This paper will be the second component of your final project research paper.
For this assignment, you will describe the method you used to conduct your study and report your findings. To be able to complete this assignment, you will need to:
• Identify the behaviors you will be looking for in your study and devise a method for recording them.
• Understand and apply the ethics of naturalistic observation.
• Conduct your research in two 20-minute periods.
When you have completed this groundwork, write a 5-7-page, double-spaced paper, in which you:
• Describe your research activities. What did you do?
• Comment on your ethical obligations or challenges.
• Describe what you saw. What did you notice?
• Analyze your results.
• Identify the major themes that emerged.
• Analyze your results in relationship to the themes.
• Support this analysis with 4-5 references to the literature.
For this assignment, you can include up to two references from a current source that is not a peer-reviewed journal, such as a news article or a government report. Be sure to format your references in APA sixth edition style.
Note: Before submitting this assignment, remember to submit your paper to Turnitin for review of proper referencing. If you receive a report that has a high percentage of referencing issues, you must make changes in your paraphrasing, summarizing, or use of direct quotes in your paper. It is a good goal to get your Turnitin report percentage below 15 percent.
Note: Your instructor may also use the APA Writing Feedback Rubric to provide additional feedback on your academic writing. The writing feedback rubric does not affect your assignment grade, but its feedback may factor into the grading criteria, if professional communication and writing is a course competency. Evaluate your own work using this rubric. Refer to the Learner Guide for instructions on viewing instructor feedback.
Criteria
Analyze a test's items and procedures for appropriateness and fairness for its intended purpose and population.
Non performance
Does not analyze a test's items and procedures for appropriateness and fairness for its intended purpose and population.
Basic
Describes but does not analyze a test's items and procedures for appropriateness and fairness for its intended purpose and population.
Proficient
Analyzes a test's items and procedures for appropriateness and fairness for its intended purpose and population.
Distinguished
Evaluates a test's items and procedures for appropriateness and fairness for its intended purpose and population.
Criteria
Analyze a test's materials for appropriateness and fairness for its intended purpose and population.
Non performance
Does not analyze a test's materials for appropriateness and fairness for its intended purpose and population.
Basic
Describes but does not analyze a test's materials for appropriateness and fairness for its intended purpose and population.
Proficient
Analyzes a test's materials for appropriateness and fairness for its intended purpose and population.
Distinguished
Evaluates a test's materials for appropriateness and fairness for its intended purpose and population.
Criteria
Analyze how advances in technology have been utilized to address issues of test items, procedures, and appropriate and fair usage.
Non performance
Does not analyze how advances in technology have been utilized to address issues of test items, procedures, and appropriate and fair usage.
Basic
Describes but does not analyze how advances in technology have been utilized to address issues of test items, procedures, and appropriate and fair usage.
Proficient
Analyzes how advances in technology have been utilized to address issues of test items, procedures, and appropriate and fair usage.
Distinguished
Evaluates how advances in technology have been utilized to address issues of test items, procedures, and appropriate and fair usage.
Criteria
Implement referencing, heading, and format elements of current APA style.
Non performance
Does not implement referencing, heading, and format elements of current APA style.
Basic
Implements some referencing, heading, and format elements of current APA style, but there are many deviations or omissions.
Proficient
Implements referencing, heading, and format elements of current APA style.
Distinguished
Implements referencing, heading, and format elements of current APA style, the writing reflects the quality and expertise expected for doctoral-level work.