Critical analysis of a quantitative study-"Student perceptions of stress, coping, relationships, and academic civility:A longitudinal study" Directions Please follow the criteria below when reviewing your selected research article for this assignment. Address each of the Criteria I-VI and the related elements. Fully and clearly evaluate the strengths, weaknesses and/or gaps for each of the criteria with related elements. Provide examples from the study with evidence from literature, textbook, or other professional sources to support your analysis. This is an individual assignment. This assignment requires APA format for the title page, 2 levels for structuring paper, citation in text and reference page. Two level format would include the major criteria centered on the page, and flush left the element related to that criteria you are addressing before you present the analysis. Refer to the Critical Analysis: Quantitative Research Rubric [PDF, File Size 88 KB] for details related to grading expectations as you begin your assignment. The rubric also shows how you can advance your performance level beyond the expected Mastery to the Exemplary performance level. Criteria I. Background Information/Overview Literature: empirical, theoretical; primary, secondary sources; relevance to topic and interventions. Problem/Significance: issues, relevance, benefits, stakeholders. Purpose: intent of the study. II. Hypotheses/ Operational Definitions or Research Question/Definition of Terms Direction of study and type(s) of hypotheses. Types of variables. Operational definitions. Research question and definition of terms. III. Study Design Type of research design. Alignment of design to purpose and hypotheses/question. Rationale and relevance of design to purpose/hypotheses, research question. IV. Methodology Population: sample demographics, selection, assignment, sample size. Data Collection: tools/interventions, reliability, validity, relevance to the population. Procedure: rigor and relevance to question/hypothesis. V. Ethical Considerations Participant rights: voluntary participation, consent, anonymity, confidentiality, withdrawal, and protection from harm. IRB approval process at study site. VI. Analysis Statistical methods. Findings of the study. Inferences or limitations. VII. Implications Nursing and/or Healthcare Practice. Nursing Education. Nursing Leadership/Administration. Formatting requirements: Title Page conform to APA format. Use the headings from this outline when writing your paper in 2 level format. All references cited within the paper and on the reference page must adhere to APA guidelines. Note: All documents must be written and submitted in Microsoft® Word®. If written in another word processing program the instructor may not be able to open it, the formatting will be distorted and you may be asked to resubmit your paper prior to grading. Submitting Your Assignment: Submit your paper as an attachment through the assignment drop box. Be sure to click 'submit' after attaching your assignment. Check the course schedule for the due date. Grading Your Assignment: It is strongly recommended that you use both the Critical Analysis: Quantitative Research Rubric [PDF, File Size 88 KB] and the criteria for the critical analysis to assure you have addressed all the criteria. This assignment is worth 30% of your final grade. Compose your work using a word processor (or other software as appropriate) and save it frequently to your computer. When you're ready to submit your work, click Browse My Computer and find your file. Once you've located your file click Open and, if successful, the file name will appear under the Attached files heading. Scroll to the bottom of the page, click Submit and you're done. Be sure to check your work and correct any spelling or grammatical errors before you post it.
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Oral History Course Paper Anthro 2a – Fall 2015 For this assignment you have a choice of 2 topics. Please select only one of these for your paper. This paper is to be at least 2000 words (approximately 6 pages), typed, double-spaced, size 10–12 font with reasonable sized margins (1”-1.5”). Spelling and grammar are important to any college paper and if you have significant grammar and spelling mistakes they will detract from your final score. This paper is worth a possible 200 points (20% of the total possible class points ). You will need to include a word count and your fieldnotes when you submit your paper in lecture on Monday, Nov. 23, 2015. This paper should be a personalized narrative of your informant’s experiences. It should present actual, lived experiences, beliefs and values from your informant’s own life. Topic #1 Oral History - Immigrant For this topic you will need to interview an immigrant concerning their experiences adapting to life in the United States. You will take field notes based on your interview and then write up your findings in a full, approximately 5-7 page (minimum 2000 word) ethnography. You will be expected to utilize and apply anthropological concepts, which you have learned in this class, to your findings. You will turn in your field notes with the final version of your paper. You will need to devise your own open-ended style of interview questions asking your informant to tell you about his or her socio-cultural experiences of adapting to American society. You may want to ask them what were the influences that caused them to migrate to the US, what sort of difficulties they faced and what, if any advantages they felt they gained through their immigration experience. Remember that you want to encourage your informant to talk as much as possible about what HE or SHE felt to be important about his or her immigration experience and what he or she would like the reader to understand about what they went through to adapt to life in the US. Also, be sure and ask your informant in what ways does he or she feel that his values have changed as a result of the immigration experience and does he or she view this as having a positive or negative impact on their life. Please attach your interview notes to your final paper. Topic #2 Oral History – Senior Citizen For this topic you will conduct an interview, take notes, and write up your findings in a full five to seven page paper. Please also attach your interview notes to your final paper. You will be expected to utilize and apply anthropological concepts, which you have learned in this class, to your findings. Your interview source should be a senior citizen, preferably a family relative or family friend, with whom you feel comfortable conducting an interview. The focus of your interview will be on what was life like for your interviewee when she or he was your “college age” (please note that they do not have to have actually attended college). What beliefs, activities, values, and hopes did your interviewee have at that time? In what ways does your informant feel that their values, beliefs and expectation have changed over time? Does he or she consider these changes to be a positive or a negative? Be sure to conduct your interview in an open-ended manner. Your goal here is to have your informant tell you as much about his or her young adult life experiences as possible, so don’t ask simple “yes” or “no” questions. Finally, compare his or her answers to your own life. In what ways are his or her responses similar to or different from your own life? Please attach your interview notes to your final paper. Additional issues to keep in mind – This assignment should include a discussion opf key themes from our class. In other words, whether you choose to interview an immigrant or interview a senior citizen, you need to discuss a minimum of three issues from our class. These issues could include topics such as immigration experiences – sexuality, dating and marriage experiences – family and kinship experiences - economic (subsistence) experiences – the roles of race and ethnicity in the life of your informant (including the impact of racism and/or racial tension) - the social expectations of men and women (gender roles) as experienced by your informant- problems related to living in an increasingly industrialized society - social pressures related to the body - education experience- religious beliefs and experiences- or any other topic that we cover in class this quarter. Please be sure to discuss your informants own personal experiences as related to these key topics. Please focus on discussing how these issues personally effected your informant's life. Paper Due Date: Your paper is due in class on Monday, Nov. 23, 2015. Late papers will lose 10 points for each day that they are submitted late (the late penalty is applied to weekends and holidays as well as weekdays). Please be sure to provide a word count on your final paper and also you attach your fieldnotes to your completed paper. (The fieldnotes do NOT count towards your total essay word count on this assignment).
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