Category: Research methods

PART I:  Explain how sampling design, inferential statistics, and generalization work 
together to form the foundation of quantitative research. Discuss the advantages, limitations, and 
researcher considerations when using a qualitative methodological research strategy.
PART II: Compare and contrast the four levels of scale measurement. 

1. Find a peer-reviewed, published meta-analysis article on
a counseling related topic.
2. Discuss effect sizes, summary effect, and interpretation.
3. Provide an APA style reference for the article you found.

title
Abstract
introduction
-background
– Operational definition
Literature review
-Use at least 10 peer reviewed articles
starting with most recent articles and then backward describe findings and conclusions (group the articles by themes)
what’s Knowns & Gap: Based on the Literature review identify what is known & Gaps
purpose and significance of the study
research question and Hypotheses (H1,Ho1, H2, Ho2)
Methodology (research design such as descriptive, cross-sectional, correlation) sampling (convenience, snow ball)
Overall Summary
Reference
APA style

Look at files for more instructions. More instructions will be forwarded. All the assignemnts are similar.

Assignment:
When reading through different dissertations, it is apparent that the literature review chapter contains the foundational knowledge that will help to support every other chapter in the book. Without a well-developed and concisely written document, all of the dissertation components would soon fall apart or not align well enough to facilitate the reader’s transitioning and understanding.
One way to build an excellent literature review is to visually see how it is constructed and supported. This assignment will help you observe how the different sections of a literature section can be tied together to make sense to the reader.
Research and understand the way that mind mapping can reflect the internal reviews of important literature topics using an outside format. You will do this by viewing the suggested online resources and/or find some of your own mind mapping resources to help your understanding.
Now, re-read the literature review of the dissertation you selected. Use this dissertation as an example for you to analyze, dissect, and examine. Identify the many subtopics/headings used to cover all the information expressed 
You will create your mind map of the literature review of the dissertation you selected using the suggested online tools (30-day free option).
Next, you will discuss how you created this map and how it can visually take the reviewer from the very broad understanding of information all the way down to the very minute pieces, some of which may not affect the study, but you felt it had to be listed. Explain what you would consider the significant portions of the literature review and how they help to support the overall topic for the study.
The final portion of the paper will discuss how this activity of creating a Mind Map for the dissertation you selected helped you to better understand the flow of information and how you will use this strategy to develop the outline for your literature review once you reach the dissertation courses at the end of your program. Use the rubric for this assignment to ensure you have included all necessary information.
Follow APA writing style guidelines for this assignment. In addition to the Mind Map diagram, the paper should be 1000-1250 words. Use headings to mark the specific sections in your paper. The title page and reference pages do not count towards the minimum word count. Include at least two (2) credible citations for your ideas and reflections

In a 1-2 page paper, please answer the following prompts:
1.) Explain the difference between sexual and asexual reproduction in Microbiology terms.
2.) How does the difference between these two impact genetic diversity?
Assignment Expectations for Grading:  
1. Demonstration of critical thinking and ability to connect and apply the material .
2. Comprehensiveness and completeness of your responses.
3. Adherence to the written instructions.
4. Spelling and grammar.
5. Provide 3-5 APA Style References to support your paper. 

