psy 300 eric project guidelines fall 2013

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TOPIC 12 Your ERIC project assignment guidelines

Print this out so that you can refer to it, step by step, as you are doing your ERIC project!!!! I have it posted in the "DocSharing" section of your website, so that you can go there and downoad it for ore coputerfriendy printing #$

%our ERIC Project assignent is going to be a sipe and straightforward assignent that wi et e &now that can#'$ access the ERICEbsco database that is on our university(s ibrary(s website

)$ deveop a research *uestion+$ investigate your research *uestion using the ERICEbsco database$ draw concusions fro reading the artice suaries-abstracts that are on the ERICEbsco database.$ distin*uish between E/ records and ED records0$ transfor your research *uestion into a research stateent

1oow the directions for the assignent carefuy, and you shoud be abe to do we on this #$

Part I# 2ccessing the ERICEbsco database on the 3245C website

'6 7o to the 3245C website6)6 Cic& on "Current Students"6+6 5nder "Casses and 2cadeics", cic& on "8ibrary"6

6 %ou are now on the 8ibary website6 In the first coun on the eft, under "1inding Inforation", cic& on "1ind aDatabase, 29"6.6 %ou wi see the aphabet in bue etters6 Cic& on the etter "E" :for ERIC$606 Scro down to the botto of the "E" databases, unti you reach the fourth fro the botto, which is caed ERIC:E;SC<$6 3his is the database that you want to use6 =ote# ERIC is an acrony for Educationa Resources InforationCenter6666E6R6I6C6 Cic& on ERIC :E;SC<$6>6 %ou ay be propted for your 4y8eo ogin inforation to gain access to the database6 Enter your inforation just asyou do when you sign on to 4y8eo :Student ID? and your password$6 Enter it carefuy, and you wi then be ogged in,and the ERICEbsco database wi be on your screen6=ote# 3he ERICEbsco is an outstanding research resource6 3he database itsef is caed ERIC, and it contains iionsof records of actua artices that are pubished in schoary journas reating to the fied of education6 2nytie a researchartice is pubished in a journa, it is aso cataogued into the ERIC database6 %ou can, therefore, access a of thatinforation :and soeties the whoe artice is put into ERIC as we$ just by typing in a few search ters6 @hether for

fora research, or for a ess fora occasion such as a day when you sipy have *uestion about soething that hashappened in your cassroo, you can access the ERIC database to earn the atest research reating to the topic or*uestion! It(s a powerfu and essentia too for EAER%<=E going into education, and that is why I re*uire that youdeonstrate that you can use this too for yoursef #$ Ebsco is the nae of the search engine that you are using6 Ebsco is a very good search engine, and that is why I as&you to use it for this project6 3here are other search engines that can access the ERIC database, but soe are esssophisticated6 1or this project, you are to use ERICEbsco ony6B6 %ou are now on the ERICEbsco database, and you wi now foow the directions for Part II beow6

Part II# %our research *uestion

'6 %ou now need to deveop a research *uestion about soething that is ED5C23I<=reated6 3his is not difficut6 3hereare an infinite nuber of possibiities6 %ou wi need to foow a very specific forat though6 2s you deveop your*uestion, write it down soewhere, since you( need to type it into your assignent ater6

)6 1oow the eact forat of# Is there a reationship between and RE4E4;ER 3< E=D I3 @I3F 2 G5ES3I<= 42RH!!!!!!! 3hat(s right, use that eact *uestion6 %ou wi fi in the ban&swith two concepts-variabes-factors that are different fro one another6 Fere are eapes, and you ay use one of thefoowing I1 it is actuay soething that interests you6 <therwise, you wi want to deveop your own research *uestionand, if you do so, you ust eai it to e no ater than 4onday, <ctober 'th, )'+to as& if it(s o&ay to use6 :If you useone of the foowing you donot have to eai e with your topic, since it(s aready on the approved ist6 If you deveop oneof your own, you ust eai e that topic before '-'-'+ so that I can approve it6$Eapes-3opic Choices#a$ Is there a reationship between schoo unifors and student behaviorb$ Is there a reationship between use of corpora punishent and student behaviorc$ Is there a reationship between singe parent faiies and acadeic achieveent in chidrend$ Is there a reationship between participation in draa and socia deveopente$ Is there a reationship between teenage pregnancy and dropout rates in high schoo girs



f$ Is there a reationship between teenage depression and acadeic epectationsg$ Is there a reationship between schoo siJe and acadeic achieveenth$ Is there a reationship between reigosity and acadeic achieveenti$ Is there a reationship between socioeconoic status :SES$ and popuarity :or socia acceptance$

