Category: Research

Research skills that allow for the evaluation of relevance

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Identify scholarly evidence or support you can use in your own paper and to develop research skills that allow for the evaluation of relevance, accuracy, and quality of the source materials.

Based on this week’s readings and your own experience as an educator, identify a problem of practice related to one financial issue in education. Your problem of practice can be related specifically to K-12, higher education, or the field of education in general. Find five scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles from the past five years and create an annotated bibliography analyzing each article you find.

Start with a brief paragraph describing the problem of practice you have chosen a

Why it is essential that the researcher not cut corners

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In regard to quantitative research proposals, novice researchers often find it very challenging and tedious to explain in detail how the data will be analyzed and interpreted in their study. Explain why it is essential that the researcher not cut corners in this section of the proposal.

 

 

 

 

Research questions

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Even the most focused research question may contain within it a series of more fundamental and related questions. Once these are determined, the researcher must then determine the kinds of information necessary to answer them. In this assignment, you will identify how you would conduct your study of the best practice model you proposed earlier in the quarter. From there identify a series of evaluation questions which you would propose as an evaluation design. You will also begin to identify the kinds of data you will need, from whom you will gather it, and which methods you will apply to your proposed study.

For your research questions, identify what type of data you will collect in order to address your research question. You will be answering these questions:

Who will your participants be?
Is the data quantitative or qualitative in nature—should it be in the form of numbers or words?
What methods might you apply to glean the information that you seek?
What instruments, measures, or tools would you use in your study?
Also, identify how you would analyze the data that you collect. Will you be conducting statistical analyses of any kind? Or, will you be using coding and categorizing? Will you be using any computer software to assist with the analysis?
Finally, consider the results of the study. Who should know about these results? How will you present them?

Research questions

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Even the most focused research question may contain within it a series of more fundamental and related questions. Once these are determined, the researcher must then determine the kinds of information necessary to answer them. In this assignment, you will identify how you would conduct your study of the best practice model you proposed earlier in the quarter. From there identify a series of evaluation questions which you would propose as an evaluation design. You will also begin to identify the kinds of data you will need, from whom you will gather it, and which methods you will apply to your proposed study.

For your research questions, identify what type of data you will collect in order to address your research question. You will be answering these questions:

Who will your participants be?
Is the data quantitative or qualitative in nature—should it be in the form of numbers or words?
What methods might you apply to glean the information that you seek?
What instruments, measures, or tools would you use in your study?
Also, identify how you would analyze the data that you collect. Will you be conducting statistical analyses of any kind? Or, will you be using coding and categorizing? Will you be using any computer software to assist with the analysis?
Finally, consider the results of the study. Who should know about these results? How will you present them?

How research was used to show an area of improvement

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Research is increasingly becoming an important and expected activity within public safety agencies. In this discussion, you will conduct research to find specific examples of how research was used to show an area of improvement or that led to an improvement in practice. While searching for your examples, be certain to focus on at least 2 different institutional scenarios within the public safety system.

 

 

 

Frequently used probability distributions in biostatistics

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In this module, you have learned about two of the most frequently used probability distributions in biostatistics: the binomial and normal distributions. The binomial distribution and the normal distribution are similar in several ways. In fact, under certain conditions, the normal distribution is used to approximate the binomial. For your initial post, discuss the following three questions. Provide examples of data that follow each distribution to help illustrate your points.

What are the basic differences between the two distributions?
Under what circumstances do you think it works well to approximate the binomial using the normal, considering the differences?
Under what public health or medical circumstances would it be helpful to identify the probability of an event? Provide some real-life examples.

Researching about the experiences of homeless people in the United States

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A researcher based in Miami wants to learn about the experiences of homeless people in the United States by conducting interviews with them. He plans to conduct in-person interviews with the homeless people he samples. He is having trouble deciding how to draw a representative sample of homeless people because homeless people are difficult to find, often move from place to place, and are often cycled in and out of homelessness. The researcher has one year and a $5,000 grant with which to conduct his interviews.

Your task is to help this researcher.

1. What is the population he wants to generalize to?
2. What are possible sampling frames (sources) from which he can draw his sample?
3. What do you think would be a good/realistic sample size?
4. What sampling methods would you suggest he uses? Why?

 

Epistemological and methodological strengths of a design

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Having identified and developed a phenomenological inquiry problem statement, purpose statement, and research questions regarding the transition to independence of emancipated foster care youth and their self-esteem, what do you perceive are the epistemological and methodological strengths of this design for exploring the phenomenon of the study and answering the research questions? What are the epistemological and methodological limitations of the design for the same purpose?

Epistemological and methodological strengths of a design

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Having identified and developed a phenomenological inquiry problem statement, purpose statement, and research questions regarding the transition to independence of emancipated foster care youth and their self-esteem, what do you perceive are the epistemological and methodological strengths of this design for exploring the phenomenon of the study and answering the research questions? What are the epistemological and methodological limitations of the design for the same purpose?

Hypothesis Testing.

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Apex Sports is thinking about entering the golf ball market. The company will make a profit if its market share is more than 15%. A market survey indicates that 128 of 758 golf ball purchasers will buy an Apex Sports golf ball.

In your initial post, answer the following questions:

Is the market survey alone enough evidence to persuade Apex Sports to enter the golf ball market?

How would you use hypothesis testing to help you make your decision if you were Apex Sports management and you required 90% confidence in your market research results? Does hypothesis testing support or not support entering the golf ball market? Show all your work.

Besides the market survey results, what other considerations might enter your decision on whether to enter the golf ball market?

If Apex Sports decides to enter the golf ball market, what are their probabilities for success?