ED 514 Alcorn State Effectiveness of Advising Programs in Colleges Capstone

User Generated

gnatvn

Humanities

ED 514

Alcorn State University

ED

Description

Respond to the following twelve(12) items about your specific research. Each response should be related to the research topic that you were assigned during the second week of this course.

Topic: developmental academic advising Your responses should not be a broad answer from the textbook. This means that each of your responses should prove that you understand the concept being posed in each question. Therefore, be sure that you provide detailed responses for each item based on the topic.


1. Identify your specific research question. Discuss why the research question is good based on the four essential characteristics that were discussed.

2. Why is this research problem/topic worthy of investigation? Use relevant literature with at least three (3) articles that are no older than ten (10) years.

3. Prepare a mini literature review using at least seven (7) articles no older than ten (10) years. The literature review should summarize/synthesize research that has already been conducted about the topic, showing patterns, disagreements, gaps, and indicate how your research fits in. The literature review should be written in APA format.

4. Identify the specific research method that would be most appropriate to address your specific research question. Include if the method is quantitative or qualitative.

5. Explain in detail why this method would be most appropriate.

6. Identify the proposed subjects for your study. Provide demographic information about the subjects. Why are these the appropriate subjects to conduct the study?

7. Identify what type of sampling method you would utilize for your proposed study. Why is this the most appropriate sampling method for this research?

8. What are the ethical concerns that may arise with conducting your research? How will you as the researcher deal with these ethical concerns?

9. Which IRB category will this research fall into? Provide an explanation.

10. Identify and attach the proposed instrument(s) would be used to collect the data for your research. You should consider using an instrument from research that has been already been conducted.

11. What is the validity and reliability of the proposed instrument?

12. Attach a properly formatted APA reference page. All of the references used in this assignment should be included on the reference page.

