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Topic: Planning Template (Extended Essay)

SY 2021-2022

Handout

Name :
Class :
Date :
Duration : n.a.

Instructions
 Complete this planning template
 One planning template is associated with one research question
 Related: you must complete and submit this template twice: once for your plan A, and
once for your plan B.
 Your Plan A and Plan B must allow for a different EE-supervisor

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Topic: Planning Template (Extended Essay)
SY 2021-2022

Plan ……….. (A or B)

Topic

Research Question

Possible Subject
and EE-Supervisor

Theoretical
Concepts

Which pieces of
theory/theoretical
concepts would you
need to find an
answer to your
research question?

Anticipated Anticipated Challenges Possible Solutions

Challenges
(Theoretical
Framework)

Which challenges do
you expect while
doing your literature
research? How do
you expect to
address these?

Data Collection Measurements Tool(s)

What ‘things’

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Topic: Planning Template (Extended Essay)
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(quantities/concepts)
would you need to
‘measured’?
(‘happiness’,
‘wealth’, ‘profit’,
‘electric current’ etc.)

Which tool(s) would

you need to do
these
‘measurements’?
(‘survey’, ‘interview’,
‘voltmeter’ etc.)

Anticipated Anticipated Challenges Possible Solutions

Challenges Data (Uncertainties)
Collection

Which challenges do
you anticipate while
collecting data?

Data Analysis Anticipated Challenges Possible Solutions

Which challenges
would you expect to

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Topic: Planning Template (Extended Essay)
SY 2021-2022

encounter when you

will try to ‘analyse’
and ‘make sense’ of
the data you have
collected?
(mathematical
skills? Data
Analysis? Statistical
analysis? Drawing
inferences?)

Other Anticipated Anticipated Challenges Possible Solutions

Challenges

Other challenges
you could anticipate
(e.g. citing sources,
report writing,
making
graphs/charts, etc)

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