Prior to completing this discussion, read Chapters 9 and 10 in the textbook; Eriksonian Developmental StagesLinks to an external site. Vygotsky’s Sociocultural TheoryLinks to an external site. Also watch the video Multifinality, Equifinality, and Hockey FightingLinks to an external site.. Your original post must be at least 400 words and cite the required sources. […]

For this week’s Journal entry, respond to the following three prompts: Progress: What has been happening in the course since your previous Journal entry? Problems: Describe your skill and experience in doing interviews. What do you bring to the table? What skills do you feel you lack? Plans: Look toward the next week. What will […]

To prepare: Use the search strategies you learned in Week 3 to find two additional peer-reviewed articles that support your research problem. (Note: This will bring the total number of research articles you have found to eight.) Assignment: 2–3 pages, not including title page or references page(s) Using the Research Article Summaries document you began […]

To prepare for this Discussion: There are “rules of thumb” that guide each qualitative approach. Review Patton’s chapter on sampling types, and study sampling strategies in research articles on the approach you have chosen. Review the articles on data saturation and theoretical saturation, and consider which criteria you will follow to estimate “how many.” Remember, […]

To prepare: Review what you have learned about evaluating research articles in terms of their relationship to your discipline and to your proposed topic. Review the articles in your Research Articles Summaries and apply the evaluation questions to each one. You may need to reopen the article to do this. Review the video resources on […]

Review all the postings and then reply to a classmate who has chosen the same approach as you. Consider their choices of sample size, criteria for inclusion and exclusion, sample size, saturation strategies, and ethics. What do you agree with? What would you do differently? 

Consider the following question: Is interview data an appropriate choice for your study? In-depth and semi-structured interviews explore the experiences of participants and the meanings the participants attribute to those experiences. Researchers encourage participants to talk about issues pertinent to the research question by asking open-ended questions, usually in one-on-one interviews. The interviewer might re-word, […]

 How do I write 3 to 4 pages that: Describe a critical incident you have heard about in the news in the past year.  The critical incident being mass deportation in the State of CA. Using the Chaos Theory Model: Describe the theory. Justify why it is the best approach to your chosen crisis (mass […]

How do I discuss how trauma is, and is not, affected by time. Consider how a crisis or traumatic event can affect an individual over time. How do I respond to the following: Myer and Moore (2006) cite Bronfenbrenner’s assertion that a crisis has “varying degrees of impact on an individual’s development, and this impact […]

Respond to at least two of your colleagues’ posts (on different days) by suggesting any further steps they might take to identify the gap in the research literature related to their study. Note: Your responses to colleagues should be substantial (250 words minimum), supported with scholarly evidence from your research and/or the Learning Resources, and […]