Research Project – Week Four

You will receive feedback on the previous week’s assignment by Sunday 11:59pm. Before you complete your Week Four assignment, please read your instructor’s comments about your Week Three assignment, as well as this week’s lecture. Be sure to include any suggested changes in your project going forward.

In a five- to six-page paper (not including the title and reference pages), include the following:

1. A revised version of your introduction, research question, background research, hypothesis, research design, sampling plan, secondary data plan (if applicable), and measurement scales (if applicable).  These revisions must be based on your instructor’s feedback if your instructor provided comments about these sections in Week Three.
2. Your plans for using observations, focus groups, interviews, or surveys, if applicable. This should include your draft version of the questions you will ask your participants. If observations or surveys would not be useful in your study, please explain why not.
3. A reference list documented in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

RESPOND TO 2 STUDENTS DISCUSSION POST 1

Discussion 1 Rolf Halthen 12/9/2015 7:57:29 PM

The data collection methods utilized by Ball and Nicolle (2015) were focus groups, critical incident technique, and interviews to collect data for their quantitative study on mobility concerns among the visually impaired. The interview techniques utilized face-to-face, telephone and email interviews (Ball & Nicolle, 2015). Ball & Nicolle (2015) indicated that most of their data came from analyzing discussion forums since it was difficult to receive interview feedback from participants without asking specific questions. In my estimation, the researchers utilized ideal data collection methods for the purpose of identifying the underlying issues in an unbiased manner. Ball and Nicolle (2015) used the domain analysis approach for categorizing the data they received on mobility concerns among the visually impaired. Specifically, they were able to develop categories and properties through evaluating the various data points (Ball & Nicolle, 2015). The researchers were able to revise these categories throughout the process as more data was analyzed, avoiding any preconceived frameworks (Ball & Nicolle, 2015). This is an ideal method for evaluating large amounts of data. Additionally, this area of research is undeveloped, dictating the need to analyze the data in an unbiased method for the purpose of generating a hypothesis. After formulating a hypothesis, it would be possible to use a quantitative method to confirm or invalidate the hypothesis. I believe the data analysis method was ideal for evaluating this type of qualitative data. References Ball, E. M., & Nicolle, C. A. (2015). Changing What It Means to Be “Normal”: A Grounded Theory Study of the Mobility Choices of People Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 109(4), 291. Retrieved from http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.proxy-library.ashford.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=c49d8347-3dc2-4982-b00f-29e64ce362fb%40sessionmgr4001&vid=10&hid=4105 Respond

