Complete a five-page annotated bibliography comprising five research articles that are related to the learning or psychological intervention of your choice.
An annotated bibliography is a list of referenced articles. Each reference is followed by a brief descriptive and evaluative paragraph. The purpose of this paragraph, known as the annotation, is to inform the reader about the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the source. At the professional level, annotated bibliographies let you see what is current in the literature and where your own research or scholarship can fit.
In this activity, you will develop an annotated bibliography comprising five research articles that are related to interventions in learning. The fields of sports psychology, clinical psychology, educational psychology, industrial-organizational (I/O) psychology, counseling psychology, applied behavior analysis (ABA), and so on ask you to demonstrate the merit of your ideas. It is important for you to be competent in offering that support, because it will help with professional challenges such as securing grants, conducting effective treatment sessions, gaining parent cooperation, challenging school boards, or suggesting changes to existing policies.
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Write a five-page annotated bibliography that addresses the following:
- Analyze theoretical orientation in research across multiple studies.
- Locate the theoretical position or framework within each article. Explain which learning theory is being used as a framework for the research. Consider the current status of the learning theory in your analysis.
- Analyze the research methodology used to study psychological and educational interventions.
- Provide a complete analysis of the research methodologies common to the study of learning theory
- Include subjects, hypotheses, methods, and instruments, if any. Look at the strengths and limitations of the study.
- Evaluate the results of the research.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the use of the intervention in practice.
- What did the research reveal about this intervention?
- How did the results of this research influence the field?
- Use paraphrasing and summarization to represent ideas from external sources.
- Interpret and synthesize credible sources.
- Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
- Exhibit adherence to stylistic conventions, document structure, and source attributions.
Develop an annotated bibliography of each article that includes:
- The APA reference for the study being reviewed. This will be at the top of the page. Because the reference leads your annotation, you do not need to use in-text citations to the reference. The annotation that follows is indented in its entirety under the reference line.
- Your analysis of each article should include the following:
- What the theoretical position or framework of the researchers was.
- Who or what the subjects in the study were.
- Which hypotheses were involved.
- How it was studied (methodology) and which instruments were used.
- What was discovered (results).
- How the findings influenced the standing of the learning theory.
- An evaluation of the effectiveness of use of the intervention in practice.
- The strengths and limitations of the study.
