or
conclusions based on these findings because I want you to come up with the correct statistical
method on your own. In addition, make sure all of your writing is consistent with APA 6
guidelines. Your thesis must follow APA style, so it’s worthwhile practicing every chance
you get.
Remember, you need to submit the two paragraphs to me by 12.00pm (Midday) on Monday,
April 8th (Week 7) in order for me to have sufficient time to review what you’ve done before
our next meeting!

Keep up the good work....
Professor Emma Mayor”