Category: Education

Base on my research plan, write a literature review
Your Action Research Plan: Literature Review is due this session. For this component, you will conduct a thorough review of the existing research on the topic of reflection, focusing on higher education. You will include a summary of the major themes, findings, and methodologies used in the research.
Literature Review:
Conduct a thorough review of the existing research on the topic of reflection, focusing on higher education. Include a summary of the major themes, findings, and methodologies used in the research. Your literature review must include 15 sources, of which at least 10 must be primary research.

Select a small extra-curricular program to propose to your supervisor/principal. Identify the major expenses that the district would have to incur. (At least 20 items) Create a budget proposal. Utilizing the Uniform Minimum Chart of Accounts, create a table or spreadsheet with the following columns:
Account Number
Item Description
Quantity
Cost/Per
Total
Enter a grand total for the project
Prepare a justification for the project and support the value of the expenditure to the students.
Examine the costs and identify any areas where a different method or concept might reduce the program cost and compare the costs if those options were possible.

Write a reflection paper on how these two assignments demonstrate accomplishment of the EdD Program outcomes
EdD Program Outcomes:
Identify and address critical and contemporary issues in educational policy and practice through understanding educational organizations as complex and dynamic entities
Manage and lead in an educational context through addressing and mitigating conflict and challenges as transformational leaders
Integrate principles of administration and management with organizational capability and viability
Lead as self-reflective, visionary, and entrepreneurial change agents equipped to bring cutting edge thinking and management processes to one’s organizational roles
Leverage technology and institutional resources to achieve strategic goals and priorities
Build and nurture a sense of community, enhanced motivation, risk-taking, creativity, flexibility, and innovation within an educational context
Demonstrate high-level analytic thinking, advanced research design, and problem-solving skills to implement organizational change and serve as catalysts to improve organizational practices
Carry out an evidence-informed change initiative
Write an action research dissertation of publishable quality

Discussion Board 4
Identifying Variables
Describe the difference between an independent and dependent variable.
Locate a QUANTITATIVE peer-reviewed journal article in your field and answer the following questions.
What are the research questions?
What are the independent variables?
What are the dependent variables?
How did the authors measure the dependent variables?
Identify possible variables for your own dissertation study or for a proposed study (if you plan to do the Strategic Research Project).
For quantitative studies,
What are the independent variables?
What are the dependent variables?
What are some ways you could measure the dependent variables?
For qualitative studies,
What is the variable of interest/phenomenon?
What are some ways you plan to collect data to measure the variable of interest/phenomenon?
I uploaded two files that should flow with the assignment of mental healthcare. 

Select and ask at least 10 interview questions from the EL Teacher Interview Questions document. You may reword questions slightly, if necessary, or add additional clarifying questions during the interview. Record the teacher’s responses. Write a 525- to 700-word summary that includes: A brief introductory paragraph that describes the teacher and the environment where they work An explanation of the number of EL students the teacher works with and their English proficiency levels An overview of the questions and responses posed in the interview A conclusion that explains what you learned from the interview and the implications for working with elementary level EL students Document your interview time on My Time Log.

Today, more than 50 million students attend public schools in the United States. These schools require a few million adults to serve as teachers, administrators and staff members. Those figures mean that on any given weekday, about one-sixth of our national population can be found in a public school, making it the largest governmental entity that Americans encounter for sustained periods.
However, as we have learned in class this week, when you step into school, you step into a place that is legally allowed to limit or take away some of your Constitutional Rights. 

Discussion Questions
Now it’s time to share your thoughts. In your submission answer the following questions: 
1) Do you agree with the Supreme Court that schools have the right to limit or take away students’ Constitutional rights in some situations? Why or why not? 
2) Are there any Constitutional rights that you think should NEVER be taken away from public school students? Be specific and explain your thinking!

Instructions
Be the teacher…
You will be assigned an age-group​ based on where you live. – Queens, ages 11-12
You will create original Piagetian-type tasks appropriate for the age group.​ For example, if the grade you are assigned will consist of children who are making the transition into concrete operational thought, they might expand upon Piaget’s conservation of length task (which originally used sticks), by identifying a different type of material (e.g., a garden hose is the same length regardless of being stretched out or coiled). For formal operations, students might consider evaluating word puzzles or solving mystery vignettes. They can then administer these tasks to one or more K-12 students.​
Students’ tasks might involve conservation of number, substance, length, distance, area, volume, height, or weight. ​
Please write the following:
Age group assigned
which of Piaget’s stages will the children be in (children might be between stages) 
What is expected of children at that stage of development
What kind of developmentally appropriate activity might you assign children of that age. describe it in detail. It could be a game, toy, assignment, etc. 
How do you know this is an appropriate assignment for students that age and in that stage of development?
What do you expect the children to learn or accomplish by doing this activity?

