A dissertation committee is a team that works together to help you complete a scholarly work – your dissertation. Teams are great because with a team you can assemble people with different areas of expertise that will result in the best work possible. Teams can be difficult because you (as the writer) may feel as […]
Think of your prospectus as your working paper of your idea. It is your blueprint, however, it does need full committee approval and approval from Academic Review. Your proposal is Chapters 1-3 of your dissertation. Again, this needs full committee approval and approval from Academic Review. This is the fine print of your blueprint. You […]
What is a Dissertation and when do I need to start thinking about mine? A dissertation is an original paper that critically evaluates and summarizes an area of research, identifies a problem (or gap in the research), proposes and then conducts an original study that aims to find solutions to this identified problem. Thus, the […]
As a lay audience, it is possible to understand what it meant to be positively correlated or negatively correlated. Pearson correlation coefficient has a standard index with a range value from -1.0 to +1.0, and with 0 specifying no relationship (Laureate Education, 2016b). The closer we move to the value of 1 the stronger the […]
As its name implies, confidence intervals provide a range of values, along with a level of confidence, to serve as an estimate of some unknown population value. Since it is rare to have access to the entire population, you must frequently rely on the confidence interval of the sample to make some inference about the […]
Our daily lives revolve around things that we cannot control. Before we step out the front door we ask, will it rain today? What is the chance of getting stuck in traffic? Or better yet, will my class be cancelled? Even though Dietz & Kalof (2009) suggest how life is uncontrollable, however; people try to […]
Project Ready Smile (PRS) provides services to children in selected early childhood settings in the six targeted counties in Missouri. ECC or early childhood carriers sites agree to support the project while providing access to children. Children were found with abscesses and tooth decay that had already spread through their mouth. PRS is an initiative […]
I was once told that a good sample is not good in terms of size or generalizability. A good sample requires an understanding of purposeful sample strategies. Ineffectiveness in data saturation is the failure to reach saturation point that can hampers content and research validity (Fusch & Ness, 2015). Additionally, data saturation is reached when there is enough […]
Community involvement is an important part of social change- whether it entails planning to engage community participants or delivering community health assessment outcomes. The purpose of Yob & Brewer (n.d) research is to explore practices of community involvement that can lead to positive social change. Community involvement can strengthen transparency and contribute to the overall […]
I was especially entice by how the literature review is an essential part of a research process and a key component of dissertational process. It informs what is known about a research topic and what might benefit from further exploration (Creswell, 2009). One such strategy is to understand the mechanisms, or pieces, of the dissertation and […]