Unformatted Attachment Preview

CAPSTONE PROJECT 1 Capstone Project Terrance Guinn Alcorn State University CAPSTONE PROJECT 2 Effectiveness of advising programs in colleges Identify your specific research question. Discuss why the research question is good based on the four essential characteristics that were discussed. The researcher's question to this paper is whether colleges should hire advisors and if advising has any impact in a learning institution. The four essential characteristics of a research question is that it should have a yes or no answer, ethical, interesting, and relevant. Looking at this research question it is relevant in academics since it gives insights on understanding the importance of advising academics. The question can have a yes or no answer if asked directly. Also it is an interesting question to talk about considering the cultural differences in the schools today. Finally the question is ethical since it isn't biased. Why is this research problem/topic worthy of investigation? Use relevant literature with at least three (3) articles that are no older than ten (10) years. The topic under which our research problem is based on is the developmental advising academics. The issue about advising academics in colleges is worth investigating because the advisors and the institutions with academic programs have a great impact on the students (Gavero, 2016). Looking at the diversity in schools today it is important to note that the students need advisors and the colleges that lack advising programs are disadvantaged (Ledwith, 2014). According to research papers, institutions with advising programs are likely to benefit from donors. Also there is a good relationship between these institutions and the alumni. Prepare a mini literature review using at least seven (7) articles no older than ten (10) years. The literature review should summarize/synthesize research that has already been CAPSTONE PROJECT 3 conducted about the topic, showing patterns, disagreements, gaps, and indicate how your research fits in. The literature review should be written in APA format. Several research papers have been written regarding the issue of advising programs in colleges and other learning institutions. In a research paper by Ledwith, (2014), she wrote that there is a difference between career advisors and academic advisors but both should play a significant role to ensure that the students make the best choices. In another study, the researchers found that the institutions that had to advise programs turned out to have a good relationship with alumni and received sponsorship from donors (McGill, Duslak and Puroway, 2020). In addition to this other researchers have stated that it is vital for the advisors to understand the population in the institution so that the program will focus on the problems facing them (Gavero, 2016). According to Steele, (2018) the advisors should ensure that their identity is hidden to avoid bias. To hide the identity, it is vital to have a strategic plan that will be used to advise the students (Winham, 2020). Another research found that developmental advising academic is good to the students and advises all the schools to adopt programs that will help the students overcome particular challenges (Zhang, 2016). Another study has discussed about the developmental issues faced by the Asian students and why advising programs are essential to this group (Harootian and Reilly, 2015). Finally, it is vital for the advisors to incorporate activelearning activities in the advising programs to engage the learners directly. Identify the specific research method that would be most appropriate to address your specific research question. Include if the method is quantitative or qualitative. CAPSTONE PROJECT 4 For this research paper, I will use interviews to get the findings. The interview will be based on a focus group. The main group that we are going to interview will be the advisors and students from minority groups. This method is qualitative because it gives the participants to give a general answer and then the researcher will use the responses to generate the findings. The interviews will focus on the main question that gives an insight into the benefits of the advising academic in institutions and how it benefits them. Also the interview questions will help the advisors to explain the impacts of the developmental advising academic in the institutions they work. Explain in detail why this method would be most appropriate. I find the use of interviews to be most appropriate because it gives the participants to write down several opinions. These opinions can make a comparison that later brings a better understanding of the issue in question. Since the study will focus on different focus groups, it will be easier to compare the feelings of the learners and those of advisors to find out if there is any common understanding. When an interview is used, one is free to answer a question or not. This makes the participants feel more comfortable when answering the questions. Identify the proposed subjects for your study. Provide demographic information about the subjects. Why are these appropriate subjects to conduct the study? For this study, our participants will be minority learners and advisors. We will choose 500 learners among them, 100 black Americans, 200 Latinos, 100 Asians, and 200 Hispanic students. These students will come across different institutions with developmental advising academic programs. The advisor will be 50 in number. The reason I choose the minority students CAPSTONE PROJECT 5 in this study is because they are ones that are experiencing developmental issues and advising academic benefits them a lot. The advisors are ones in a position to understand the impacts these programs have in their institutions and how the students benefits from advising academic. Therefore, these participants will give reliable data. Identify what type of sampling method you would utilize for your proposed study. Why is this the most appropriate sampling method for this research? The sampling method for this study is not easy because each of the population being sampled is big. Also we are involving a different institution which means that sampling the population might be difficult. In this case, I would suggest that we use random sampling. This will require use to go to particular schools and make a random selection of the participants. Under such a situation, we will select each learner independently, meaning that each person has an equal chance. The importance of this method of sampling is that it is not biased and anyone can get s chance to participate in the