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EDD8040: Research Design for Practitioners

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Introduction to the Area of Interest

Describe the organizational or professional improvement area of interest that you identified in your u02a1assignment and for which you conducted your library searches throughout the course. To complete this section, provide the background and context for your area of interest, which potentially can serve as the problem of practice for which you develop your Applied Improvement Project (AIP). What needs improving and why does it need improving? Provide an explanation of why you chose this particular area of interest.

Describe why this organizational issue or professional improvement area of interest is of significant interest to you. This section is the only section that you can write in the first-person voice. The remainder of the assignment must be written in the third person voice. Describe how locating and reviewing related studies regarding your area of interest throughout the course might potentially serve as the basis for your Applied Improvement Project (AIP) or relate to our potential AIP.

Evaluation of Findings

Briefly explain that the following sections will reflect an analysis and evaluation of the six studies. Explain that the content of the studies will be compared for similarities and differences. Explain that the three methodologies, quantitative, qualitative, and action research will be analyzed, and the six studies’ methodologies will be compared for similarities and differences. Explain that you will conclude by describing practical applications that emerged from your understanding of the six studies. In this section and the sections below do not summarize each article and its findings. Instead, evaluate the findings from all six studies. When you evaluate, you are making judgments are the merit, worth and value of the object of evaluation. When referring to a study follow APA writing format and use the authors’ last names and year of publication and present the study with past tense verbs (see APA 6th ed. p. p. 78 or APA 7th ed. pp. 117-118 section 4.12 Verb Tense).

In the sections below ensure that you are explicitly comparing action research to the two methodologies. One option is to conclude each of the two sections below by comparing similarities and differences between action research and the other two methodologies. Ensure your make connections between your analysis and synthesis and practical applications. Support your arguments and assertions through the use of examples and resources.

Content Similarities

Discuss the similarities among the findings that emerged from the studies about your chosen issue. Do not summarize each article and its findings. Rather, consider and evaluate the findings from all six studies. In this section answer and address the following questions:

Are there similarities, related findings, or themes in some of the studies that can be identified from an evaluation of all six studies’ findings?

Do some of the findings complement each other? How so?

Content Differences

Discuss the differences among the findings that emerged from the studies about your chosen issue. Do not summarize each article and its findings. Rather, consider and evaluate the findings from all six studies. In this section answer and address the following questions:

How were the findings different given different methodological approaches?

Do any of the studies’ findings contradict or appear inconsistent with another study’s findings? Or does each study provide a unique set of findings?

Discussion of Methods

Analysis of Research Principles

In this second section of your literature review, discuss the three methodological approaches represented in your six studies. In this section you will analyze principles of quantitative, qualitative, and action research methodologies in general through briefly addressing the following:

Describe the types of purposes best suited to each methodology.

Describe the types of problems each method is best suited to study.

Describe the types of research questions each methodology is best suited to employ.

Which data sources and collection methods are best suited to each methodology?

Describe the types of findings each methodology might be expected to produce.

Describe the validity concerns unique to each methodology.

How did difference methodological approaches impact the findings?

Provide examples to support your claims or assertions.

Methodological Similarities

In this section compare methodologies used in your two quantitative studies and your two qualitative studies to your two action research studies. What similarities (in sampling, data collection, data analysis, and reporting) did your two qualitative studies have to your two action research studies? What similarities (in sampling, data collection, data analysis, and reporting) did your two quantitative studies have to your two action research studies? This section can be brief. Conclude with at least one practical application. For example, you might describe your potential approach to data collection, data analysis, and reporting that might be used in a proposed action research study related to your area of interest.

Methodological Differences

In this section compare methodologies used in the quantitative and qualitative studies to the two action research studies. What differences (in sampling, data collection, data analysis, and reporting) did you identify between the two qualitative studies and your two action research studies? What differences (in sampling, data collection, data analysis, and reporting) did you identify between your two quantitative studies and your two action research studies? This section can be brief. Conclude with a practical application. For example, what methodological decisions might you need to make in proposing an action research study to improve the organizational issue or process that is of interest to you. Synthesize an intervention from the six studies?

Discussion/Conclusion

Provide a discussion/conclusion to your evaluation of research findings. In this section in addition to drawing a conclusion regarding your six studies, address the following:

What practical applications emerged from the six studies? Provide one or more examples of how the most important practical application or intervention could be applied to your organizational issue or process. Keep in mind that practical applications mean applications applied to practice by practitioners. Include, if you like, a discussion of practical applications you learned from the six studies that other practitioners might apply in their practices. These prompts require applications for practitioners not researchers.

References

References go on a separate page. Ensure references are in the hanging indent format and are properly APA formatted; refer to APA Publication Manual 6th edition (2010) Chapter 7 for guidance and examples. Please remove these instructions before posting and write your sections in black font.