Guidelines:
Typewritten in 12 Point Font
Double-Spaced
1 Inch Margins, Footers, and Headers
1250 – 1750 Words Double-Spaced Pages (No Less)
(Note: Bibliographies do not count toward your word count)
Your third and final writing assignment this semester is to composed of two parts. First, you must prepare a Methodology/Research Design. From there, you will draw from your previously submitted work to assemble your Final Research Proposal. Below are instructions for completing both parts of the assignment.
Methodology/Research Design
Writing a Methodology/Research Design is fairly straightforward – especially if you’ve been keeping pace with your other writing assignments.Methodologies/Research Designs typically do the following:  1) Clearly define your research question; 2) Explain how you plan to answer that question; and 3) Discuss potential research findings and the implications of those findings.  Simply put, your Methodology/Research Design is your opportunity to tell the social scientific community what you plan to study, how you plan to study it, what you hope to find, and why that’s significant. 
A good Methodology/Research Design will do the following:
Provide a clear, concise research question with readily apparent dependent, independent, and control variables.  This also entails explaining how you plan to “operationalize” (or measure) your variables and why you chose that particular strategy.  You should also make clear how your research question relates to or is in dialogue with the information contained in your Literature Review. 
Offer a discernible and repeatable strategy for investigating your proposed research question.  Specifically, you need to explain precisely how you plan to obtain the data necessary to successfully answer your research question.  This includes identifying your sample population and explaining why that group of people is an ideal population of study.  You also need to explain how you plan to gain access to this population and whether you plan to disclose the true nature of your study to research participants.  What is your ideal/target sample size?  Why?  What methods do you plan to use to study your population of interest?  Qualitative or Quantitative?  If Qualitative, what kind(s) and why?  If Quantitative, what kind(s) and why?  And last, discuss what information you seek to extract from research participants over the course of your study.  How does your preferred research method help you to achieve that goal?
Discuss your anticipated research findings and the significance of those findings to the social scientific research community.  To successfully to do this, you should provide a minimum of two hypotheses or informed predictions about what you might find/discover as part of this research.  It is also necessary that you explain the underlying logic behind your hypotheses – i.e. what’s your reasoning for making that prediction.  Last, you should explain the implications/significance of testing these hypotheses and what it means should they prove correct or are falsified.    
Final Research Proposal
For those of you who have successfully kept pace with the readings and other writing assignments in this class, this last step should be fairly painless.  Your Final Research Proposal requires very little new written work from you.  Quite simply it is a compilation of the best parts of your previous work that when put together forms a cogent plan of attack for investigating your research question. 
Your Final Research Proposal should provide the following:
AN INTRODUCTION TO YOUR PROPOSED RESEARCH TOPIC AND QUESTION. This section of your paper is your opportunity to tell your reader what you are interested in studying, why it is an important topic of study (to the research community and beyond), and more importantly, the specific question you plan to investigate.  (Please note that if there is any new writing to be done in this assignment, it is generally in this section of your paper.  I recommend drawing from you Field Statement and the first part of your Research Design/Methodology to create this part of your proposal).    
A FORMAL LITERATURE REVIEW.  Your Literature Review should provide your reader with a more in-depth understanding of prior research on your topic and more importantly, where this research is lacking.  For the most part, you should be able to transplant your previously prepared Literature Review directly into your Research Proposal.  That said, I recommend that you do your best to tighten things up so that your new Literature Review only provides the most pertinent information – i.e. focuses on what prior research has concluded, what that means for your proposed study, and why it makes your proposed study necessary. 
A RESEARCH DESIGN/METHODOLOGY. This section of your Research Proposal draws from the first part of the assignment (outlined above).Again, a Research Design/Methodology tells your reader how you plan to go about answering your proposed research question.  Here you will want to identify your proposed population of study (and control group) and explain to your reader how you plan to access that population.  Additionally, you will want to share with your reader what kind of data you hope to collect (Qualitative and/or Quantitative), as well as whether you plan to use pre-existing data (please try to identify a data set) or plan to collect your own data.  If you plan to collect your own data what means will you use to collect it?  Why is this method ideal for answering your proposed research question? 
A CONCLUSION/DISCUSSION OF IMPLICATIONS.  The final section of your Research Proposal should mirror the final section of your Research Design/Methodology.  Your goal is to provide your reader with a few informed predictions about what you might find/discover as part of this research project.  It is also to explain the underlying logic behind your predictions – i.e. what’s your reasoning.  Last, you should explain the implications/significance of this research.  Why is it important to test your predictions?  How might we apply your research findings?
As always, don’t forget to provide a thesis statement.  You are the expert now and it is your job to SELL your proposed research to your reader.  You need to make clear what the overall purpose of your work is.  The best way to do that is to be direct and provide a clear thesis/statement of purpose early in your paper.
Additionally, I recommend that you not simply cut and paste the pieces of your previous work together.  You want your Research Proposal to read as though it is one continuous piece of writing and not some “patchwork” of information.  As such, I suggest that you focus on developing a narrative that weaves all of your previous written work together to form a cogent, well-reasoned, and persuasive whole.       
Last, remember to keep things simple.  You know this stuff.  You’re the expert.  Now is the opportunity for you to be the teacher and explain why your research is important. 
If you have any problems, questions, or concerns please come see me during office hours or send me an e-mail.
The following content is partner provided