study. What are the ethical concerns that may arise with conducting your research? How will you as the researcher deal with these ethical concerns? In every research paper, there are ethical concerns that might arise when conducting research. As a researcher, it is vital to understand how to deal with such issues. In this case, there is the issue of biases that might occur due to the failure to involve the white students. Most people might claim that failure to involve these students is a form of discrimination. As a researcher, I will be firm in making sure that I insist on the developmental issues facing the CAPSTONE PROJECT 6 minority groups. The other ethical issue is the privacy of the data collected. As a researcher, it is my duty to ensure that I provide security to the data by using strong passwords and authentications. Which IRB category will this research fall into? Provide an explanation. The research falls under the exempt IRB category. The research that falls under this category should be educational and involves minimal impact on the participants. In this case our study is conducted and is acceptable in an education setting because it incorporates normal education practices (Harootian and O’Reilly, 2015). Also the practices involved are not in a position to impacts the learners' ability to learn the other course materials or the educators giving them the instructions. In general, the research has no impact on the institution and the learners involved in the study. Identify and attach the proposed instrument(s) that would be used to collect the data for your research. You should consider using an instrument from research that has been already been conducted. Data collection methods can be a researcher of the subject completed. For each method chosen, it is vital to note that there are advantages and disadvantages. In this case, our data collection methods will be subject- completed. We are going to use interviews that are selfchecklist. This is a form of interview where the participants are given printed questions to answers. The participants are given time to give answers and give the papers to the researcher. CAPSTONE PROJECT 7 Figure 1 example of a self-checklist questions What is the validity and reliability of the proposed instrument? Before choosing a particular method to collect data, researchers should know that everyone wants to know the reliability of the data collected. Therefore, to get reliable data, it is vital to ensure that the data collection method is valid and reliable. In this case, the self-checklist method is valid because all it is a well-known method of data collection. The responses collected are reliable because the answers are matched to the given list. Therefore, this method can be relied upon as the other interviews where the data is collected and filled in by the researcher. CAPSTONE PROJECT 8 References Gavero, G. C. (2016). The importance of early mentorship for minority students. Academic Psychiatry, 41(2), 303-304. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-016-0643-7 Harootian, D. P., & O’Reilly, E. N. (2015). undefined. Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 87-97. https://doi.org/10.37237/060106 How to motivate your advisors: Help them capture more assets and produce at higher levels. (2015). The Bullish Thinking Guide for Managers, 121129. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119198833.ch9 Ledwith, K. E. (2014). Academic advising and career services: A collaborative approach. New Directions for Student Services, 2014(148), 49-63. https://doi.org/10.1002/ss.20108 McGill, C. M., Duslak, M. P., & Puroway, A. (2020). Entering academic advising. Journal of Academic Advising, 2. https://doi.org/10.14434/jaa.v2i1.27416 Steele, G. E. (2018). Student success: Academic advising, student learning data, and technology. New Directions for Higher Education, 2018(184), 5968. https://doi.org/10.1002/he.20303 Winham, I. (2020). Advising pre-dead students. Journal of Academic Advising, 2. https://doi.org/10.14434/jaa.v2i1.27614 Zhang, Y. (2016). Appreciative advising with international students in American community colleges. International Education at Community Colleges, 93109. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53336-4_7 CAPSTONE PROJECT 1 Capstone Project Terrance Guinn Alcorn State University CAPSTONE PROJECT 2 Effectiveness of advising programs in colleges Identify your specific research question. Discuss why the research question is good based on the four essential characteristics that were discussed. The researcher's question to this paper is whether colleges should hire advisors and if advising has any impact in a learning institution. The four essential characteristics of a research question is that it should have a yes or no answer, ethical, interesting, and relevant. Looking at this research question it is relevant in academics since it gives insights on understanding the importance of advising academics. The question can have a yes or no answer if asked directly. Also it is an interesting question to talk about considering the cultural differences in the schools today. Finally the question is ethical since it isn't biased. Why is this research problem/topic worthy of investigation? Use relevant literature with at least three (3) articles that are no older than ten (10) years. The topic under which our research problem is based on is the developmental advising academics. The issue about advising academics in colleges is worth investigating because the advisors and the institutions with academic programs have a great impact on the students (Gavero, 2016). Looking at the diversity in schools today it is important to note that the students need advisors and the colleges that lack advising programs are disadvantaged (Ledwith, 2014). According to research papers, institutions with advising programs are likely to benefit from donors. Also there is a good relationship between these institutions and the alumni. Prepare a mini literature review using at least seven (7) articles no older than ten (10) years. The literature review should summarize/synthesize research that has already been CAPSTONE PROJECT 3 conducted about the topic, showing patterns, disagreements, gaps, and indicate how your research fits in. The literature review should be written in APA format. Several research papers have been written regarding the issue of advising programs in colleges and other learning institutions. In a research paper by Ledwith, (2014), she wrote that there is a difference between career advisors and academic advisors but both should play a significant role to ensure that the students make the