Description of the issue of controversy.

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Write a 350-500 word topic proposal introducing the topic for your final project, which will be due in Week Nine. Your final project will be a slide presentation with speaker notes.

Choose a salient issue of controversy to explore from your community, the nation, or the world.

You must use at least two, and no more than three, philosophical approaches you learned in this course.

These include:  Pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Dualism, Idealism, Materialism, Continental, Pragmatism, Analytic, Kant, Mill, Care Ethics, Social Contract, Classic Liberalism, Libertarianism, Marxism, Chinese, Japanese, India/Hindu, Feminist, or Post-colonialist.

You may employ them to show where you think they are correct or where they are incorrect, you may contrast them or show how both agree on a point.  How you utilize these two or three perspectives is up to you.

Include the following in your proposal. You will use this information later in your slide show and speaker notes.

  • Description of the issue of controversy.
  • Discussion of how two or three philosophies or philosophers would describe the roots of the problem
  • Discussion of the political or ethical theories that are in evidence in the controversy
  • Your proposed solution to the problem based on the readings and your own research; would you use any of the philosophers or philosophies you chose?
  • Description of why you think your approach would solve the problem better than current approaches

Find at least 2 peer-reviewed sources in the University Library and discuss in your proposal how those sources support or refute your opinions. The following are useful resources that are available on the Multimedia page of the University Library:

  • Issues & Controversies
  • Issues & Controversies in American History
  • Global Issues in Context

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Self-Assessment

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As a researcher, you must understand that the body of knowledge the world uses to reason and analyze phenomena is always changing. There are always places to improve upon, refine, and add to the knowledge in your discipline. Likewise, your own skills and knowledge follow the same pattern. The skills you have acquired through this course are only the foundation of a very complex field. Even an experienced qualitative researcher knows that being able to identify where one still needs improvement and how to obtain additional skills is an important step toward continuously becoming a well-rounded researcher.

 

To prepare for this Application:

  • Assess your progress and skills with qualitative reasoning and analysis. Where do you still need to improve, and what is your plan for improving those skills?
  • Consider what role this course has played in helping you determine a dissertation topic approach. Has your original topic and approach changed? Why? How?
  • To what extent has using a software package informed your understanding of research in general? How has it informed you about how to read the findings of a research article?
  • Think about how this course fits into your residency requirements. Are you on track? Have you registered for your next residency?

The assignment:

  • Craft a 2-page paper in which you assess your progress in qualitative reasoning and analysis. Be sure you have addressed the questions above.

Sampling In Research

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Discuss the importance of sampling in research (your discussion should include information like: the difference between random and nonrandom sampling, how a researcher could manipulate the outcome of research based on how the sample was selected or how questions were asked, and the benefits and drawbacks of sampling, feel free to include anything else you think of). You have much latitude here so use your imagination.

 

mininmum of 400 words

Psychological Statistics Research Design

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Assignment 3: Research Design Questions

Suppose you were going to create your own study to examine what course-delivery format (online, blended, or face-to-face) leads to the best performance in a psychological statistics class. In a paper identify the following for your study:

  • What is your research question?
  • What is your hypothesis (both null and alternate)?
  • Is this a qualitative or quantitative design (based on type of variable collected) and why?
  • Is this a descriptive, correlational or experimental design and why?
  • What would be an example of a variable for this study that could be measured on a nominal scale? Ordinal scale? Interval scale? Ratio scale?
  • Once you have collected your data, would you use inferential or descriptive statistics and why?
  • Create a sample frequency distribution for one of the variables. Choose either a simple or grouped frequency distribution and explain your choice.

By Monday, August 31, 2015, deliver your assignment to the M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox.

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Identified an appropriate research question
3
Correctly identified the null and alternative hypotheses.
6
Explained whether your study would be classified as a qualitative or quantitative design and why.
6
Explained whether your study would be classified as a descriptive, correlational or experimental design and why.
10
Provided an example of a variable for this study that could be measure on a nominal scale, ordinal scale, interval scale, and ratio scale.
13
Explained whether inferential or descriptive statistics would be used to analyze the data collected and why.
6
Created a sample frequency distribution for one of the variables. Selected either a simple or grouped frequency distribution and explained choice.
20
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
16
Total:
80