• Encourage faculty members with an interest in research to consider working with a University-based research consultant to conduct a smaller project;
• Present a brief history of a continuing collaboration that has so far resulted in two well-received platform presentations at national conferences (ACC-RAC 2002 and ICSM 2002).

The time will be spent encouraging faculty members to consider designing and conducting a brief research project to answer important and, as yet unanswered, research questions.

• Northwestern Health Science University’s Developmental Assessment: asking the right research questions, identifying measures, data collection and key entry, statistical analysis, to scientific reporting
• The research consultant as an assistant to the faculty “principal investigator”
• Research designs depend on the development of the theory and available measures: observational to experimental designs
• Getting started: developing research questions, then decide which questions are answerable, discuss possible designs with the consultant, and decide if you can proceed, at least tentatively, with the project
• The main goal today is for you to know how to get started and what is involved in conducting a smaller project before you tell yourself: “I can’t do that.”
• Questions and comments!