Critical Reading & Thoughtful (Communal) Engagement

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InstructionsAssignment 3: Critical Reading & Thoughtful (Communal) EngagementIn order to write effectively in psychology, you need to learn to read critically and to observe how professional psycholog

Instructions
Assignment 3: Critical Reading & Thoughtful (Communal) Engagement
In order to write effectively in psychology, you need to learn to read critically and to observe how professional psychologists present their research to peers.Once you have determined that the sources you are reading are solid and worth using (which is quite a challenge in and of itself), your quest becomes the articulation of a research question or working hypothesis that will guide the writing you do subsequently to your reading.It definitely takes a certain amount of skill to be able to look at a journal article and pick it apart in order to determine things like the significance of the results and/or the soundness of the methodology. That said, it takes all the more skill to be able to take the ideas found in one or more journal articles and turn them into your own words, your own understandings, and your own synthesis of the works engaged.But skill is not enough. You also need honest and timely feedback from others (e.g., your peers, your instructor, etc.).Effective writing is done in community, meaning that it is not done in isolation. From start to finish, the more you include the careful scrutiny of your writing by others, the better off you and your writing will be.For M1: Assignment 3 select one peer-reviewed article related to be your focal/research question.Ideally, you will find this article by conducting an online library search in the AUO library specifying “peer-reviewed” as one of the search criteria. When you have chosen your article, write a review/critique of the study.Your review should include the following:

  • The main topic and focus or thesis of the journal article.
  • The argument the author is making and its relevance to the focal/research question.
  • The type of article—published, original research, meta-analysis, or reflection piece.
  • The key findings of the study.
  • Your opinion about the merits of the study, including future points of interest or research.

Your review should be approximately 100-150 words in length, should contain proper grammar and spelling, and should follow APA format regarding structure (e.g., title page and references page) and citation of sources.Submit it to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.Assignment 3 Grading Criteria

  • Includes main topic and focus or thesis of the selected article.
  • Presents author’s argument and its relevance to student’s focal/research question.
  • Identifies type of article.
  • Discusses key findings of the study.
  • Discusses opinion about merits of the study, including suggestions for future research.
  • Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources, displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation and proper APA formatting

Explained what it means to set alpha at .05.

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InstructionsAssignment 2: Conducting a z-TestA researcher predicts that watching a film on institutionalization will change students’ attitudes about chronically mentally ill patients. The researche

Instructions
Assignment 2: Conducting a z-Test
A researcher predicts that watching a film on institutionalization will change students’ attitudes about chronically mentally ill patients. The researcher randomly selects a class of 36 students, shows them the film, and gives them a questionnaire about their attitudes. The mean score on the questionnaire for these 36 students is 70. The score for people in general on this questionnaire is 75, with a standard deviation of 12. Using the five steps of hypothesis testing and the 5% significance level (i.e. alpha = .05), does showing the film change students’ attitudes towards the chronically mentally ill?

  1. What does it mean to set alpha at .05?
  2. What is your null hypothesis? Alternate hypothesis?
  3. Is this a one-tailed or two-tailed hypothesis?
  4. What is the critical z?
  5. Calculate the obtained z. Do you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis?
  6. State in words what you have found.

By the due date assigned, deliver your assignment to the Submissions Area.
Assignment 3 Grading Criteria

  • Explained what it means to set alpha at .05.
  • Correctly identified the null and alternative hypotheses.
  • Correctly identified and explained whether theirs is a one-tailed or two-tailed hypothesis.
  • Correctly identified the critical z.
  • Used obtained z and explained whether one would reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis, and state in words what the findings were.
  • Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

What does it mean to say the files were randomly selected?

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Assignment 1: Discussion: Random SelectionA random selection of files from a student counseling center revealed the following reasons why college students seek services:Mental health issues

Assignment 1: Discussion: Random Selection
A random selection of files from a student counseling center revealed the following reasons why college students seek services:
Mental health issues             25
Learning/school issues        15
Relationship issues                5
Other                                             5

  1. What does it mean to say the files were randomly selected?
  2. How would the researcher randomly select files? In other words, what does the process look like?
  3. What is the probability that if we pulled another student file from the counseling center the student would fall in each of the following categories a) mental health issues, b) learning/school issues OR relationship issues, c) any category except other?
  4. Would our probabilities and results be different if we used convenience sampling? Why or why not?

By the due date assigned, post your response to the discussion in the Discussion Area below.
Grading Criteria

  • Quality of initial posting, including fulfillment of assignment instructions
  • Quality of responses to classmates
  • Frequency of responses to classmates
  • Reference to supporting readings and other materials
  • Language and grammar

Describe an intervention you would implement to promote resiliency

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socw 6060 Dis-1Social workers strive to make informed decisions about the interventions they implement. These decisions should be driven by what the research data say. As a result, social workers ha

 socw 6060 Dis-1
Social workers strive to make informed decisions about the interventions they implement. These decisions should be driven by what the research data say. As a result, social workers have been called to systematically evaluate the effectiveness of the interventions they implement. A common way to evaluate interventions is to use a single-subject design. This involves monitoring an outcome for an intervention implemented for one client. After a social worker works with the client to determine the outcome to be measured, the following steps to the evaluation might look like this:

  • Administer the instrument before the intervention is implemented
  • Implement the intervention
  • Administer the same instrument, after a specified time period
  • Monitor to determine if there have been any changes in the outcome

In this Discussion, you use the lens of resiliency theory when reflecting on a case from your fieldwork, and then you consider how to measure the effectiveness of a possible intervention.
To prepare, read this article listed in the Learning Resources:

  • Smith-Osborne, A., & Whitehill Bolton K. (2013). Assessing resilience: A review of measures across the life course. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 10(2), 111–126. doi:10.1080/15433714.2011.597305

Post:

  • Reflect on your fieldwork experience, and identify a case where it would have been beneficial to employ resiliency theory. Describe the case in 2 sentences.
  • Describe the presenting problem in one concise sentence.
  • Describe an intervention you would implement to promote resiliency.
  • Identify an instrument from the Smith-Osborne and Whitehill Bolton’s article that would be appropriate when employing a single-subject design to evaluate how effective the intervention is in increasing the client’s level of resiliency.
  • Explain why you selected the instrument.
    • In other words, why would the instrument be appropriate? (Consider the age of the client and for whom the instrument was designed, how feasible it would be to administer the instrument such as cost, time to administer it, et.