ASSIGNMENT: Research Article Summaries
Locate two peer-reviewed research articles, and provide a summary and analysis of the articles: articles must be published within the last 5 years, articles must be peer-reviewed research, and must be in the field of Family and Consumer Sciences
Choose a topic that relates to FCS and interests you!
Search databases for two articles:
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowOffers peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources in the areas of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowA multi-disciplinary resource that includes full-text articles from several thousand journals, in virtually every area of academic study.
- ERIC (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
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Provides indexing and abstracts for journals and ERIC documents in areas relating to education at all levels. | Watch video tutorial - PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new windowPsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowContains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology
When you have two articles, identify the following:
1. Purpose of Study (1 point)
2. Theoretical Framework (If any; if none, state that) (1 point)
- Theoretical frameworks provide a particular perspective, or lens, through which to examine a topic.
- Theoretical information may be mentioned in a subheading, or referred to elsewhere in the document. Scan the document for terms such as theory, framework, conceptual, perspective, etc.
3. Summary of sample and population used in study (1 point)
4. Data collection methods used in research (1 point)
5. Summary of Findings/key points (3 points)
6. Implications for FCS professionals (2 points)
7. Article reference, in proper APA format, including a hyperlink to the article if found online (1 point)
ASSIGNMENT: Research Proposal Assignment
Develop a research proposal to further explore the selected topic. Ideas and observations should be transformed into a carefully designed project that could feasibly be conducted.
Your research proposal will include the following:
- Introduction
- Theoretical conceptualization
- Study Purpose
- Literature review (find at least three closely related studies)
- In this area you discuss your three articles and how they relate to one another and your topic.
- Methods
- Anticipated results
- Discussion
- Implications
- References
Is this article peer-reviewed?
- Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory This link opens in a new windowA source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types — academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world.
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