Guidelines for Developing your Topic, Literature Review, and Experimental Question ANALYSIS IN PRACTICE PART 2
THE TOPIC YOU WILL BE USING IS UPLOADED AS ANALYSIS IN PRACTICE PROPOSAL (2) IS PART 1 OF THIS ASSIGMENT PLEASE READ THE DOCUMENT FULLY TO UNDERSTAND THE TOPIC BECAUSE IT IS THE FIRST PART TO THIS ASSIGNMENT AND YOU WILL BE ADDING TO PART 1 OF THE ASSIGNMENT WITH THESE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW, YOU WILL NEED 10 ADDITIONAL ARTICLES THAT ARE RELEVANT TO THE TOPIC: PLEASE READ CAREFULLY EACH DETAIL AND ALSO READ THE RUBERIC AS IT IT IS CRUCIAL TO HELO YOU SUCCEED
- Topic (2-3 paragraphs): Describe the behavioral issue you intend to address. Here, you will describe the general topic, or behavioral issue, you are interested in studying. This topic should involve efforts to improve behavior in ways that may include decreasing behavioral excesses (treating problem behaviors), resolving behavioral deficits (teaching new behaviors, increasing positive behaviors, etc.), improving performances (e.g., improving adherence to safety policies in a business, improving athletic performances, etc.), or some other program of behavior change. For most students, you will be proposing to implement and experimentally analyze the effects of an intervention in a clinical/practice setting. You will probably want to choose a type of problem/issue you’ll be likely to encounter in your chosen area of practice.
- Literature Review (length may vary, several paragraphs): Describe how behavior analysts have addressed the issue you identified. Discuss the relevant research, present strengths and limitations of various approaches, and identify/justify the approach you intend to propose.
- Experimental Question (1 paragraph): Provide a clear and concise statement of the question you intend to answer with your project. In most cases, this will be phrased as “The goal of this project is to analyze the effects of (intervention) on (behavior).” However, other questions may be appropriate (e.g., “The goal of this project is to analyze the extent to which the effects of (intervention) generalize to (other environments, interventionists, etc.)”, etc.). Any secondary questions also should be stated.
Specific Instructions for the Literature Review
- The literature review process should first start with summarizing 10 articles in a table.
- You will need to use more stringent search terms to find articles relevant to your topic without becoming overwhelmed. You can also use the Journal List provided in the Resource module to determine which journals are more likely to be useful and helpful.
- Summarize the results of your literature review in a table that includes the following information. You may create the table in Word or Excel. You may add more information to the table if it is helpful for you, but you must include all the following information:
- Author(s) and year of study
- Dependent Variable(s)
- Independent Variable(s)
- Experimental Question
- Social Validity Measures
- Outcome(s)
- You must include at least 10 articles in the table.
- You do not need to summarize 10 articles in the narrative portion of the literature review, but rather take 5 or so of the most relevant articles and summarize them in the narrative.
- Summarize the results of your literature review in a table that includes the following information. You may create the table in Word or Excel. You may add more information to the table if it is helpful for you, but you must include all the following information:
- IMPORTANT: The table is intended to help provide you with a good overview of the “state of the science” related to your topic and to help organize your approach. Although you will submit this table, you are also expected to integrate the information from your table into a narrative flow (similar to the Introduction section of a published study). When you submit the final version of this paper at the end of the semester, you will NOT include the table in that paper.
- Write the narrative of the introduction using the information summarize from the table.
Grading Rubric
- Topic. (25 points total)
- Describe an issue that would be appropriate and important for a practitioner to address (15 points)
- Describe a specific behavior to be changed or addressed (10 points)
- Literature review. (60 points total)
- Include 10 articles (10 points)
- Describe past research (15 points)
- Describe strengths of current approach/research base (10 points)
- Describe limitations of current approach/research base (10 points)
- Provide a justification for the approach selected (15 points)
- Experimental Question. (15 points)
- Provide a clear, concise statement of the practice question to be addressed (15 points)
- E.g., “This analysis will evaluate the effects of intervention X on behavior Y.”
- Provide a clear, concise statement of the practice question to be addressed (15 points)