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Other possibilities for research ideas include past honors theses or even masters’ theses in your department. Unpublished honors theses and published research are similar in that they typically include a section dealing with limitations of the study or directions for future research. These theses are also a useful source of measures and scales (see Chapter 5) because such projects typically require that appendices include all items in the measures, which is not common in published research.

Your department may have research groups run by professors. Attending these groups is beneficial—in particular, hearing about other people’s research and the suggestions made to improve it. Because being part of such a group reflects initiative, this experience is useful in graduate school applications. Research experience is highly valued in evaluating candidates for graduate school. Aside from graduate study, potential employers are impressed by this initiative as well; it may set you apart.