best choices. In another study, the researchers found that the institutions that had to advise programs turned out to have a good relationship with alumni and received sponsorship from donors (McGill, Duslak and Puroway, 2020). In addition to this other researchers have stated that it is vital for the advisors to understand the population in the institution so that the program will focus on the problems facing them (Gavero, 2016). According to Steele, (2018) the advisors should ensure that their identity is hidden to avoid bias. To hide the identity, it is vital to have a strategic plan that will be used to advise the students (Winham, 2020). Another research found that developmental advising academic is good to the students and advises all the schools to adopt programs that will help the students overcome particular challenges (Zhang, 2016). Another study has discussed about the developmental issues faced by the Asian students and why advising programs are essential to this group (Harootian and Reilly, 2015). Finally, it is vital for the advisors to incorporate activelearning activities in the advising programs to engage the learners directly. Identify the specific research method that would be most appropriate to address your specific research question. Include if the method is quantitative or qualitative. CAPSTONE PROJECT 4 For this research paper, I will use interviews to get the findings. The interview will be based on a focus group. The main group that we are going to interview will be the advisors and students from minority groups. This method is qualitative because it gives the participants to give a general answer and then the researcher will use the responses to generate the findings. The interviews will focus on the main question that gives an insight into the benefits of the advising academic in institutions and how it benefits them. Also the interview questions will help the advisors to explain the impacts of the developmental advising academic in the institutions they work. Explain in detail why this method would be most appropriate. I find the use of interviews to be most appropriate because it gives the participants to write down several opinions. These opinions can make a comparison that later brings a better understanding of the issue in question. Since the study will focus on different focus groups, it will be easier to compare the feelings of the learners and those of advisors to find out if there is any common understanding. When an interview is used, one is free to answer a question or not. This makes the participants feel more comfortable when answering the questions. Identify the proposed subjects for your study. Provide demographic information about the subjects. Why are these appropriate subjects to conduct the study? For this study, our participants will be minority learners and advisors. We will choose 500 learners among them, 100 black Americans, 200 Latinos, 100 Asians, and 200 Hispanic students. These students will come across different institutions with developmental advising academic programs. The advisor will be 50 in number. The reason I choose the minority students CAPSTONE PROJECT 5 in this study is because they are ones that are experiencing developmental issues and advising academic benefits them a lot. The advisors are ones in a position to understand the impacts these programs have in their institutions and how the students benefits from advising academic. Therefore, these participants will give reliable data. Identify what type of sampling method you would utilize for your proposed study. Why is this the most appropriate sampling method for this research? The sampling method for this study is not easy because each of the population being sampled is big. Also we are involving a different institution which means that sampling the population might be difficult. In this case, I would suggest that we use random sampling. This will require use to go to particular schools and make a random selection of the participants. Under such a situation, we will select each learner independently, meaning that each person has an equal chance. The importance of this method of sampling is that it is not biased and anyone can get s chance to participate in the study. What are the ethical concerns that may arise with conducting your research? How will you as the researcher deal with these ethical concerns? In every research paper, there are ethical concerns that might arise when conducting research. As a researcher, it is vital to understand how to deal with such issues. In this case, there is the issue of biases that might occur due to the failure to involve the white students. Most people might claim that failure to involve these students is a form of discrimination. As a researcher, I will be firm in making sure that I insist on the developmental issues facing the CAPSTONE PROJECT 6 minority groups. The other ethical issue is the privacy of the data collected. As a researcher, it is my duty to ensure that I provide security to the data by using strong passwords and authentications. Which IRB category will this research fall into? Provide an explanation. The research falls under the exempt IRB category. The research that falls under this category should be educational and involves minimal impact on the participants. In this case our study is conducted and is acceptable in an education setting because it incorporates normal education practices (Harootian and O’Reilly, 2015). Also the practices involved are not in a position to impacts the learners' ability to learn the other course materials or the educators giving them the instructions. In general, the research has no impact on the institution and the learners involved in the study. Identify and attach the proposed instrument(s) that would be used to collect the data for your research. You should consider using an instrument from research that has been already been conducted. Data collection methods can be a researcher of the subject completed. For each method chosen, it is vital to note that there are advantages and disadvantages. In this case, our data collection methods will be subject- completed. We are going to use interviews that are selfchecklist. This is a form of interview where the participants are given printed questions to answers. The participants are given time to give answers and give the papers to the researcher. CAPSTONE PROJECT 7 Figure 1 example of a self-checklist questions What is the validity and reliability of the proposed instrument? Before choosing a particular method to collect data, researchers should know that everyone wants to know the reliability of the data collected. Therefore, to get reliable data, it is vital to ensure that the data collection method is valid and reliable. In this case, the self-checklist method is valid because all it is a well-known method of data collection. The responses collected are reliable because the answers are matched to the given list. Therefore, this method can be relied upon as the other interviews where the data is collected and filled in by the researcher. CAPSTONE PROJECT 8 References Gavero, G. C. (2016). The importance of early mentorship for minority students. Academic Psychiatry, 41(2), 303-304. