Problem
Global Ecology of the FamilyComparative Research on Cross-Cultural Families
What to do?
Students will choose from a cross cultural research article. A cross-cultural research articles are papers that has participants who are from different racial cultural backgrounds, has a methodology part, and has results and discussion sections. Please take note that the article is comparative; meaning it compares the samples or participants with culture as a factor.
What to write?
Directions:
1) Students will complete the Comparative Research on Cross-Cultural Families by answering a list of questions below using the selected article.
2) In answering the questions below, do not lift words or copy exactly the sentences in the article. PARAPHRASE or use your own words to summarize the ideas from the article.
3) Do not list your responses, but use paragraph format. Please use headings to refer to each section. For example: Aim of the study; Research Participants, Reference
Task
A. Reference or bibliographic entry of your selected article in APA (see example in the first assignment guidelines):
B. What are the aims and/or research questions of the study?
C. What concepts or ideas did the authors want to study? How were they defined in the study? Read through the literature background or the introduction part.
D. Describe the participants of the study. Since you are supposed to choose an article of a cross-cultural study on families, the participants for this study should have different cultural backgrounds. Make sure to be specific. What are these cultural backgrounds? What are the demographics of the participants?
E. What is the authors' methodology? How did the authors collect their data? What are the measurements or research tools that they used?
F. What kind of analytical procedures did the authors use to answer the research questions or achieve the aims of the study? That is, once the data was collected, how did the author analyze it.
G. What are their general findings and conclusions?
H. After the findings and conclusions, what recommendations were made by the researchers?
I. Reflection: What did you learn from doing this assignment or from reading a comparative research paper?