j$ Is there a reationship between buying behavior in schoo and doestic abuse&$ Is there a reationship between seua abuse and acadeic achieveent$ Is there a reationship between usic education and ath achieveent$ Is there a reationship between ES8 progras and student achieveentn$ Is there a reationship between incusion progras and acadeic achieveent in earning disabed studentso$ Is there a reationship between onatary reward-incentive progras and acadeic achieveentp$ Is there a reationship between standardiJed testing and teacher orae*$ Is there a reationship between =6C686; :=o Chid 8eft ;ehind$ egisation and acadeic iproveents for earningdisabed studentsr$ Is there a reationship between cassroo seating arrangeents and attending behavior :paying attention$ ineeentary schoo studentss$ Is there a reationship between parenta invoveent and iteracyt$ Is there a reationship between geographic obiity :oving around$ and ath achieveentu$ Is there a reationship between educationa eve and incoev$ Is there a reationship between gang intervention progras and gang invoveentw$ Is there a reationship between drin&ing :acoho consuption$ and acadeic achieveent in coege students$ Is there a reationship between arijuana use and acadeic achieveent in coege studentsy$ Is there a reationship between schoo funding and acadeic achieveentJ$ Is there a reationship between webbased instruction and concept astery in coege students

3) Remember, if you choose a question other than one of the ones listed above, please email me with your question andrun it by me (on or before Monday, October 14, !13)" #ow proceed to $art %%%"

Part III# Doing your search

'$ In the ERICEbsco database, you are given a pace to enter your search ters in the boes at the top of the page61irst, be sure that you are in the ERICEbsco website6 %ou shoud see a bue circe in the upper eft corner of the page,with the word Ebsco in it6 2bove the boes for the search ters, you shoud see in bod print the word# ERIC6

)$ %ou want to enter one search ter in each of the boes6 5suay this is two different ters :i6e6 in eape "y" above,your two search ters woud be (schoo funding( and (acadeic achieveent($, but soeties it woud be three i6e6 ineape (J( above, your three search ters woud be (webbased instruction( and (concept astery( and (coege

students(6 =ote that soe search ters ay have ore than one word, i6e6 (concept astery(, but rarey woud a terhave ore than three words6 3he ore words, the ore it iits your search, so &eep each ter very sipe6

+$ 2t the top of the ERICEbsco database page, you wi see an option for 3hesaurus6 %ou can cic& on this to hep youfind the (right ters( for what you are considering6 3hese are ters that the ERICEbsco database recogniJes and uses6Soeties, the search process is a about finding the right ter to describe your idea6

$ %ou want to iit your search to E/ :ERIC /ourna 2rtices$ records ony6 %ou D< =<3 want to incude ED :ERICDocuents$ records in your search6 1or schoary research, ED resources are not considered to be of the appropriateeve6 E/ artices are peerreviewed :research has been reviewed by eperts in the fied$, and ED records are notnecessariy peerreviewed6 <n the ERICEbsco database page, after entering your two or three search ters, scro downa itte to the section caed "8iit %our Resuts", and on the right hand side, you( see where it propts you for "/ourna orDocuent"6 Cic& on "/ourna 2rtices :E/$"6 3hat is the ony thing that you need to use in iiting your search6 =ow cic&

on the "Search" button at the botto of the page6Heep in ind that E/ records have accension nubers that begin with E/6 ED records have accension nubers thatbegin with ED6 %ou ust ony use E/ records!!!!.$ =ow you are ready to begin to review the iterature that has been written on your research *uestion6 Proceed to PartIA6

Part IA# Reviewing the E/ records that reate to your research *uestion

'$ %ou wi now be abe to read various E/ records that reate to actua artices that have been written about your area ofinterest6 Reeber that an E/ record is =<3 3FE 2C3528 2R3IC8E6 3he actua artice, which coud be fro one to fiftypages :or ore$, is printed in an acadeic journa6 %ou are ony reading a S5442R% of that artice in the E/ record63hat(s o&ay though, since the suary wi give you an idea of whether or not this is an artice that you(d want to read ifyou were doing an actua paper, or asters thesis, or doctora dissertation, or preparing for toorrow(s cass that you are



teaching!

)$ Each E/ record contains two ajor things# '$ the bibiographic inforation about the author, journa in which the articeis pubished, anguage, &ey ters that are used in cataoging the artice, etc6K and, )$ the 2;S3R2C3, which is a onetwoparagraph suary of the pubished artice, and it usuay contains the findings of the research that was done6

+$ 2fter you entered your search ters and cic&ed (search(, the ERICEbsco does an aaJing scan of the iions ofrecords that are cataogued on ERIC, and in a atter of seconds, it returns to you a ist of those records!