(an instructor response) RE: Discussion 1 Dr. Jon Webber 12/10/2015 8:42:57 AM

Eric, you meant QUALITATIVE here instead of quantitative, right (“and interviews to collect data for their quantitative study on mobility concerns”)? The title of the article tells us this was a qualitative study so you are on track, for sure. Could you fill in the gaps here to help us delineate this as qualitative for those you might have missed the Landrum particulars? Let’s keep this conversation going because these methods are all qualitative. I love qualitative studies! Qualitative Analysis Stephanie Lomax 12/10/2015 7:26:12 PM Through our text,” naturalistic observation tends to fall into the category of qualitative research, and the goal of qualitative research is to understand human behavior holistically (rather than analytically)” (Landrum, 2014). One recent study that was done was on females going through Ranger School with the United States Army. This was study conducted to determine if females would be able to endure and make it through the challenges that a male soldier goes through to become a ranger based of the Department of the Defense. This is qualitative data as it shows the individual interviews of the females and males who were going through the course together, focus groups based on evaluations and performance reviews from the trainers at the school, along with plenty of observations and action research of being able to watch these females go through the course. The likely hood of a female graduating from this school is slim now only because not as many females started the course as the males and still plenty of males did not make it through the courses as well. With the research, nineteen female and 381 male soldiers started Ranger School of which only two females along with 88 males graduated from. That means that over two-thirds of the course was a No-Go. This data that was gathered now has allowed more combat operations and positions to be open to females serving in numerous combat billets. Qualitative data has now shown the Department of Defense that females can endure the same hardship and challenges as their male counterparts. The data that is collected from these females in Ranger school is data that can be considered both discrete and continuous. Discrete that data will stay the way it is for that graduation class that occurred but continuous that other females may graduate from the course. It can keep going on until it is shut down but as for now, the data can continue on and possibly have different adverse actions later.     Landrum, E. (2014).  Research Methods for Business: Tools and Applications.  San Diego, CA:Bridgepoint Education, Inc. Tan, M. (2015) Army Time: First female Ranger grads share credit with classmates. Retrieved from http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/2015/08/20/first-female-ranger-grads-share-credit-classmates/32079657/ Respond RE: Qualitative Analysis Nicole Thompson 12/11/2015 11:59:41 AM Stephanie, What an interesting topic. I have always followed things like this in a brief manner, being prior service myself. There are different studies if you will pertaining to females assuming the roles traditionally held by their male counter parts, and of course of the women who want to perform those functions, only a slight fraction of them make it through the process to do so. They have recently allowed women on submarines, and a few years back a female soldier finally was allowed to shift and perform changing of the guards to guard the ‘Tomb of the Unknown Soldier’. Though qualitative data and time has shown us that females indeed can do the same things men can, quantitative says at a much lesser rate sometimes than their male counterparts in male dominated or traditional- areas. Great post! Thank you for sharing. R/ Nicole RESPOND TO 2 STUDENTS DISCUSSION2   Dog Park Behavior Nicole Thompson 12/9/2015 9:22:41 AM I had taken my dog to a dog park around 10 a.m.yesterday, I have a small yorkie and there are normally quite a few people out with their dogs as well. There were about 10-15 other dog owners, in which the majority owned much larger dogs than my own and there may have been 4 to 5 small/medium dogs as well. Though all owners who use dog parks understand that they are allowed to let their dogs free at their own risk, as all dogs temperaments are different; and dogs also do not know how big or small they are or if they’ll actually get along with another dog. My question was “How comfortable are owners of larger dogs, with allowing them to be in the same open area for play with smaller dogs?” What I noticed, depending on the owner and their confidence in their training and control of their own dog, had no issue allowing their dog, who may have been anywhere from 15-50 pounds heavier than my own dog to run free and play with. Their control over their dog was very impressive, they simply payed attention and had sound (name call) or signal for their dog when they felt they were being too rough and the dog immediately stopped and became much more gentle. Those who did not have this level of control or were not so sure of their own dogs mood, would almost immediately take their dogs into another gated area or ask another owner to hold on letting their smaller dog loose, while they leashed their dog to be moved. In essence, owners who have trained their dogs properly, know there is no reason any dog cannot play with other dogs; however, if the owner has not or does not have control over their dog, there could be a problem resulting in harm to someone else’s dog, and they would rather not risk it. Respond (an instructor response) RE: Dog Park Behavior Dr. Jon Webber 12/10/2015 8:48:14 AM Nicole, this is an example of a fun and practical way to get the feel of observational research. Landrum tells us we can do it just like you did or used Closed Caption TV (CCT) methods to observe what other people are doing. A company might do this by setting up microphones and cameras to observe the flow of traffic into and out of a store or how much time servers are spending with the customer vs. socializing. The day at the dog park (I love Yorkies by the way) was a valuable tool to see the application here. What else could you have done to even understand the question even more fully?

Discussion 2

Rolf Halthen

12/9/2015 7:52:59 PM

At 7:00 PM on a weekday, I went to the gym with the question: “How do people interact with each other?”.  In the span of 15 minutes, there were only four other people in the gym. Of the group of four, it was obvious that two were a couple and the other two guys knew each other and came to the gym to work out together. It was apparent that people avoided interaction unless they had some form of previous relationship. Eye contact was never made between groups, unless absolutely necessary. Additionally, the woman had either a magazine or phone conversation taking place while performing her exercise making it less inviting to interact with her. The couple only had one interaction with each other take place in the entire span of time. The two men were much more interactive, not only in conversation but also in assisting with exercises. They were clearly there to partner with different work outs. The couple performed very different types of work outs and were not there to partner in any way. In summary, I observed that interactions were avoided among people who were not previously acquainted. Respond

Project description
Research a focusing event that occurred between 1927-1950.
2. Identify a federal, state, or local government agency or non-governmental organization (NGO) such as a church
or charity that provided assistance to the disaster victims. See the textbook for examples.
3. Describe the assistance provided and the phase of emergency management.
4. Discuss the lessons learned from the focusing event.
The essay should include a title page, body (a minimum of two pages), and reference page. The body of the paper should
include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Format the paper, in-text citations, and references in APA format.