Please see attached.  The topic is written in the research problem document.  The other attachments give the paper details and grading rubric.

For this assignment, you are going to organize your summaries into your introduction and literature review.
There is one criterion in the Research Proposal Rubric along with the description in order to receive a 3: Exceeds Standards, it is:
1) Introduction: Problem,  Significance, & Purpose of the Study
Presents a significant research problem related to education or topic with relevance to education. Articulates clear, reasonable research questions given the purpose, design, and methods of the proposed study. All constructs and variables have been appropriately defined. Propositions are clearly supported from the research and theoretical literature. All elements are mutually supportive.
There are two criterion in the Research Proposal Rubric along with the description in order to receive a 3: Exceeds Standards, they are:
1) Literature Review: Organization 
Structure is intuitive and sufficiently inclusive of important constructs and variables of the proposed study.
2) Literature Review:
Narrative integrates critical and logical details from the peer-reviewed theoretical and research literature. Each key construct and variable is grounded to the literature. Attention is given to different perspectives, conditionalities, threats to validity, and opinion vs. evidence.
Outline for writing your small-scale literature review:
Introduction (15 points)
The introduction is used to establish the context of your review to the reader. Be sure to use the three areas (Problem, Significance, and Purpose of the Study)as subheadings in your Introduction. To establish the context, it is important to do the following in this opening paragraph:
Problem: Define the topic of your study and provide any background information that helps your reader to understand the topic.
Significance: Explain your reason (perspective) for reviewing the literature on this topic.
Purpose of the Study: Explain the purpose of your study, why it is important to you and end include your your research question(s) that will be addressed.
Body (20 points)
This section of your paper begins with an explanation of how you have organized your literature review and describes findings from articles that provide answers to your inquiry question. Before you begin this section, be sure that you have sorted your articles into different themes based on the articles’ findings (sometimes called results). After you sort your articles, it is important to give your sorted groups a descriptive name. The names of the sorted articles will become your headings for each of the paragraphs that you write in the body of your review. To write the body of your small-scale literature review, it is important to include the following:
Write an introduction paragraph for the body of your review. This paragraph tells the reader specific information on how many articles you reviewed and how you sorted the articles into common themes based on the findings (results).
This will be a paragraph that describes the first theme that you identified and compare, contrast and/or connect the articles you’ve selected.
This will be a paragraph that describes the second theme that you identified and compare, contrast and/or connect the articles you’ve selected.
This will be a paragraph that describes the third theme that you identified and compare, contrast and/or connect the articles you’ve selected.
Summary (10 points)
This is the last paragraph of your literature review. In this paragraph, it is important to summarize the main findings from the articles that you reviewed and to point out the information that you found particularly important to know that helps to answer the research question(s) that you established in the Purpose of the Study. Try to conclude your paper by connecting your research question back to the context of the general topic of study.
References (5 points)
This is the last page of your review. It serves as a listing of all references that you mentioned in your paper. Please use APA style when completing this list. You may click on the following link to help you with your references: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/reference_list_basic_rules.html
Other tools you may want to reference regarding APA style are listed below:
1) APA General Formatting: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html
2) APA In-text Citations – The Basics: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/in_text_citations_the_basics.html
3) APA In-text Citations – Author/Authors: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/in_text_citations_author_authors.html

MASTERS IN EDUCATION – HIGHER EDUCATION
THORIES IN ELEARING – CREATING AN ONINE COURSE
______________INITIAL DISCUSSION
Lessons Learned
As this class comes to a close, let’s take a moment to celebrate our learning journey. Reflect on how far you’ve come and how you’ve grown.
What “aha” moments during the course changed your perspective on eLearning, how did you overcome any challenges you encountered, and what key takeaways will stick with you moving forward?
____________STUDENT DISCUSSIONS ARE IN THE ATTACHMENT. PLEASE RESPOND TO THEM ALSO