Campus Violence for K-12 Setting Term Paper

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Campus Violence for K-12 Setting and accurate before referencing the material.

What measurable outcome do you choose to explain? In other words, what is the dependent variable that you will study?

The number of students in the K-12 setting that have experienced campus violence first-hand from other students to the severity of requiring some form of medical attention is the dependent variable I will study.

How would you measure the outcome?

The school nurse and administrators would be vital in measuring this outcome, as they would be able to keep track of any students sent to the nurse for medical attention or sent to the hospital from school due to injury from other students. This study would be best performed over a length of time so that records can be kept, as opposed to attempting to recall from memory or correlate student records to gather past information.


Identify a measurable causal influence on your chosen outcome that is not subject to intervention? In other words, what is the independent variable in your study?

The independent variable would be what time period of day the most campus violence occurred. For example, are the most incidents occurring before school, during lunch period, between classes, after school, or while classes are being cut?

4) How would you measure (categorize or scale) the causal influence.

Individual incidents would be recorded and then percentages would be calculated. Straightforward percentages would be calculated, such as what percentage of violent incidents occur during each block of time (such as before school or during lunch period), and also calculate how many incidents per block of time (such as how many incidents occur per….....

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