Rubric
The number of sections present in the rubric.
What is 6?
Multiple perspectives that build to support your own research question/statement AND Educate your audience prior to your own research method.
What should Subtopics of the Lit Review do?
Quantitative and qualitative
What are the 2 types of methods?
Provides an overview of a particular topic or problem by summarizing and explaining the most significant sources in the field.
What is the purpose of a Lit Review?
A list of questions aimed for extracting specific data from a particular group of people which may be conducted by phone, mail, via the internet, and also at street corners or in malls.
What is a survey?
Presents an overly broad topic of inquiry.
What is a score of 1 (in topic section)?
This is the heart of your paper, without a functioning __________, your paper will not make it. It needs the following: Focused topic, Purpose, Variables, Context/scope, Value, and Feasibility.
What is the research question?
When you need to generate primary data from a large number of sources to answer your research question. However, health warnings need to be attached to it and careful consideration needs to be taken before embarking on any large-scale.
What is a quantitative survey?
This assignment was done to map out what the Lit Review of each of our papers was going to be like.
What was the Web Diagram Lit Review?
These can be made out of all data (both quantitative and qualitative) and display data in an easy to visualize format.
What are graphs?
Logically defends the alignment of a detailed, replicable research method to the purpose of the inquiry.
What is a score of 4/5 (in alignment section)?
Subjects, including humans and animals, should NEVER be negatively altered due to a research experiment.
What is the proper treatment of research subjects?
This is needed to score well, to explain every choice, and to connect the method to the rest of the paper.
What is alignment?
To acquaint the reader with the field of study, establish relevance, and reveal literature gaps
Why is a Lit Review needed?
A statistical analysis that combines the results of multiple scientific studies and examines data from a number of independent studies of the same subject, in order to determine overall trends.
What is meta-analysis?
Summarizes or reports existing knowledge in the field of understanding pertaining to the topic of inquiry.
What is a score of 2 in the evidence section?
Name your topic: I am studying… 2. Imply your question: Because I want to find out who/how/why…. 3. State the rationale for the question and the project: In order to understand how/why what…
What is the 3 step process for a focused topic?
In the methodology section of the paper, there should be a detailed description of this, and how it is aligned with the research question.
What is my selected method?
Topic sentences that discuss specific authors/studies, In-depth details about a study, long paragraphs
What is a poor Lit Review?
The minimum number of studies necessary to perform meta-analysis.
What are two studies?
The three components needed to earn a 5 surrounding the conclusion (conclusion section).
What is justification through a logical progression of inquiry choices, explanation of conclusion limitations, and explanations of the implications?
Student has well-articulated research method to generate evidence to support a new understanding or new piece of knowledge which if someone else “repeated” it, that person would come up with the same understanding and validate the new piece of knowledge.
What is Capital/Big “R” in research?
The methods need to be this in order for it to be sound research, to score well, and build confidence in the scientific merit of results. The appendix may be used to show this as well.
What is replicability?
Focus a topic of inquiry with clear and narrow parameters and Explicitly connect a topic of inquiry to relevant scholarly works of varying perspectives AND logically explains how the topic addresses a gap.
What should a Lit Review (and Intro) have (according to the AP research rubric?)
A research design investigating relationships between two variables (or more) without the researcher controlling or manipulating any of them.
What is correlational research?