Post a behavioral research situation that could use a Pearson coefficient research study and a chi square research study. Present the rationale for each selection. Be very specific in your presentation.

Think about your own organization – where you work. What are the top two threats and the top two opportunities over the next five years? (I work in human resource)

Make sure you provide substantive graduate level answers emulating the Sample Works provided in the Resources link. Try to achieve the same level of substance such as the forum example.  

Make sure you use adequate, credible and reliable APA source citations to support your work.

Assume the role of a chief researcher for the state Department of Education who is examining two groups with similar educational deficiencies. One group involved in the study is a rural, ethnically-defined, aboriginal group with a high rate of health issues including diabetes, vision impairment, and heart disease. The other group is also a rural group living on family-owned farms (as opposed to corporate farms) that are in severe decline as a result of years of decreasing rainfall and drought. Both groups exhibit achievement test scores that are more than one standard deviation below the mean at all grade levels, and excessive high school drop-out rates.

Write a paper of 1,250-1,500 words in which you consider the merits of applying ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory, narrative inquiry, and case study to the scenario above. Include the following in your paper:

1. A brief description of what types of information about the given scenario could be gathered from each of the qualitative methods listed above.
2. A brief statement of the potential utility and scientific merit of the information to be gathered by applying each of the qualitative methods above to the given scenario.
3. A brief statement describing which qualitative method(s) listed above would be best suited to the scenario in light of the potential gains in both utility and scientific merit expected from completing the study.

Required Resources

• Course Text: Woolfolk, A. (2013). Educational psychology (12th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

• • Chapter 1, “Learning, Teaching, and Educational Psychology” (pp. 2–27)
  • Chapter 2, “Cognitive Development ” (pp. 28–67)
  • Chapter 10, “The Learning Sciences and Constructivism” (p. 357)

• Walden Library “Tour”: Access the Walden Library from your myWalden page (or from http://library.waldenu.edu/). Then click on How Do I…? and then on General Library Help to access resources that will provide you with a “tour” of the Walden Library website.
  

Optional Resources

• PowerPoint presentations: The following PowerPoint presentations provide helpful information for using the Walden Library to find resources.

• • Advanced Keyword Searching: http://library.waldenu.edu/Documents/AdvSearchingSept2010.ppt
    This PowerPoint presentation demonstrates strategies and techniques to focus your results on relevant sources.

  • Boolean Operators AND, OR, & NOT: http://library.waldenu.edu/Documents/BooleanOperators.ppt
    This presentation expands your understanding of searching for resources in a way that saves you time by sorting through hundreds rather than thousands of hits.

  • Subject Searching: http://library.waldenu.edu/Documents/SubjectSearching.ppt
    This presentation explains how subject searching is different from keyword searches.

• Web site: ChangingMinds.org
  http://changingminds.org/index.htm

• Web site: Educational Psychology
  http://psychology.about.com/od/educationalpsychology/Educational_Psychology.htm

• Web site: Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
  http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/topics/cognition/piaget.html

• Web site: Jean Piaget Society
  http://www.piaget.org/

• Web site: Vygotsky
  http://www.massey.ac.nz/~alock/virtual/trishvyg.htm

• Web site: Tools of the Mind: Philosophy
  
  1. Recent advances in neuroscience have influenced all areas of psychology. Consider some of the developments in brain research and how they inform the field of educational psychology. Then, in your own words, describe what brain-based education means. In reference to the Learning Resources, what are the implications of brain-based education in the classroom or in other learning settings?

  2. Yielding measurable results that can be replicated is both an important and sought-after benefit of conducting and applying research in educational psychology. Choose an educational question or topic you would like to research. Then, identify two different types of research studies (e.g., descriptive, experimental, microgenetic) you might use to investigate this topic, and explain the differences between the two. As applied to your topic, what knowledge or information would you hope to gain from each kind of study, and how would it inform the processes of teaching and learning?

  3. As you learned from Chapter 2 of the course text, Piaget and Vygotsky had different theories on cognitive development in children. In addition to their differences they also shared some commonalities in their thinking. Define Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and Vygotsky’s sociocultural perspective. Then explain one similarity between the two theorieshttp://www.toolsofthemin