$ I used the first eape above :(a( research *uestion$ about student unifors and student behavior6 I entered the twoters "student unifors" and "student behavior" in the two search boes, and iited y search to E/ records ony6 Ireceived a resut that there are ' E/ records that reate to y area of interest6 3hat(s not a ot of records, but it(s enoughto support a basic research paper, I1, indeed, a of the records are hepfu6

.$ =ow, it(s tie to access your first actua E/ record6 Cic& on the bue etters :the tite$ of a record that is on your ist63his wi now ta&e you to the record itsef6 Read the record, incuding a parts of it :bibiographic inforation 2=D thecopete abstract$6 If the record incudes the futet of the artice :soe do$, don(t worry about reading the whoeartice6 If you were doing this as actua research for a paper or other endeavor, you woud of course read the artice6 1orthis assignent, you do not need to do so6

0$ 2s you read it, I1 it appears that this is a record that reates directy to your research *uestion, a&e the foowing noteson your paper :or copy-paste the record into a docuent that you(ve started for this purpose$6 3his is for your inforationand notes onyyou wi need this info when you put together your ERIC project#

a$ @hat is the E/ nuber of the recordb$ @hat is the tite of the recordc$ @ho is the author :authors$d$ In what journa does the actua artice appeare$ 2fter reading the abstract :') paragraph suary$, what concusions are ade that are of interest and that reate toyour research *uestion

>$ 1I=D 1IAE E/ REC<RDS 3F23 RE823E 3< %<5R RESE2RCF G5ES3I<=6 %ou ay find consideraby ore, butfocus on five of the6

Part A# Deonstrating your astery of the ERIC search process!

'$ <&ay, now you have deveoped a *uestion, used the ERICEbsco search too to investigate soe research reating to

that *uestion, and you now need to deonstrate to e that you have done that, and are cofortabe with the process6 I(

be happy then since I( &now that for the rest of your career, you wi have a way of accessing researchbased inforation

that reates to any *uestion that you ever have reating to teaching, earning, students, education, or any issues that reate

to those! If you are going into a different fied, you( &now the process for accessing inforation using an eectronic

database6 3hat is a treendous power, and I want to you aways have it!!!

)$ In a 4icrosoft <ffice @ord L>)+ :doc fie forat, not doc fie forat$ docuent, I want you to copose your

assignent by incuding, *uite sipy, the foowing :you are to use the foowing forat66666a, b, c, etc6, and subit your

assignent to the eCoege Dropbo , in that for$#

In the tite of your docuent, type# Psy+6:your section nuber$, 1a, )'+, ERIC project, and then your first and

ast nae, and the date that you are subitting it6

3hen, in the body of your paper, type the foowing :using (a(, (b(, (c(, etc6$#

a$ 3ype your research *uestion :Is there a reationship between and $, but you wi fi in the ban&s with

the ters that you used6 Reeber to put a *uestion ar& at the end of your research question!

b$ @hat are the two :or three$ search ters that you ended up using

c$ Fow any E/ records were returned to you as reating to your search ters

:If you get fewer than . E/ records returned to you, you ust conduct another search :using different ters$!!!



d$ 2fter reading-browsing the E/ records, how any of these appear to directy reate to your *uestion In other words,

how any of the woud be hepfu to you if you were actuay going to be doing a research paper on this topic

e$ 2fter reading at east five E/ record abstracts, suariJe for e in two or three paragraphs :at east 0 copete

sentences in each paragraph$ the resuts-findings of the research6 It(s just fine if you find conficting

inforation6 Soeties one research artice wi indicate one thing, and another artice wi say the opposite6 3hat(s o&ay,

and just gives you ore to write about K$ @hen you cite-reference a particuar finding, et e &now what E/ record

:this nuber is caed the 2ccension nuber and is found near the botto of the E/ record$ that coes fro sipyby putting the E/ nuber in parentheses after your stateent6

1or eape, in y suary of the research, I coud write soething aong the ines of#

It appears that soe principas report that schoo unifors are of benefit in getting rid of gang coors in the schoo

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3his is what you wi do instead of using 2P2 stye citations6 1or your citations, just incude the E/ nuber in parentheses,

and you are fine6

3hen, at the end of your paper, :after the "f" section$, create a reference section and ist the five references for the five E/

records that you use6 In referencing the, use the forat that you woud use to reference the fu artice :even though youony read the abstract-E/ record, not the whoe artice$6

REMEMBER: YOU RE TO U!E I"#ORMTIO" #ROM $$ #I%E O# T&E E' RECOR(! T&T YOU

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T&E #I%E (I##ERE"T E' "UMBER!-. "( YOU *I$$ &%E T $E!T #I%E RE#ERE"CE! I" YOUR

RE#ERE"CE !ECTIO". EC& O"E CORRE!PO"(I"+ TO O"E O# YOUR #I%E E' RECOR(!))))

