For this discussion, you will describe your research design for answering key evaluation questions for your program evaluation. This is an extended discussion that should be 300400 words. The insights you gain from this discussion will help you complete your Unit 8 assignment.

At the beginning of your post, briefly provide the following information for your peers’ review:

• Population.
• Clinical area of concern.
• Clinical intervention to be evaluated.

After reading the text chapters on research design and watching the multimedia provided in this unit to give you practice with quantitative research designs, provide the following:

• State one evaluation question (pertinent to your planned evaluation) that could be answered with a quantitative study. Then, specify the type of research design that would best answer this question, offering your rationale. Lastly, identify the dependent and independent variables that would be measured to answer this evaluation question.
• State another evaluation question (pertinent to your planned evaluation) that could be answered with a quantitative study. Then, specify the type of research design that would best answer this question, offering your rationale. Lastly, identify the dependent and independent variables that would be measured to answer this evaluation question.

You will find it helpful to analyze the articles you found for your literature review and identify their types of research design as well as independent and dependent variables in order to prepare and refine your plan.

Include current APA style citations for at least four scholarly resources (this may be a combination of book sources and at least two peer-reviewed journal articles) that support your quantitative research design.

GUIDELINES FOR THE 3rd FIELD EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENT:
You must attend 1 policy event, at least approximately 1 hour in length. 

The event may be online and it must have a health policy focus. Online health policy events/ webinars will be posted from which you may choose.  Event must be health-related. 

GENERAL GUIDELINES:
1.  At the event, take notes, and then write up an account and analysis of the event, using the template for field experience logs (below), and the Field Experience Rubric.

FIELD LOG GUIDELINES:

As a way of demonstrating completion of this course requirement, you must submit, in writing, field logs that detail certain aspects of the event. The template for field experience logs is below.

 Each event log should be three to five double-spaced pages of text.

 Provide only a brief summary of the event itself.

 The analysis section should be 550 to 800 words, and be the most developed component of the report. In the analysis section, you can write about the process of policy being made at this event, and/or you can write about the actual health policy issue being discussed/considered.

 Your analysis should reference at least two sources. They can be from the learning materials in this course or other sources, but should be current (within the last 3 months).

 Use APA format for citations and references.

TEMPLATE FOR FIELD EXPERIENCE LOGS :
 The name of the event/meeting and who has sponsored it.

 The name of the event/meeting and who has sponsored it.

 Describe the steps taken in preparation for the event (beyond listening or attending the event).

 Place, date, time, and length of hearing/meeting/event.

 Topic under discussion.

 Names of participants and their titles (to the extent you can get them).

 Brief description of the testimony/meeting/event. (If more than one issue is presented, discuss a sampling of issues.)

 Analysis of the health policy issue and its implications for healthcare. Integrate course content and readings in your analysis. This section should be approximately 500 to 750 words.

TURNITIN ASSIGNMENT (FREE OF PLAGIARISM)!!!

Note: Attached, you will find a Field Experience Log work that you may use as a Reference for this new 3rd Field Log assignment.