To prepare: Use the search strategies you learned in Week 3 to find two additional peer-reviewed articles that support your research problem. (Note: This will bring the total number of research articles you have found to eight.) Assignment: 2–3 pages, not including title page or references page(s) Using the Research Article Summaries document you began…

To prepare for this Discussion: There are “rules of thumb” that guide each qualitative approach. Review Patton’s chapter on sampling types, and study sampling strategies in research articles on the approach you have chosen. Review the articles on data saturation and theoretical saturation, and consider which criteria you will follow to estimate “how many.” Remember,…

To prepare: Review what you have learned about evaluating research articles in terms of their relationship to your discipline and to your proposed topic. Review the articles in your Research Articles Summaries and apply the evaluation questions to each one. You may need to reopen the article to do this. Review the video resources on…

Review all the postings and then reply to a classmate who has chosen the same approach as you. Consider their choices of sample size, criteria for inclusion and exclusion, sample size, saturation strategies, and ethics. What do you agree with? What would you do differently? 

Consider the following question: Is interview data an appropriate choice for your study? In-depth and semi-structured interviews explore the experiences of participants and the meanings the participants attribute to those experiences. Researchers encourage participants to talk about issues pertinent to the research question by asking open-ended questions, usually in one-on-one interviews. The interviewer might re-word,…

 How do I write 3 to 4 pages that: Describe a critical incident you have heard about in the news in the past year.  The critical incident being mass deportation in the State of CA. Using the Chaos Theory Model: Describe the theory. Justify why it is the best approach to your chosen crisis (mass…

How do I discuss how trauma is, and is not, affected by time. Consider how a crisis or traumatic event can affect an individual over time. How do I respond to the following: Myer and Moore (2006) cite Bronfenbrenner’s assertion that a crisis has “varying degrees of impact on an individual’s development, and this impact…

Respond to at least two of your colleagues’ posts (on different days) by suggesting any further steps they might take to identify the gap in the research literature related to their study. Note: Your responses to colleagues should be substantial (250 words minimum), supported with scholarly evidence from your research and/or the Learning Resources, and…

  Television and Aggression in Children Subscribe What does the research say about the effects of violent media on children?  How can we resolve this problem, other than eliminating it from our childrens' world?  For that matter, how can we eliminate it from our childrens' world?  Is it appropriate to eliminate it from our childrens'…

We have learned from extensive research that groups are subject to group polarization and groupthink. Group polarization happens when members of the group all come to accept a more extreme point of view. Groupthink occurs when group members reason that they cannot be wrong and reject any argument contrary to their own—rejecting criticism from internal…