Submit your final project. It should be a complete, polished artifact containing all of the critical elements of the final product. It should reflect the incorporation of feedback gained throughout the course. Refer to the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric PDF document for detailed instructions and the rubric.
The each milestones are attached below.
Feedback of each milestones
Milestone 1
Thanks for this revision, Stella.I have some feedback:
I see your research question revised as: “Does the interruption of services to a learning disability student have a negative impact on ADA students besides their academic performance?”
This question requires a little smoothing out. Consider this: “Does support service interruption impact a student with a learning disability in areas aside from academic performance?” Does that difference make sense?
I understand that you might learn more things in this study, but you should really only have 1 Research Question. I see many others listed here – please choose only the ONE you intend to focus on.
I highly suggest you stop using “ADA students” or “learning disabilities students” and replace all references to your subjects as “student with a learning disability” or “students with learning disabilities” depending on if singular or plural.
Your entire document should follow the rubric precisely. Each “critical element” in the rubric is a heading. So, you don’t need “abstracts” and “literature review”. Correct this for future milestones and for the final submission.
Your subjects will be from BOTH PSY510 and 520. You may not survey them more than once a day – the survey is one and done style. I remain worried that you will not have enough participants willing to participate since you seem to require the participants be exclusively students with learning disabilities. This is problematic. Sometimes students struggle to get 5-7 participants when their topic is a niche. You also mention a control group. This is outside of the norm for this project. Do you intend to have a control group? From a practical perspective, how will this work?
What is SAS?
You may not “test” participants for learning disabilities. Please remove this from the Analytic Procedures.
I will give tentative authorization for this project to move forward, but with the caution that I’m not sure you can secure enough participation, I am worried about your participants having to self-disclose a learning disability and I don’t completely understand all your procedures based on this writing. I’ll be reading future milestones quite closely and providing deep feedback. Please consider if there is another way to allow ALL to participate in your survey, without having to disclose a learning disability.
Feedback for milestone 2
No feedback given.
Feedback for milestone 3
Thanks for this milestone, Stella! You are ready to go collect data!
Feedback for milestone 4
Did you collect data yet? This is future tense, so I can’t tell. The methods and results should be in past tense because you already collected the data and did the statistical analysis.
Feedback from milestone 5
Well done! You’ve drafted an solid start to a Discussion. Comments/suggestions are embedded in the rubric itself. Feel free to reach out anytime with questions. It’s all coming together now!
NMilestones
Milestone One: Edited PSY 510 Final Paper (Research Proposal)
In Module One, you will submit an edited version of the research proposal that was the final project for PSY 510. Editing and incorporating feedback are two of the key skills that researchers need to master in order to produce high-quality writing. Indeed, all peer-reviewed articles have been written and rewritten many times; they are never completed in only one draft!
Rather than merely submitting the same version of the assignment that you submitted in PSY 510, it is important that you edit and improve the paper based on the feedback provided by your PSY 510 instructor. In addition to the feedback provided from your PSY 510 instructor, please also refer to the Milestone One Guidelines document.
It is OK to make changes to your research question, hypothesis, or research methods, but please clear any substantial changes such as completely changing the problem statement with your instructor. This will be submitted for feedback only.
Milestone Two: Draft of Research Materials (Surveys)
In Module Two, you will submit a draft of all items and questionnaires that will be given to your participants in your study. The items and questions should be listed in the exact order that they will be given to participants. You may use questionnaires that you have designed, questionnaires used in previous research, or any combination thereof. Your instructor will provide feedback so that these materials may be improved before data collection. This milestone will be graded with the Milestone Two Rubric.
Milestone Three: Qualtrics Input and Participant Notification
In Module Four, you will use the Qualtrics software to program the research materials (i.e., surveys) that you will give to participants. It is important to program your materials exactly how you want students to see them. Remember to register for your SNHU Qualtrics account by following the instructions on the Creating a Qualtrics Account handout prior to beginning work on this milestone. Be sure to incorporate the feedback that you received on your materials from your instructor on Milestone Two. Refer to the Qualtrics website and the instructional video in Module Four for assistance.
You will also compose an introductory message to your study participants, which you will use in the Collect Data From Participants task in Module Four.
This milestone will be graded with the Milestone Three Rubric.
Milestone Four: Initial Draft of Methods and Results
In Module Six, you will submit an initial draft of your Methods and Results sections. Now that you have completed your data collection, it is important to revise your methods section so that it accurately reflects the methods that were actually used in your study.
In your Results section, you should first describe how you reduced your data for analysis (e.g., how your questionnaires were summed or averaged to get a composite score to analyze). Your Results section should also include a table of the relevant descriptive statistics. Last, you will need to describe the statistical test that you chose to run and provide the key results for the test as well as a brief explanation of the results. It is essential that you follow APA style when writing this section. Please refer to Chapters 2 and 5 of your APA manual for further instructions on how best to write a Methods and Results section. This milestone will be graded with the Milestone Four Rubric.
Milestone Five: Initial Draft of Discussion Section
In Module Eight, you will submit an initial draft of your Discussion section. This section should recap your findings, discuss how the findings fit in with prior research on the topic, discuss areas for future research, and mention limitations and ethical considerations related to your research. It is essential that you follow APA style when writing this section. This milestone will be graded with the Milestone Five Rubric.
Final Submission: Research Paper
In Module Ten, you will submit your final project. It should be a complete, polished artifact containing all of the critical elements of the final product. It should reflect the incorporation of feedback gained throughout the course.
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