HHS 4M Yet Another Snow Day

Another great chance to get things finished!!

HHS 4M students should take advantage of today's snow day to finish up outstanding assignments and get a good chunk on their final evaluation finished. IT IS STILL DUE TUESDAY DEC 15th

Remember:

Your final evaluation is a comparison essay. Here is your chance for opinions and analysis. Compare the information you gathered in your literature review to the information you gathered in your own research. You essay will be APA style again and will have sections with headings to guide the reader. Your first section will be the introduction, followed by "Literature Review Summary", "Research Summary" "Comparison" "Reliability and Validity" "Limitations" "Recommendations and Conclusions"

The comparison section will be the largest section - the "meat and potatoes" of your essay. Reliability and validity answers the questions did my research find what I set out to do? If I did the research again would I get the same results? - refer to the definitions below. Discuss also your limitations - consider time, location, sample size etc. You may combine these two sections if you like there are no hard and fast rules. In the conclusion section be sure to summarize your paper, make recommendations for improvements and for future study.

Marking Scheme Title page 1 Headings to guide the reader 1 Pages numbered in top right corner 1 Abbreviated title in top right corner as a header 1 Introduction: -restates the purpose of your research 3 -indicates the direction of the paper 3 (what will your paper cover?) Body -summarizes findings of lit review (briefly) 4 -summarizes findings of your research (briefly) 4 -compares the lit review and primary research 10 -addresses reliability and validity 4 -limitations of your study (size of sample etc) 4 Conclusion/Recommendations -summarizes paper -lists recommendations for further study 3 - lists suggestions or improvements 3 References -separate page. APA style 5 Spelling/grammar 5 /52 Reliability - extent to which a measurement procedure measures something consistently. If your study was repeated would you get the same results? Reliability: the extent to which a measurement procedure measures something consistently. If your study ValiValidity - the extent to which a measurement procedure measures what it is supposed to measure - the relevance of a measure. Did your study measure/delve into what it was supposed to? Validity: the extent to which a measurement procedure measures what it is supposed to measure: the rele

Remember that you will need a references page for only the sources you used in the essay