motivation to learn, followed by an educated and informed research question. After the research question has been narrowed down, the researcher conceptualizes how the question may be answered feasibly, within the constraints of time and budget. Such Continue Reading...
The data collected will be ordinal, largely strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree type of answers. This is practical because we are trying to gauge not only whether the sentiment exists, but the intensity of the sentiment on the part o Continue Reading...
Technology and children's attention spans
I decided to select the topic of the impact of technology on children's attention spans because it was of great personal interest to me. Like many young people, I have heard adults complain that my generati Continue Reading...
Lie With Statistics
Huff, Darrell. How to lie with statistics. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1993.
'There is terror in numbers.' Darrell Huff was not a statistician. However, he wrote his 1954 classic How to lie with statistics to help his math Continue Reading...
Affection and Its Impact on Adult Growth and Development
Affection is considered to be the characteristics of the human mind that is frequently connected with feelings and emotions of love. In terms of psychology, it is defined as an emotion or the Continue Reading...
According to both testimonials and statistics, educated people report higher levels of personal happiness and job satisfaction. In her book, Nickel and Dimed, comfortably wealthy author Barbara Ehrenreich reports being taken out for a "$30 lunch an Continue Reading...
Oil Price History
Similar to other goods’ prices, crude oil prices undergo major fluctuations during surfeit or dearth of crude oil. This particular product’s price cycle can span over many years, reacting to both demand variations and no Continue Reading...
Music
The field of music therapy is an emerging one in medical practice. Nevertheless, there is a growing body of research to support the use of music therapy in a wide range of instances, one of which includes patients who are suffering from brain Continue Reading...
Goals Athletes Set in Training and Competition
Perhaps the biggest mistake a researcher can make it to assume that if research has been done, that means the research is good research. In actuality, there is a significant amount of bad research avai Continue Reading...
Nagel, L., A.S. Blignautb and J.C. Cronje. (2009). Read-only participants: a case for student communication in online classes. Interactive Learning Environments, 17 (1): 37 -- 51.
According to Nagel (2009), student participation in online classes ca Continue Reading...
For instance, using the Cultural Competence and Confidence model we are able to explain, describe, influence, and hopefully predict learning and development of cultural competency within a specific care paradigm. Because this model is interrelated a Continue Reading...
For example, unequal protection may result from land-use decisions that determine the location of residential amenities and disamenities. Unincorporated, poor, and communities of color often suffer a "triple" vulnerability of noxious facility siting Continue Reading...
and, for what it is worth, there are no studies that conclusively prove thus far that eating organic leads to better human health, and even if there may be some anecdotal evidence that eating organic makes people 'feel better,' such organic consumer Continue Reading...