Final Project Choose a human services research topic of your choice. Complete only Week 1 portion. Introduction, Problem Statement, and Purpose of Study. Please cite all references throughout the work and provide reference page. APA format. Utililze the template provided for submission

Final Project
Choose a human services research topic of your choice.
Complete only Week 1 and Week 2 portions. Introduction, Problem Statement, and Purpose of Study. Please cite all references throughout the work and provide reference page. APA format.

Utililze the template provided for submission

To prepare for this Application:
Review the Campbell and Stanley text, Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research. (The designs listed above in the discussion assignment)
Consider the focus of the quantitative research you would like to propose for this course, your personal interests, and the designs presented in Campbell and Stanley.

The assignment:

Complete the following sections of the Final Project Template:

The background of the problem (Introduction section). This should only be 1-2 paragraphs long. (In the template this is the Introduction sectionthe Background of Problem section is where your literature review will go that you do in Week 9).

The problem statement (Problem Statement section). Here is an example of a well written problem statement:

While healthcare industry and academia have come to a consensus in regards to identifying and defining competencies as well as on the development of competency models for the field (Stefl, 2008), this does not ensure acceptance or utilization (Calhoun et al., 2009). Additionally, even though CAHME began requiring the use of competency models for accreditation in 2008 (CAHME, 2014a), a gap still appears to exist between employer competency expectations of early careerists and the graduates that healthcare administration programs are producing (Friedman & Frogner, 2010). As healthcare administration programs have transitioned to using competency education, the responsibility of educating and developing the future leaders of the healthcare industry has fallen directly to the faculty of these programs. However, healthcare administration faculty perceptions have not been gathered or analyzed. Therefore, the problem that this study will address is that the perceptions of graduate level healthcare administration faculty in regards to using the competency approach, it effectiveness on graduate preparedness, and employer competency expectations have not been considered in the past and there is a disconnect between the perceptions of students, the perceptions of employers, and the perceptions of faculty. This study will hopefully determine what the disconnect may be between student perceptions and employer expectations of preparedness since faculty is the linking factor between these two groups.

The Purpose of Study section (This section is where you have to tell the reader why they should care about this and what you can do with the information from the study to improve or solve the problem). This should be 1-2 paragraphs long. Here is an example of a well written Purpose of Study:

Driven by employer expectations and the accreditation bodies and professional organizations, the competency approach has been adopted by healthcare administration programs. This implies that the competency approach is seen as an appropriate method to address the needs of the healthcare industry and that it can assist the programs in preparing their graduates. Employers have stated that it is the responsibility of faculty to educate and develop healthcare administration graduates (Archer & Davison, 2008; Calhoun, Davidson, Sinioris, Vincent, & Griffith, 2002; Cassidy, 2006; Umbach & Wawrzynski, 2005), with the assumption that graduates will be adequately prepared to meet employer competency expectations as they enter the workplace. While other academic arenas have assessed their facultys perceptions related to various aspects of using the competency approach (Brooks, 2010; Day, Lovato, Tull, & Ross-Gordon, 2011; Lane & Bogue, 2010; Leveson, 2000; Numminen, et al., 2014; Singh, 2005; Tanyel, Mitchella, & McAlumb, 1999), there is limited research on healthcare administration faculty perceptions and competency education. Determining the perceptions of healthcare administration faculty in regards to using the competency approach, its effectiveness on graduate preparedness, and employer competency expectations will help educational programs and professional organizations address faculty concerns about this educational approach and add to faculty development efforts.

Complete the Research Question section including your Research Question, Hypotheses, and Variables in the final project templatelist out your independent and dependent variables.


2.Complete the Data Collection part of the final project template. State whether survey or Internet research methods would be appropriate to your research questions and why. You also need to discuss two other methods of data collection that you considered and why these are not appropriate. You will be adding and fine tuning this section later in the term as well.



Here is a template of what to put in this section and in which order
1.Identify and describe the data collection method you are going to use (survey, internet, etc.).
2.Talk about the methods strengths.
3.Talk about the methods weaknesses.
4.Talk about one method that is not appropriate and why.
5.Talk about the other method that is not appropriate and why.
6.Complete the Research Design section of the final project template. Include a thorough explanation of the research design you have chosen to answer your research question, and produce a justification for it. You also need to discuss two other designs that you considered and why these are not appropriate. Refer back to the research designs that were discussed by you and your classmates in the Week 1 discussion. You need to choose one of these that is appropriate for your research question.

Here is a template of what to put in this section and in which order
1.Identify and describe the design you are going to use.
2.Talk about the design strengths.
3.Talk about the design weaknesses.
4.Talk about one design that is not appropriate and why.
5.Talk about the other design that is not appropriate and why.



Additional Resources to help with this weeks discussion and assignment:

http://libguides.usc.edu/content.php?pid=83009&sid=618412

Research Questions:

http://writingcenter.gmu.edu/?p=307

http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/46968_CH_3.pdf

Hypotheses:

http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/fattah/courses/empirical/10.htm

Independent vs. Dependent variables:

http://www2.uncp.edu/home/collierw/ivdv.htm

http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/variable.php

http://www.memphis.edu/sociology/pdfs/MAC-Computer_Lab_2.pdf