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…

Recall, from our discussion, that groupthink “occurs when group members reason that they cannot be wrong and reject any argument contrary to their own—rejecting criticism from internal members and criticism from people in out-groups” (Janis and Mann, 1977). Furthermore, Janis and Mann identified 8 symptoms of groupthink: An illusion of invulnerability Collective efforts to rationalize…

  Please consider the following prompt and craft a response that sufficiently captures all aspects of it from your unique point of view and original research. Please cite and reference any source(s) you use to help write this response in APA format. Notice that in addition to your Main Entry post, you will need to…