Signature Project + Major Assignment (A+ Required)

ED 504

Techniques of Educational Research

Major Assignment 2 Template

SP20 OL1

Major Assignment 2 Template: Review of Literature

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You will conduct a literature review, following APA format (most recent published editions), and become familiar with the scholarly debate surrounding your topic, and what scholars and practitioners say about the best way to address the particular need or problem identified through the data analysis.

OBJECTIVE: Reviewing and writing a Review of Literature on your chosen topic for the purpose of completing UWA’s Signature Project Stage 1 assignment.

RESPOND TO THE FOLLOWING PROMPTS:

1. Provide a brief overview of the problem and need that was presented in Major Assignment 1.

2. Restate your problem statement and purpose statement. Provide a developed statement of the research problem that demonstrates a sound and focused understanding of the identified problem.

3. Identify best practice(s) that will be used to address the problem or weakness. This should be a theorist or theory that is known and documented in the research literature.

4. Describe a trend/theory that will be used to justify the use of the identified best practice(s) and clearly highlight the connection with the identified trend/theory to address the problem.

5. Include content from the literature reviewed that supports the identified best practices as viable responses to the problem/weakness identified.

6. Describe how the literature reviewed connects the identified theory/trend with all identified best practices.

7. Justify a theory or trend that is related to the problem or weakness.

8. Include summaries of the sources reviewed.

9. Include a minimum of 10 sources (largely representative of the most recent five years) to describe/justify the best practice and/or theory identified.

10.Include only sources in the review of literature that show clear connections with the best practice(s) and/or theory/trend identified as viable responses to the problem/weakness presented.

11.Conclude the chapter with a synthesis of the literature and how it justifies the need for study.