Examples Of Experimental And Nonexperimental Research Design.

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3 DQ 1

Experimental research: Experimental Research Design is a scientific approach to research. Where one or more independent variables are manipulated. And applied to one or more dependent variables to measure their effect on the latter. The effect of the independent variables on the dependent variables is usually observed and recorded over some time. To aid researchers to draw a reasonable conclusion regarding the relationship between these two variable types (Blog, 2021). An example of experimental research is a test to know the effect of a new drug. Intended to treat a certain medical condition like dementia.

If a sample of a dementia patient is randomly divided into three groups. With the first group receiving a high dosage of the drug. The second receiving a low dose and the third group receive a placebo. Such as a sugar pill, then the first two groups are experimental groups and the third is a control group. After administering the drug for a while, if the condition of the experimental group subjects improved significantly more than the control group subjects, we can say that the drug is effective. We can also compare the conditions of the high and low dosage experimental groups to determine if the high dose is more effective than the low dose.

Non-experimental research

Non-experimental research: Non-experimental research is the type of research that does not involve the manipulation of control or independent variable. In non-experimental research, researchers measure variables as they naturally occur without any further manipulation. Correlational is classified as non-experimental because it does not manipulate the dependent variables. For example, if a researcher may wish to investigate the relationship between the class of family students come from and their grade in school. A questionnaire may be given to students to know the average income of their family, then compare it with CGPAs (Blog, 2021). The researcher will discover whether these two factors are positively correlated, negatively corrected, or have zero correlation at the end of the research.

Controlled allows the experimenter to minimize the effect of factors other than the one being tested. It’s how to know an experiment is testing the things it claims to be testing (Crotty, 2018). In experimental research, researchers can control and manipulate control variables, while in non-experimental research, researchers cannot manipulate these variables (Blog, 2021).

Provide examples of experimental and nonexperimental research design. Contrast the levels of control applied to each.

Using 200-300 APA format with at least two references to support this dicussion

Workplace Environment Assessment

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In this Assignment, you will propose a change within your organization. And present a comprehensive plan to implement the change you propose.

To Prepare:

  • Review the Resources and identify one change that you believe is called for in your organization/workplace.
    • This may be a change necessary to effectively address one or more of the issues you addressed in the Workplace Environment Assessment you submitted in Module 4. It may also be a change in response to something not addressed in your previous efforts. It may be beneficial to discuss your ideas with your organizational leadership and/or colleagues to help identify and vet these ideas.
  • Reflect on how you might implement this change and how you might communicate this change to organizational leadership.

The Assignment PowerPoint presentation:

Change Implementation and Management Plan

Create a narrated PowerPoint presentation of 12 slides that presents a comprehensive plan to implement the change you propose.

Your Change Implementation and Management Plan should include the following:

  • An executive summary of the issues that are currently affecting your organization/workplace (This can include the work you completed in your Workplace Environment Assessment previously submitted, if relevant.)
  • A description of the change being proposed
  • Justifications for the change, including why addressing it will have a positive impact on your organization/workplace
  • Details about the type and scope of the proposed change
  • Identification of the stakeholders impacted by the change
  • Identification of a change management team (by title/role)
  • A plan for communicating the change you propose
  • A description of risk mitigation plans you would recommend to address the risks anticipated by the change you propose

healthcare practitioners

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The collection of evidence is an activity that occurs with an endgame in mind. For example, law enforcement professionals collect evidence to support a decision to charge those accused of criminal activity. Similarly, evidence-based healthcare practitioners collect evidence to support decisions in pursuit of specific healthcare outcomes.

In this Assignment, you will identify an issue or opportunity for change within your healthcare organization and propose an idea for a change in practice supported by an EBP approach.

To Prepare:

  • Reflect on the four peer-reviewed articles you critically appraised in Module 4, related to your clinical topic of interest and PICOT.
  • Reflect on your current healthcare organization and think about potential opportunities for evidence-based change, using your topic of interest and PICOT as the basis for your reflection.
  • Consider the best method of disseminating the results of your presentation to an audience.

