This week’s reading covers data.  It discusses statistics, analysis, data presentation, and evaluating quality. Like last week’s material, it will be covered in Quiz 5, available Next Week.

If you haven’t done a third presentation yet, it is this week. The Research Designers will cover Part 8 of the current text. Methodological Masters will cover Parts 9 and 10. Experimental Experts will cover some of Part 10 in our current text (Duesbery & Twyman, 2019), and that group will cover some of Part 10 in our last text (Patten & Newhart, 2017). Quality Clarifications focus on tips as you prepare your proposal. Students in that group will also cover part of Patten and Newhart’s Part 10 as well as specific article reporting standards from the American Psychological Association. Part 10  of Patten and Newhart will not be covered in any tests, but it does discuss research reports and, along with the article standards, should help you prepare to write your proposal.

Turning to this week’s post, do you remember how your previous text discussed “saturation” (Topics, 29, 33, and 84)? This week’s blog assignment makes sure you have reached saturation in your examination of research relevant to your proposal. That concept from qualitative research, which suggests you are not finding particularly new information and have limited areas for new exploration, is a good way to judge when you’ve done enough secondary research. Particularly, when you are a graduate student.

For your undergraduate proposal, I just want to make sure you’ve done a few more searches to really cover your bases. If you have trouble thinking of additional searches you can complete to fulfill this assignment, I’d strongly suggest you reach out to me or a librarian for assistance and additional ideas. This assignment expects that there are at least five more searches you can run to find material, but it does provide an option if you’ve truly used up all possibilities before you run those searches.

Additionally, now that you’ve done a variety of searches and, possibly, found everything there is to know, write a brief annotated bibliography to share in your post. Include at least five sources in this bibliography but feel free to include up to ten. The rubric will only judge the best five annotations on each post.

Learning Activities:

• Reading: Duesbery & Twyman, Part 8
• Presentations as they are posted
• Class Recording from last semester. We reviewed the Week 12 post and discussed the upcoming posts for this week and Week 14. There are clear video bookmarks in this recording to help you go specifically to the topics you want additional information on. Just use the bookmark icon in the lower right of the video.

Assignments:

• Week 13 Blog Post
• Presentations to cover the last of the quiz material as well as get additional tips for what to include in the proposal and how to include it.

Week 13 Blog Post — Finish Secondary Research

Conduct at least five more searches, explain whether you’ve reached saturation, and annotate the most important citations you have found since you started searching earlier this semester.

This blog post should:

1. Use appropriate categorization, tagging, and visuals.
2. Remind us of your search topic
3. Document the search using the same detail you used previously. Exactly what search did you conduct in which database, and how many results did you get?
4. Be clear about whether each search proved helpful. Did you generally get material that may be relevant to your topic? How much of the results appeared to be relevant? Were they barely relevant, generally relevant, or spot on? Why or why not? How so?
5. Discuss whether additional searches are needed: Did you reach saturation (see above)? Why or why not?
6. Include an annotated bibliography for at least five sources. Use the Bibliography Resources to ensure a good format and good content. Be sure to start each entry with the source cited in APA format and, then, the annotation. Make sure you:
   • Include a thesis statement for the bibliography as a whole.
   • Understand the format that each annotation should use, and
   • Understand the content expected for each annotation.
7. In-Class Examples and APA recommendation:
   • As I start to review your Week 10 posts, Abigail and Kaci both had excellent annotations! If you want another example or two of how an annotation should read, I encourage you to check their annotations out.
   • I’ll also use this as yet another chance to remind you to USE THE APA STYLE GUIDE. As I note in the APA resources, you can NOT rely wholly on citation generators at least 90% of the time they get something wrong. If you utilize the resources in the blog and still have a question about your APA citations, be sure you check the style guide for that exact example. If you would like further clarification after that, email me an example citation.

The rubric is in My Grades. It has 20 points for good blogging techniques. The searches and the clarity of the information required for each search are worth 50 points. The annotated bibliography is worth 30 points.

You do not need to connect sources in your annotated bibliography to any specific sources. However, I do think this post-by-post research diary you’ve created will be more useful for you if you note or describe sources you find at each fruitful search.

Week 13 Deadline: Monday, April 25 at 2pm Central