I have uploaded the research which include introduction,  litreture,
Theoretical analysis sections.
The required is below:
Build an interview questionare, you can take examples from the uploaded articles, and Fill the three  words file below:
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After the doctor approved the questions, I will place a new order  to build the methodology which is inductive/ Interpretivism. to justify why I want to collect data, after this chapter comes the analysis and discussion chapter and then finally conlusion and recommendation .

hello I did my proposal paper and unfortunately, i failed because the professor didn’t like it with a lot of error coherence and some short parts needed to be added. i need top quality fixing my paper to resubmit it again with a good mark 

Add 3 faculty of interest to your list of 2, from Week 6, to make a total of 5 faculty (you can keep the 2 you researched last week or find new faculty, and you can use faculty from other campuses that you might consider working at for undergraduate research). Find ONE published work, from the past 2 years, by each professor, this could be a technical article, review article, book, etc. Create a bibliography that includes full citations (includes titles of the work, author, year, vol, pages etc.)–so you will have a bibliography of FIVE references.  Bold the name of the professor in each reference listed.  You can use your favorite citation manager to create the bibliography, include the name of citation manager you used at the end of the bibliography. Format your bibliography similar to the following reference (it is the inclusion of all the information that matters, not the exact format style, you may use any approved style such as MLA, APA etc):
Robertson, Judy, (+ full author list). “Children’s Interactions with Animated Agents in an Intelligent Tutoring System.” International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, vol. 14, no. 3-4, 2004, pp. 335-357. IOS Press.  http://content.iospress.com/articles/international-journal-of-artificial-intelligence-in-education/jai14-3-4-05Links to an external site.Links to an external site..
Choose ONE of the references that you find the most interesting and write a <1 page, 1" margins, Arial 11 pt, single spaced reflection that includes, IN YOUR OWN WORDS:  Is the journal, book, etc. from a reliable publisher—what is your basis for this assessment? Give specific details on what evidence you found to evaluate the reputation of the journal reliability. Provide at least 2 types of evidence. Why were you drawn to this particular project? Describe what aspects appeal to you (e.g. relation to society, type of methods used, disease/cause you care about etc.) and why you feel strongly about them. Reflect on why you might gain if you worked on this project, e.g. what about it seems like it would be fulfilling, advance your career goals, etc.? How difficult is the paper to read, what aspects of it are most challenging? What additional training would you need to be able to understand the paper in full? Or if you have no problem reading it, what prior preparation allowed you to understand the content? List your answers to each question #1-3 so that they are easy to identify (i.e. not one long narrative but 3 separate sections--one for each numbered item). Submit as a .doc or .docx file. DO NOT PLAGIARIZE IN ANY FORM.  If you have a reference that you do not understand, use a different reference. If you cannot understand any of a professor's references, choose a different professor. Remember, these are potential professors you might like to work for. If you absolutely cannot understand any of their writings, they may not be the best choice of a place to work! Atleast not right now at your current level of knowledge. If any evidence of plagiarism is found, EVEN HALF A SENTENCE, you will receive a zero on the assignment and referral to SJA. If you are not sure what counts as plagiarism, review the video from the Course Basics module and the readings on plagiarism. If any part of your work partly copies a published work, including the internet, that is plagiarism.  Do not use inappropriate quoting to substitute for putting things in your own words. Big Tip for avoiding plagiarism: Read the source material, put it away, and write from your understanding of the material in your own words.