The Assignment: (Evidence-Based Project)

Part 4: Recommending an Evidence-Based Practice Change

Create an 8- to 9-slide narrated PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:

  • Briefly describe your healthcare organization, including its culture and readiness for change. (You may opt to keep various elements of this anonymous, such as your company name.)
  • Describe the current problem or opportunity for change. Include in this description the circumstances surrounding the need for change, the scope of the issue, the stakeholders involved, and the risks associated with change implementation in general.
  • Propose an evidence-based idea for a change in practice using an EBP approach to decision making. Note that you may find further research needs to be conducted if sufficient evidence is not discovered.
  • Describe your plan for knowledge transfer of this change, including knowledge creation, dissemination, and organizational adoption and implementation.
  • Explain how you would disseminate the results of your project to an audience. Provide a rationale for why you selected this dissemination strategy.
  • Describe the measurable outcomes you hope to achieve with the implementation of this evidence-based change.
  • Be sure to provide APA citations of the supporting evidence-based peer reviewed articles you selected to support your thinking.
  • Add a lessons learned section that includes the following:
    • A summary of the critical appraisal of the peer-reviewed articles you previously submitted
    • An explanation about what you learned from completing the Evaluation Table within the Critical Appraisal Tool Worksheet Template (1-3 slides)

Active Listening

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Active Listening

The following questions will give you a chance to self-evaluate, to think about what you’ve been learning in this course, and to draw your own conclusions about how you can apply your communication skill in your life. Your answers may be used to determine how to improve the program for future students. Your answers will not be used for marketing purposes. Please respond in a paragraph of at least 5–7 sentences to fully address the questions. Be sure to use your own words!

  • What were your greatest takeaways from completing the assignment on active listening and responding?
  • In what ways do you feel prepared to use your communication skill after completing the assignment? If you don’t feel prepared, share why.

Blurb: (Sandburg And Frost)

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Blurb: Compare And Contrast (Sandburg And Frost)

To complete this assignment, you will write a one-page blurb.  A blurb is a response to literature incorporating specific passages or lines from literary works and citing those pages or lines.

1.  For this assignment, you will read the following poems by Robert Frost and Carl Sanburg.

Robert Frost’s
“The Pasture”
“Mending Wall”
“The Road Not Taken”

Carl Sandburg”s
“Chicago”
“Fog”
“Grass”

2.  Consider how Frost’s poems focus more on nature in a pastoral setting and Sandburg’s poems focus on nature in a city setting.  Write a blurb that explains how each poet accomplishes the use of nature in the different settings while staying within the confines of the characteristic of  literature written from 1914-1945.

3.  Keep in mind, the blurb can be no longer than one page, double spaced, 12 font, no heading on the page.

local color realism and mainstream realism

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Local color or regional literature is fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, topography. And other features particular to a specific region. Influenced by Southwestern and Down East humor. Between the Civil War and the end of the nineteenth century this mode of writing became dominant in American literature.

In mainstream realistic works, the author aims to make some statement about what it means to be an American. While local color literature is generally interested in regional/women’s writing [for example], mainstream realism aims for a broader scope. It is self-conscious about its aspirations—thus, it aims to make a “grand” statement on a topic of wide importance. For most realists, this means their works attempts to define the characteristics. Or the experiences most representative of the average American.

Discussion: Explain [from your perspective] how Mark Twain’s “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” can be representative of both regional/local color realism and mainstream realism at the same time.

Self-Awareness

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Self-awareness, which is sometimes also referred to as self-knowledge or introspection. Is about understanding your own needs, desires, shortcomings, habits, and everything else that makes you tick. Simply put, it just means to be “aware” of the things that make you who you are. The more you know about yourself, the better you are at adapting to life’s changes. Essentially, the more you pay attention to your emotions and how you work, the better you’ll understand why you do the things you do, your purpose.

In the article “What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate it)” author Tasha Eurich states that “Even though most people believe they are self-aware, only 10-15% of the people we studied actually fit the criteria.” How would you rate your level of self-awareness? Based on the suggestions from the article, what are some ways that you can improve your self-awareness? Use content from the article to support your response.

Why was the early sixties musical “British Invasion” so successful

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Why was the early sixties musical “British Invasion” so successful

The required minimum length of your discussion post is one paragraph for each question, which is between 100-200 words, or 5-6 sentences. However, the grade will be primarily based on the originality, unity, order, coherence, and completeness of your idea.

 

TOPICS:

  1. Why was the early sixties musical “British Invasion” so successful and warmly embraced in the United States? What makes the music of the Beatles so widely popular even today?
  2. The Doors: Do you love them or hate them?  Explain why? Was Jim Morrison ahead of his time or was he just a charlatan who mastered the art of shock value?