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-016-0643-7 Harootian, D. P., & O’Reilly, E. N. (2015). undefined. Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 87-97. https://doi.org/10.37237/060106 How to motivate your advisors: Help them capture more assets and produce at higher levels. (2015). The Bullish Thinking Guide for Managers, 121129. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119198833.ch9 Ledwith, K. E. (2014). Academic advising and career services: A collaborative approach. New Directions for Student Services, 2014(148), 49-63. https://doi.org/10.1002/ss.20108 McGill, C. M., Duslak, M. P., & Puroway, A. (2020). Entering academic advising. Journal of Academic Advising, 2. https://doi.org/10.14434/jaa.v2i1.27416 Steele, G. E. (2018). Student success: Academic advising, student learning data, and technology. New Directions for Higher Education, 2018(184), 5968. https://doi.org/10.1002/he.20303 Winham, I. (2020). Advising pre-dead students. Journal of Academic Advising, 2. https://doi.org/10.14434/jaa.v2i1.27614 Zhang, Y. (2016). Appreciative advising with international students in American community colleges. International Education at Community Colleges, 93109. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53336-4_7 Final Research Assignment ED 514 Summer 2020 Name ________________________________ A#____________________________ Directions Respond to the following twelve (12) items about your specific research. Each response should be related to the research topic that you were assigned during the second week of this course. Your responses should not be a broad answer from the textbook. This means that each of your responses should prove that you understand the concept being posed in each question. Therefore, be sure that you provide detailed responses for each item based on the topic. Due Date This assignment should be submitted in Canvas no later than Tuesday, June 30, 2020, no later than 10:00 pm. There will be NO grace period for this assignment. NO late assignments will be accepted. Questions 1. Identify your specific research question. Discuss why the research question is good based on the four essential characteristics that were discussed. 2. Why is this research problem/topic worthy of investigation? Use relevant literature with at least three (3) articles that are no older than ten (10) years. 3. Prepare a mini literature review using at least seven (7) articles no older than ten (10) years. The literature review should summarize/synthesize research that has already been conducted about the topic, showing patterns, disagreements, gaps, and indicate how your research fits in. The literature review should be written in APA format. 4. Identify the specific research method that would be most appropriate to address your specific research question. Include if the method is quantitative or qualitative. 5. Explain in detail why this method would be most appropriate. 6. Identify the proposed subjects for your study. Provide demographic information about the subjects. Why are these the appropriate subjects to conduct the study? 7. Identify what type of sampling method you would utilize for your proposed study. Why is this the most appropriate sampling method for this research? 2 8. What are the ethical concerns that may arise with conducting your research? How will you as the researcher deal with these ethical concerns? 9. Which IRB category will this research fall into? Provide an explanation. 10. Identify and attach the proposed instrument(s) would be used to collect the data for your research. You should consider using an instrument from research that has been already been conducted. 11. What is the validity and reliability of the proposed instrument? 12. Attach a properly formatted APA reference page. All of the references used in this assignment should be included on the reference page. 7:55 cdn.inst-fs-iad-prod.inscloudgate.net C v Final Research Assignment ED 514 Methods of Educational Research Spring 2013 Graded Items Comments Points Earned/Possible Points /10 /25 /25 /50 Appropriately develops a researchable research question. Clearly states why the identified problem/topic is worthy of investigation using relevant literature. The student identifies a specific research question that is feasible, clear, significant, and ethical. The student writes a clear, coherent literature review using the most up-to-date literature. The literature is synthesized and is appropriate to the topic. The literature review and reference page is written in the appropriate APA format. Correctly identifies the independent and dependent variables. If applicable, the student must correctly identify the moderator, mediator, and/or extraneous variables. The appropriate research method is clearly stated by the researcher. In addition, the student explains why the identified research method is appropriate. The student correctly identifies and states who the subjects will be in the research study. /20 /30 /20 /30 The student correctly states what ethical issues may arise with conducting this research. Further, the student provides explanations about how the ethical issues will be addressed in the study. Page 1 of 2 La Toya Hart, Ph. D. Final Research Assignment ED 514 Methods of Educational Research Spring 2013 /10 /20 The student appropriately addresses the procedures necessary to gain IRB approval. The student identifies the appropriate sampling method for the study. The student provides a clear rationale about the reason the research method was selected. The appropriate instrument is selected for the study. In addition, the student provides a cogent rationale about the reason the instrument was selected and identifies the type of data collection instrument. The appropriate validity and reliability tools are identified for the proposed instrument. Writing that is appropriate at the graduate level. /20 /15 /25 Total Points /300 Page 2 of 2 La Toya Hart, Ph. D. < >
Purchase answer to see full attachment
User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool's honor code & terms of service.