:%ou &now that Subway coercia with the jinge for "1ive doar foot ongs"6666"1ive, five, five doar foot

ongs666" @e, your new jinge for Psy+ is now666"1ive, five, five diff(rent E/s!"$ K$

D< =<3 P827ERI9E!!!! %ou wi =<3 receive credit for this assignent if you do, and wi ris& your enroent at theuniversity!!!!!!!!!!! =EAER C<P% fro the E/ record, and =EAER copy fro another student(s wor& :past or current

student$6 Do =<3 use the actua words and stateents that are written in the abstracts6 %nstead, read those statements

and then $ *&M %#O +OR O# OR-.//// Everything that you write shoud be I= %<5R <@= @<RDS6 Do

not incude direct *uotes fro any source6

f$ SuariJe, briefy, your ERIC search eperience, just etting e &now if you found it difficut, easy, or whatever666and

whether or not you fee copetent to use it in the future for your own use6

3hat(s it! 3hat is your ERIC project6 /ust subit the above to your eCoege Drop;o :ocated in the enu at the top of

your website, with your responses to 21, and your references, and you are finished with this project6 In the Drop;o,

you wi subit it to the 3opic ') ERIC PR</EC3 bas&et6

3he project is worth ' points6 =ot subitting an ERIC project woud i&ey cost you a etter grade #:

Deadine for subitting your ERIC project# 35ESD2%, =<AE4;ER '), )'+6 #O 0& &R%2 $RO'&2. R&

22&$&-, $&R%O-" %ou ust subit it ;E1<RE that deadine, or you wi not receive credit6 If you anticipate any

schedue conficts near the deadine date-tie, then subit it eary6 %ou shoud pan to subit it eary anyway6 D< =<3

@2I3 5=3I8 3FE DE2D8I=E D23E 3< S5;4I3 %<5R PR</EC3! @hat if an eergency occurs! =o ate projects are

accepted, so you don(t want to end up in that position6 %ou ay subit your project to the Drop;o anytie between now

and 3uesday, =oveber ')th, at idnight6 2fter that date-tie, do not try to subit your project, and do not eai e

with your project, since I wi not accept it6



8oo& at your course syabus and be sure you fuy understand the upcoing course schedue and tie ine6 %ou have

between now and =oveber '+th to subit your project :athough you need to finish it and subit it earier than that

deadine, just to avoid any ast inute issues or probes! Since I don(t accept ate project, iagine if you waited unti

=oveber 'th or ''th or ')th, and then you had coputer probes, or got sic&, or soe other issue prevented you fro

being abe to copete it6 D< =<3 PR<CR2S3I=23E!!! :see bue note beow$66666just wor& on it and becoe an ERIC

epert! Pease note that you definitey need to go ahead and choose your research *uestion 3FIS @EEH :either one

fro y ist above, or one of your own for which you get approva fro e this wee&$6

%ou(d be surprised at just what this assignent can ean, by the way6 I(ve had forer students write to e and te ethat, when they began their teaching assignents, they found that few of their coeagues even &new about the ERIC

database :that(s a shae!!$, and that they actuay got a ot of recognition and ";rownie points" for providing a iniesson

about ERIC to their coeagues at inservice training, etc6 =ow how coo is that!!

:2nother word of warning about the tie that you choose to wor& on this project# %ou wi definitey not want to wait unti

the ast inute to begin and wor& on your ERIC project6 2nother reason why# Soeties students wi begin

investigating a particuar topic, ony to find that there is not enough research on it to support their project6 3hey have to

then go bac& to the drawing board and begin again6 Iagine how frustrating :and scary$ that woud be if you were to

wait unti the ast inute to begin your project, ony to encounter serious roadboc&s in the process! 3hat(s why I(

providing you this wee& to wor& on it, so that any of you wi copete the project in the net coupe of wee&s and not

have to be concerned with it going forward in the seester!$

Guestions <f course, as is aways the case, if you have 2=% *uestions about the assignent, E42I8 4E at

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