20th-Century Genius Award Paper and Presentation

Project description
Global Financial Market (October 2015)
Coursework Brief and Case Study
Read the news announcement SABMiller and AB InBev agreement in principle and extension of PUSU deadline from SABMiller website (enclosed 7 page case study) to perform the following tasks of analysis and write up your finding in a report format.
You are encouraged to conduct research on the effects of the news on share price. All related regulatory announcements can be found (as of Wednesday 14 October 2015) at the following website: https://www.sabmiller.com/investors/ABInBev-Possible-Offer
This is an ongoing case of AB InBev, one of the biggest in the UK. The study should emphasize the state of the play, valuation and trading strategy going forward. The students are encouraged to take a forward looking view on the future of acquisition event.
Conduct in-depth background research to enhance the analysis of the acquisition event. Such research should demonstrate in-depth understanding on the working of the sector. You should set up a timeline to reflect the chronicle of events based on key dates. (20%)
Conduct comprehensive valuation on SABMiller and AB InBev prior to the acquisition announcement. Your valuation should use relevant valuation technique(s) to arrive at an appropriately discounted present value (per share) for SABMiller and AB InBev. (20%)
Evaluate the extent of price impacts on SABMiller and AB InBev following the news announcements on acquisition. Does the movement of share price reflect the insights from Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH)? (20%)
Conduct event analysis to test EMH and derive your trading profit from the event. An event analysis template is provided separately based on Chapter 14 contents of Simon Benninga textbook Financial Modelling (4th edition). (20%)
You are required to demonstrate trading strategies and instruments that would be appropriate to exploit price efficiency/inefficiency during the process of acquisition. Your analysis should forecast possible trading profit going forward. (20%Timeline
The first announcement event occurred on 16 September 2015 and the cut-off time is 30 November 2015. Respectively, your estimation window* should run at least one year before the event announcement date, e.g. 15 September 2014 and your event window should have a cut-off date by 30 November 2015. You can also simulate price behaviours of both companies going forward.
*See Chapter 14 Simon Benningas textbook for the definition of estimation window.
Organize your findings in a Report format according to the weight presented. The length should be no longer than 2,500 words. You need to provide data and valuation result in Excel format as evidence in the appendix.

Hello there,
I want you to answer these questions as paragraphs.
prepare a Leadership Action Plan The Leadership Action Plan will allow you to:
1-Reflect on what you learned about yourself during the semester in relation to your capacity to demonstrate leadership.
2-Reflect on what you see as your leadership strengths and weaknesses and how you will take advantage of both in the future.
3-Describe the leadership philosophy/definition you have developed throughout this class. Has it changed since the beginning of class? If so, how?
4-Describe three action steps you can take to continue to develop your leadership in the future.
you do not need to use sources.

gave u a likert scale but without respondent, you can assume there is 15-18 person who have completed it, and use the data to analysis and write a report
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Added on 11.12.2015 10:11
For this project you need to conduct a survey about aspects of language learning.
Select an area which interests you from the work we have covered on language learning. Decide exactly what you hope to find out.
Decide on the best way to survey this. This will depend on the number of respondents and the detail in which you intend to collect data. You need to be able to justify your approach.
Plan how to analyse your data.
Make sure your participants are willing.
Begin reading about your focus area to support your project and its data.
you may can make changes on the likert scale, I just completed it, but if you can make some changes, it would be really good for the result:)

Have to use either Act 1 or Act 2 of the play Death of a Salesman -Each bullet point have its own page 4 bullet points 1. Identify the plot of the Act and illustrate its importance in the play 2. Describe the role of each character in the Act. 3. Show how the staging affects the presentations of the Act. 4. Tell how the theme of the Act relates to the overall dramatic effects of the play.