Review and integrate the feedback received on your example research elements submitted as Week 3 through Week 7 assignments.

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Development of Research Foundations

In Weeks 1-7 of this course, you developed the foundational research elements required for the initial steps in a research study. Note that these same foundational research elements will also be used as components for a dissertation study.

In this two-part assignment, you will:

  1. Develop a research paper by adding      background and contribution to knowledge sections to your      existing foundational research elements document, and:
  2. Reflect on the SPL model discussions throughout the      first four courses of your program to convey how the SPL model      provides structure for your proposed research.

Part A: Research Foundations Paper (15 points)

Review and integrate the feedback received on your example research elements submitted as Week 3 through Week 7 assignments. Ensure each of your elements is aligned, and make revisions as necessary.

Add a background section and a contribution to knowledge section to your culminating research paper. The background section should provide an overview of the topic, and the contribution to knowledge section should describe your study’s potential contributions to the body of literature. Lay your document out using the following outline:

  • Background
  • Problem Statement
  • Purpose
  • Contribution to Knowledge
  • Research Questions
  • Theoretical or Conceptual      Framework

Part B: Reflecting on the SPL Model (5 points)

Reflect on the SPL model discussions throughout the ACCESS sequence (DOC/700, LDR/711A, and DOC/705r).

Develop a 500- to 700-word addendum to your a research foundations paper that conveys how the SPL model provides structure for your proposed study. Discuss specific moments of learning that occurred during DOC/700, LDR/711A, and DOC/705r that underlie your reflections.

why do men typically pay for expenses on a date

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  When it comes to women rarely proposing marriage to a partner you can look at it in the social perspective that it has always been the man throughout the centuries proposing to women. It is the social norm for the man to propose.

You can look at it in the Evolutionary perspective that again it has always been the man who proposes first, it was almost looked down upon and thought wrong or weird for a woman to propose. You can also look at if from the social learning perspective of that is how women were taught, was that a man proposes to a woman. Women have grown to watch men propose to women and because of the social norm, they don’t often see women doing the proposing unless it is in a same-sex relationship. Men, over the years, have always seemed to be the ones to take charge and take control and have the first say, so to speak, when it comes to big decisions so when looking at it in the social cognitive perspective women have paid attention and tend to wait for the man to propose first

. Over the years though, woman have become stronger and more of a take-charge behavior, so they are beginning to propose more but still not nearly as much as men.

2.    I chose to answer the question, why do men typically pay for expenses on a date.  From a sociocultural perspective, which involves behaviors from the group level, historically, men pay for their dates.  If we examine this question from an evolutionary perspective, perhaps we still have instincts that make us want to provide for our mate, so paying for the date would be a natural progression of that.

Probably the reason men pay for expenses on a date relates to the social learning perspective, which says that our past experiences determine our social behaviors.  So perhaps our fathers taught us lessons of chivalry or how things were done when he was your age.   The final perspective is the social cognitive perspective. Probably in this approach, we decide which actions will be more beneficial socially, so if we chose to pay the expenses for a date, we might increase our chances of going on a future date.

Explain how      you might conceive these variables to be used to answer a social change      question. What might be the implications for social change?

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Quantitative research consists of testing and understanding relationships between variables. Researchers construct these variables as measureable expressions of social phenomena. Modern statistics provides you with a host of resources to answer questions, but each statistical test has a set of assumptions regarding the measurement of the variables. It is therefore important to understand how variables are measured because their measurement will influence the type of analytic tools available to you.

SPSS is a statistical software program that allows you to enter these variables into a spreadsheet format and record the measurements from a sample. Additionally, SPSS allows you to perform statistical analysis. Before launching into your analyses, though, it is important to understand how the variables are measured. That understanding will help you interpret the SPSS output.

In this week’s Discussion, you considered topics with social change implications. For this Assignment, you will examine data to analyze independent and dependent variables, determine how they are measured, and decipher whether a social change question can be answered and the implications for such change.

To prepare for this Assignment:

  • Review the      Learning Resources as well as the SPSS resources found in this week’s      Learning Resources.
  • Review,      download, and install the SPSS software on your computer using the IBM      SPSS Installation and Registration document for PC or for MAC in this      week’s Learning Resources.
  • Using the      SPSS software, open the Afrobarometer dataset or the High School      Longitudinal Study dataset (whichever you choose) found in this week’s      Learning Resources and then choose two variables that interest you.

For this Assignment:

Write a 1- to 2-page summary and include the following:

  • A description      of what the each of the variables measure.
  • A description      of the unit of analysis.
  • A description      and explanation of the levels of measurement for each variable (i.e.,      nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio).
  • Explain how      you might conceive these variables to be used to answer a social change      question. What might be the implications for social change?

Support your summary using appropriate scholarly citations and references. Use proper APA format.

Determined at least three developmental needs for the organization emerging from the data.

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Data Gathering Plan

Week 2 Assignment:

Building on last week’s initial scouting work, this week you will design a data gathering process for verifying, contradicting, or otherwise clarifying some of your observations and conclusions in last week’s scouting memo (e.g., Does your organization develop people? Why/why not?). Data can be gathered through a variety of methods including interviews, observations, group discussions, and questionnaires.

Your “big question” for this week is what are the individual,  team, and leadership development needs? In other words, how could your organization improve its practices regarding individual, team, and leader development? What needs to change? 

Planning and Execution:

In this week’s work, you will build and implement a basic data gathering plan for the organization. In your plan, address the following themes

  • Who do you need to ask (to determine the individual, team, and leadership development needs)? 
  • What do you need to ask (what specific things do you need to ask to determine what needs to improve)? 
  • How will you ask (what methods will you use to ask)?
  • Your data gathering plan should include at least five questions (what you will ask) and at least two different methods (how you will ask them). 

After you have built your data gathering plan, implement at least some phase of it. You will likely not be able to implement your full plan (due to time restrictions). However, implement enough of your plan that you can gather some actual data to analyze. You may also include hypothetical data as needed to fill in some gaps. 

Deliverable:

Prepare a one diagnosis memo that accomplishes the following things: 

  • Reminds your readers about the organization you are working with (i.e., what is the organization?).
  • Summarizes what you needed to ask and who you needed to ask in your data gathering.
  • Provides at least five questions you asked
  • Indicates at least two different methods you used to gather data. 
  • Summarizes actual (and hypothetical as needed) data you gathered when you asked the questions using the methods you proposed.
  • Determined at least three developmental needs for the organization emerging from the data.