EDU 508 ASSIGNMENT 1

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Assignment 1: The Scavenger Hunt

Due Week 3 and worth 100 points

Let’s put your investigative skills to work! In this assignment, visit the Strayer online library located in iCampus or the Resource Center tab in Blackboard and find four (4) peer-reviewed quantitative or qualitative articles related to your topic. Read each article.

Write a five (5) page paper in which you:

  1. Summarize each article [approximately one to two (1-2) paragraphs per article] and identify the:
    1. Purpose of the research.
    2. Problem statement.
    3. Gaps in literature that studied the problem.
    4. Research question and/or hypotheses.
    5. Theory or conceptual framework.
    6. Findings of the research.
  2. Describe two (2) aspects of each article that are relevant to the research topic you have chosen.
  3. Provide a preliminary reference page in APA format of the articles you summarized.
  4. Include at least four (4) peer-reviewed quantitative or qualitative articles related to your topic.

1. Summarize each article and identify the purpose of the research, problem statement, gaps in literature that studied the problem, research question and/or hypotheses, theory or conceptual framework, and findings of the research.(Thoroughly summarized each article and identified the purpose of the research, problem statement, gaps in literature that studied the problem, research question and/or hypotheses, theory or conceptual framework, and findings of the research.)

2. Describe one to two (1-2) aspects of each article that are relevant to the research topic you have chosen.
Weight: 30%(Thoroughly described one to two (1-2) aspects of each article that are relevant to the research topic you have chosen.)

3. 4 references 

Weight: 5%(Meets number of required references; all references high quality choices.)

5. Appropriate use of APA in-text citations and reference section

Weight: 5%(In-text citations and references are error free or almost error free and consistently formatted correctly in APA style.)

6. Information Literacy / Integration of Sources

Weight: 5%(Sources are consistently integrated using effective techniques of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.)

7. Clarity and Coherence of Writing

Weight: 5%(Information is provided in a clear, coherent, and consistent manner with reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.)

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