The final paper should link an analysis of your decisions, beliefs, and conclusions in your sport leadership roles linked to both research articles and concepts covered in this class . The final paper should have no less than 7 cited references from peer reviewed articles, texts, or journals.

For this project the instructor will divide the class into groups of three to four people. When you click on Collaborations, on the navigation bar to the left of this screen, your group members will be there. Choose Google Docs for the group work. You have two weeks to complete this project.The goal of this project is to help students become more familiar with the Collaborations tool in Canvas and to have them work together respectfully and efficiently in an online group context. Group members should enter the discussions as quickly as possible, strive to cooperate with all members and persist in the discussions until the group project assignment is completed.InstructionsThe TopicYour discussion question will be "What is the best way for an online professor to promote retention in an online course?"For the purposes of this assignment, retention will be defined as:A student registers for an online course.That student completes the assignments for the course.The student receives a passing grade for the course.The Group needs to come to a consensus and decide on the one best method or practice that an instructor can use to ensure that all students complete the course.The Group Work ProcessStudy the two links below:What are Collaborations? (Links to an external site.)How do I view Collaborations as a Student? (Links to an external site.)Next, click on Collaborations on the navigation menu to the left of the screen.Find your group members.The first person to go in should set up a discussion in Google Docs.Read instructions below.Start a Google Docs CollaborationLinks to an external site.Group members should proceed to chat online and set up a schedule for completion of the project.Individual members in each group will be graded on the number of times they enter Google Docs to plan and brainstorm the discussion topic with their group members.The StructureThroughout the decision making process you will use Dewey's Reflective Thinking Model as a guide. The steps are:How do you define the problem?What are the causes of the problem?What criteria must a successful solution meet?What are the possible solutions?Which is the best solution ?Submit the Assignment--Title Page, Outline and APA ReferencesNote: Please view the rubric for this assignment (at the bottom of this page) to see how you will be graded.Each group should produce a title page in APA that can go at the beginning of the outline file.Each group member will turn in one outline and one APA References page that was created by the entire group.For example, if a group has three members, the same outline will be turned in 3 times.Submit an outline that follows the sample below and include Word Count for the outline only.SPC 1017 Group Project Sentence Outline TemplateYou need a minimum of three to four in text citations in the outline that correspond with the sources in your References.Each group member will turn in one APA list of References.Again, if a group has three members, each member will turn in the same References.The reference list will have three or four scholarly sources, depending on group

You have already completed the first phase of your final project by selecting a topic and conducting the preliminary literature review last week. This week, you will start working on the general-purpose statement and background for the final project by performing the following tasks.Complete the introduction section of your research paper.a. Define the research topic.b. State the general-purpose statement.Start the preliminary draft of the literature review section of the research paper.Consider three ethical issues that you think might come up for this project and how you might address them.Submission Details:Complete this section of your paper in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document.