Focu on File (attachment): Wk 6 group semi-final-
My section of this assignment is:
*CHAPTER 2 – REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
*And writing the conclusion
Please see attached. My group members have already written some of their parts. My
The focus is on just chapter 2 and writing the conclusion. (if you have any suggestions
please let me know)
Instructions:
(INTERNAL STUDY, NOT DONE)
Note to submit in word documents only (doc,docx)
Instructor graded, no member evaluation for this report.
In Week 6, you are turning in a complete final paper.
The idea is that I will read through the Week 6 reports and provide feedback
fwhich will help you in your presenation in Week 7. Using the document BA 100 Cohort
Study Report complete the following: Chapter 4: Findings of the
Survey, Chapter 5: Conclusions and Recommendations, Executive Summary.
Likewise, complete the missing information from the Title Page, Table of
Contents, List of Tables, and List of figures.
General clarifications:
– Please only use the tables which are provided in
your BA 100 Cohort Study Report Template – you do NOT need to add any
additional tables. It is OK to copy and paste them or re-create them – it is up
to you, but only use the provided tables (do NOT use your tables from Qualtrics
from Week 5).
– You DO need to add some of the graphs you have
created (ideally reusing the ones from last week’s assignment…or
creating new ones if you did not have all the graphs for Week 5). You do NOT need
a graph for every table. Please use graphs sparingly where
you see fit. Graphs are great, but the paper does not flow well if there are 25
graphs in it.
– Please also make sure you discuss/interpret the
chi-square statistics where applicable.
Here is an example of
what the text with your tables might look like (it is in the BA 100
Cohort Study Report template).
Some additional recommendations:
Executive Summary
The executive summary should include all key findings (a few
of you wrote the Executive Summary section in Week 4 as an introduction, but
that is NOT the purpose of the executive summary). I recommend writing a
shorter intro/background part and certainly including sufficient information on
the results, implications, and recommendations (they are more important).
For the executive summary, and even more for the paper as a
whole, write as if you are writing for someone who has no idea what
this study is about – explain the null hypothesis, the cohorts, the
tests you conducted, etc.
Findings
Ideally, this section will have three main sub-sections:
Student Demographic Profile, Student Experiences and Perceptions, and Plans
to Return
1. First, you should summarize the overall respondent demographics.
Then, demographics broken down by the three class sections – summarize the
percentages and then add findings from the crosstabulation (p-values from Week
5 papers). That takes care of RQ1.
2. Then, move on to the Experience and Perceptions section –
summarize all the means first, followed by explanations of the crosstabulations
with p-values. Starting with text, then table, then text, then table (graphs in
between where applicable). This section will answer RQ 2 and RQ 3.
See the Xu et al. article as an example of how to summarize the means for the
responses.
*Please note that the Xu et al. (2016) example has some tables bunched
together, which is not recommended, but that is probably due to journal
formatting.
3. Then, Plans to Return to SOU – summarize the percentages
and the p-values, as well as the chi-square as it is provided, followed by the
tables. That section answers RQ 4 and RQ 5.
Lastly, although only three reasons were mentioned, a sentence or two
summarizing reasons for not returning should be added, as that
answers RQ6.
Do NOT include any pasted tables from Qualtrics – use
ONLY the provided tables.
Every table and figure MUST be referenced in the text. If
you don’t have any text that is related to the table, then you probably should
add something (since all tables are required).
Please also make sure that you explain what
statistical tests were run, providing the p-value. In
previous years, I have seen papers that say: “data was significant.” That is
not clear – explain which variable, what test, etc. The correct way to
reference a p-value is in parenthesis and in italics (p=
0.001). Only include three decimal points for the p-value.
Provide the chi-square results when available (see provided tables).
See the Xu et al. journal article that
includes summaries of demographic characteristics and other data. Please skim
through the Results and Discussion, and Implications sections. You will be able
to see the language that has been used, get ideas on how to present the
summaries, what section headings to add, formatting, etc. Please note
that some of the tables in this article are grouped together… try to spread
your tables out as you are writing a report, not a journal article.
Conclusions and Recommendations
There is no need to repeat any of the numbers from the
findings section; the p-values were listed in the previous section.
In this section, you only need to answer the research questions, say
whether the hypothesis was rejected or failed to reject… and what that
means – answer the “so what” question.
Provide recommendations based on the data and
suggest ideas for future studies (what could/should have been done to
obtain better data or information, how can the study be expanded,
etc.). Once again, you can take a look at the Xu et al. (2016) article for
some ideas on the language to use.
Formatting
Make sure that the paper flows well – do not copy
ten tables and graphs together – spread them out in between text.
See correct section heading levels according to APA style
below:
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/headings