How is the Earth different now than before the great flood?

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How is the Earth different now than before the great flood?

Question

Prompt for Journal 1:
How is the Earth different now than before the great flood? How do you reflect on the reasons of the flood to what is happening in the world today?

Rubric 

Each Journal must be attached in a Word document to the link below. Here are the requirements:

1. Journals must be saved in a Word document and attached to the link below
2. Journals must be formatted in MLA style
3. Each journal must be 600 – 800 words
4. The journals must be a response to the prompt about the assigned reading. The answers must be analytical and insightful.
5. Do NOT summarize the story.
6. Each journal must be written in good grammar

For Journal 1 read “Genesis” Chapters 1 – 9 on pages 8 – 13.

LIFE EXPERIENCE AND VALUES

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Activity 1: Essay — Determining My Gifts

Context

Image of discussion iconThis learning activity will ask you to discern your own gifts, provide perspectives on how others view your giftedness, and allow you to reflect on the significance of their views.

Description

Please do the following:

1. Create a list of at least five gifts that you feel you have.

2. Ask two people that you are close to you to identify the gifts they see in you.

3. Compare the two lists and attempt to understand any discrepancies.

4. Write a three page paper in which you identify areas of your own giftedness. How did you determine your gifts? What surprised you about what your friends said about your gifts?

 

 

 

The other 3 gifts I want to be used is: Patience,

Trust, Loyalty

 

Patience, Trust, Loyalty

Below are my two “gifts” I chose for the discussion and the examples I used. The info below needs to be included in the essay because humor/understanding are a part of my 5 “gifts” I chose. But the stuff below just needs to be slightly rephrased (like the beginning because this essay is about 5 gifts not 2) but most of the bottom part can literally be copied and pasted wherever it fits in the essay. For the other gifts just make up examples or tie them into my examples below somehow. When it states to have 2 people ask you what your gifts are one of the options you can say is the “understanding” gift (like below I used my co-worker/close friend from work).

And you can say you asked them and that’s how you came up with “understanding” and the other one can be one of the 3 I listed above that I didn’t use in my discussion post and just tie it in with this. I am majoring in Psychology (bachelors atm) which requires knowing about mental stuff and that can be tied in too in any examples like “Psychology taught me to be patient because some people just have a lot of internal related stuff ‘blah blah blah’” or whatever helps!

HUMOR/UNDERSTANDING (gifts)

Determining My Gifts

The two gifts I would choose would be how understanding I am and the other would be my humor. I know humor could be a random gift but being able to make people genuinely laugh is one of my favorite things and hearing people tell me I’m funny (even when I’m not trying I sometimes just say things in the moment or more so to myself and it makes others giggle).

I think laughter is the best medicine especially when people have dealt with rough patches throughout their lives. It fills me with joy when I could use it as some form of distraction and make them feel that emotion instead of something negative. I adore whenever I hear the people around me that I care for laugh (even if I meet a stranger and talk with them off the bat and make them laugh it’s nice because you never know what someone is dealing with internally).

Being understanding is something I also appreciate about myself. I’m non-judgmental and always offer a safe space for people. I think that my favorite think with being understanding is when people assume that I’m not at first (because I think since I joke around a lot it could come across as childish and as though I supposedly don’t know how to be serious even though I have a balance of both). Then when the moments arise with people (especially my guy friends) who hate opening up or are selective and then they choose to confide in me it’s so beautiful to see how safe they feel opening up and knowing that I am there for them no matter what problem they are facing or situation they need to open up about.

Determining My Gifts

My close friend/co-worker actually opened up to me two weeks ago about a heartbreak he faced literally 4 years ago (took him 2 years to get over it) and some personal family/friend issues. It was ironic because he always hides his emotions by making dumb jokes and just avoiding serious conversations all together. He had like 20 minutes left in his shift and I got him to open up and he kept stating prior how he opens up rarely to anyone and after he told me some things he thanked me after for being trust worthy and listening and it just made my heart happy. 🙂

It’s tough sometimes finding people who genuinely will listen and care and not just be nosy or pretending to seem nice because some people can be over-talkative (like me) and jump from topic to topic and that requires patience and understanding and some others are vague and don’t really go into detail and that also requires patience and understanding because you kinda have to pry it out of them or wait a bit over time for them to come out of their shell. But I’m always willing to listen and help the best I can. I always try to make people know their feelings are validated no matter how minor or major the issue is.