Explanation & Answer

Attached.

Outline: Effectiveness of advising programs in colleges
Paragraph1: Research question
a. The research question “is there a positive relationship between academic advising and
student’s development and satisfaction with college education”?
b. It is good because it is relevant, ethical, interesting and has yes or no answer.
c. The question is relevant because it addresses critical issues in college education setting. It
also requires yes or no answer.
Paragraph 2: The research problem/topic worthy of investigation
a. It is worth investigating the topic “advising academics in colleges” because it directly
contributes to the success of students.
b. Academic advising plays a leading role in supporting students in their academic journey
Paragraph 3: A mini literature review
a. Academic advising is an interesting subject and has attracted research from many
scholars. Some have written academic articles while others conducted empirical studies
on the topic.
b. Majority of empirical studies focuses on the influence of academic advising on students’
satisfaction.
Paragraph 4: Appropriate research method
a. The most appropriate method to address the research is interviews.
Paragraph 5: Interviews is would be most appropriate
a. Interviews would be the most appropriate method to collect data because it allows for
broad data collection.
Paragraph 6: The proposed subjects for your study

a. The population of the study will consist of people from different races, colleges, age,
level of study and gender. A total of 25 people will take part in the study.
Paragraph 7: Sampling method
a. I would use purposive sampling for the proposed study.
b. It is the most appropriate method because it would enable me to select participants based
on the target characteristics.

Paragraph 8: The ethical concerns that may arise with conducting the research
a. Ethical issues are common in all studies that involves human and animal subjects.
b. The main ethical concern in this study is privacy and confidentiality of the participants.
Paragraph 9: The IRB category that this research will fall into
a. The study falls in the category of except because it is educational and have little effects
on the participants.
Paragraph 10: The proposed instrument
a. I will use a semi-structured questionnaires with open and closed questions.
Paragraph 11: The validity and reliability of the proposed instrument
a. In this case the instrument for collecting data is a semi-structured interview
questionnaire.
b. It is a valid instrument because many scholars have used it in previous studies to collect
data. It is a known method of collecting qualitative data.


CAPSTONE PROJECT

1

Capstone Project
Name
Instructor
Course
Date

CAPSTONE PROJECT

2

Effectiveness of advising programs in colleges
Research question
The research question, "is there a positive relationship between academic advising and
student's development and satisfaction with a college education"? The researc...


Anonymous
I was struggling with this subject, and this helped me a ton!

Studypool
4.7
Trustpilot
4.5
Sitejabber
4.4

Similar Content

Related Tags