PSY 871274

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Section Introduction:

Quantitative research uses the scientific method to evaluate theories or problems by testing specific hypotheses involving the relationship among or the differences between variables.  The variables are measured using numerical data, allowing statistical procedures to be used for a mathematical analysis.  Many different quantitative designs exist within a basic or applied context to accurately address the purpose of the research and related research questions.

Non-Experimental (Non-Causal) Correlational Designs
A correlational design is one of the most often encountered non-experimental (non-causal) quantitative designs.  Within correlational designs, an actual experimental condition is non-existent; rather, relationships between variables are explored without a determination of causality.  These types of studies are meant to help researchers examine how two or more variables vary in conjunction with each other.  Correlational studies can help describe complex relationships among a myriad of variables and are often employed when attempting to determine how a change in one or more variables will co-vary with one or more other variables.  Within all correlational studies, causation cannot be assumed, regardless of how strong the correlational evidence. 

Quasi-Experimental (Non-Randomized) Designs
Quasi-experimental designs are one of the more commonly used quantitative designs, particularly within educational research, as true randomization is unavailable in schools.  Students are enrolled and staff are chosen to be employed in schools, thus eliminating the ability of the researcher to truly randomly choose participants.  Well-designed quasi-experimental designs can often demonstrate clear causal relationships between variables with the limited possibility of error, but lack the randomization required of a true experimental design eliciting even less potential for error.   

Experimental (Randomized) Designs
Randomization, or the random selection and assignment of participants based solely on chance, is the foundational element of experimental designs, reducing alternative explanations for the effects the researcher is measuring.  Random selection involves the procedure used to identify participants to be members of a sample, while random assignment involves the procedure used to assign identified participants to the various groups within a study.

Variety of Experimental Designs
A large number of experimental designs exist to address various research topics and corresponding hypotheses.  Three experimental designs commonly used in psychological research are: 1) pretest-posttest control group design, 2) time-series design (repeated measure), and 3) factorial design.  

An annotated bibliography is a way to organize the literature that you have located for a research study. The annotation begins with an APA style-formatted reference of the source, followed by a block paragraph summarizing the findings. For this assignment, you should locate five quantitative research studies related to the problem you identified in activity 1 and create an annotated bibliography. Include the following information in your annotation for each source:

  1. Begin with an APA style-formatted reference of the source followed by a block paragraph that summarizes the following:
  2. Identify the research question(s) and the hypotheses
  3. Identify the quantitative research design and the statistical analysis used
  4. Identify the instrument(s) used in the study
  5. Describe the population and note the specific number of participants 
  6. Summarize the findings of the research study

Submit paper of your discussion using points of emphasis above. 3-5 pages. Be sure to use APA formatting with a title and reference page.

Upon this being done, I will have additional assignments to follow that build on this assignment.

Response 5-1 (DR)

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Incident Reporting

Incidents occur in everyone’s life that affects the normal way of living. Incidents in business organizations cause many problems. They also lead to disruption in business operations. Some of the incidences that occur in the workplace are system crash, hardware crash, data loss, cyber-attacks, employee mistakes, natural disasters, terrorist attacks and others that affect business operations and its productivity.  Incidents may occur anytime and cause huge effects. Business organizations have a team called an incident management team that is responsible to deal with such incidences and prevent losses to the organization. They continuously monitor the systems and network, hardware equipment and ensure the security of data. Some organizations take the help of third party incident handlers and agree with them.  The incident management team has all access to confidential data of the organization. They research the organization; they find the risk and vulnerabilities to the organization by communicating with all the users, staff, suppliers, dealers and other members of the organization to identify every related risk. They document every risk and vulnerabilities according to priority and they prepare an incident response plan.

The incident response plan will help the team to resolve the issues before the risks create problems. They raise tickets when they find any threat to the organization’s data.  These risks and solutions applied to solve the issue are documented along with the results so that it can be reviewed later in the future.  End users can be anyone who uses the services of an organization or who uses data of the organization. End-users of an organization are employees, customers, suppliers, dealers, vendors, and other business partners. 

They play a very important role during the incident response plan creation because they are the person who faces problems. They should report the issues they face to the incident management team either through email communication or by raising any ticket online.

Reference

ManageEngine. (2018, July 18). ITIL incident management workflows, best practices, roles, and KPIs – A definitive guide. Retrieved from

250-300 Word Essay

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Choose 1 concept/idea/ or theory covered in chapter that you found interesting or learned something you did not know. Write a 250-300 word essay about the topic you chose. Discuss what you found interesting and what you learned! You can add your opinion about the topic discuss if you agree or not and why? Response is expected and you are to cite within the text the oage(s) references from the text 

Homework Assignment (Hilary)

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  • Based on Generation like clip: Answer the following questions:
  • First, what are your overall impressions of the documentary? Positive, and/or Negative? How do you think being so socially media active affects nonverbal communication? and how does it affect traditional interpersonal communication as a whole? Positive and/or negative? What are your views on the issue of businesses, and corporations using the audience, (the social media users) to market and promote their, merchandise, and products? Do you think it is positive to have desires to post images, and videos of yourself (or individuals) in examples of getting “likes” by any means necessary? Do you think people spend too much time on social media? why or why not? Finally, where is Social medial going to take society in the future? In terms of communication and corporate marketing and sponsoring by social media? Please, also post an image, or Meme, or tweet that recently got you to like, or share it, or maybe has a lot of likes, and caused you to stop and actually question or be shocked at the amount of likes it had and describe its ability to generate so many likes? Do you think there is corporate sponsoring behind it? Why or why not?