constructive feedbacks:
1. In the summary section, I think adding the research experiment’s results and alignment with the hypothesis would be beneficial. There’s plenty of space to do so, as the references and AI interaction sections don’t contribute to the word count for this assignment. Your current summary is refined, and adding the research results will add coherence and completeness to your paper.
2. While I believe it was a good idea to use more than 1 scholarly sources, your work could benefit by focusing on only one article. Your work could also improve by explaining the hypothesis more explicitly and factoring out its significance. You could also improve the writing by elaborating on the result and the conclusion of the study.
3.Overall your summary and proposed research display a strong grasp of the research topic but one suugestion for improvement would be to delve a bit deeper into the strategies for adressing the methodological considerations in the longitidinal resrach. For instance, you can discuss the sources of bias, or strategies for reducing participant dropout. Moreover to strengthen the validity and reliability of your work you could explore alternative data colllection methods.
4. If you were to change one thing to significantly improve your work, it would be to change the study that you are summarizing. As listed in the requirements of phase 1, we have to summarize one the articles above, this was not one of them. Your summary is pretty close to the article “Individual differences influencing the relationship between online social support and addictive use of social media”, if you choose to summarize that instead, you can use the article by Kim et al. as a supporting source. Aside from that, your summary should also talk about the result of the experiment. What was the result of the internet surveys? Does it support the hypothesis or theory?
5. One area that could enhance your summary and proposal is the integration of more specific examples or explanations about how the measures (RSQ, OSSS, and BSMAS) are utilized in the study. Providing a brief description of what these scales measure and how they contribute to the overall research could offer readers a more comprehensive understanding. Additionally, expanding on how the results of the proposed longitudinal study could be applied in practical interventions would strengthen the real-world relevance of your research extension.
6. Honestly I think you may be confused as to what the assignment entails. Technically you were suppose to summerize one of the two articles posted and answering the assignment questions. While you did parts of the assignment questions, a couple are missing such as: theory and the results. Maybe in the reflection part of this assignment you can try and fix it?
Assignment requirement:
Instructions
The following two research articles will be part of this activity …
Individual differences influencing the relationship between online social support and addictive use of social mediaDownload Individual differences influencing the relationship between online social support and addictive use of social media
Evaluation of a formative peer assessment in research methods teaching using an online platformDownload Evaluation of a formative peer assessment in research methods teaching using an online platform
You will be focusing on one of these for the steps below, and you can choose which one. Look at the tasks described below, then check out both papers. Decide which one you feel most comfortable summarizing. By the way, if the paper describes more than one experiment, you can focus on just one experiment. So find the experiment you most like!
1. Summarize the experiment from one of these articles in your own words (with proper APA citations). Your summary should include all of the following information:
Discuss the theory was the research based on (Note, these are sometimes not explicitly stated. You may have to figure it out once you identify the hypothesis)
Highlight at least one of the hypotheses the experiment was meant to address
Discuss all relevant variables, and specify if they were dependent or independent variables
What research method was being used to address the hypothesis?
What was the result of the research? Did the result confirm the hypothesis or not?
2. Imagine you are now the researcher, and do the following:
Propose an experiment that could extend this research further.
Explain why you think it would be a good idea to conduct this follow up experiment.
To get the best grade, try to justify your idea in the context of the theory. How might your experiment provide a better understanding of what is happening? That is, rather than just saying “I’d do it again with more participants” try to come up with another prediction that flows from the theory and suggest a test for it.
3. Use chatGPTLinks to an external site. (or any generative A.I. tool) as your research assistant and do the following:
Tell the A.I. your proposed research question/experiment, along with any other details you think are relevant, and ask it how your experiment might help future researchers better understand the theory.
Fill out out the Interaction log and add it as a PDF attachment in peerScholar (see below).
We encourage students to use many tools to clarify concepts as well as for brainstorming ideas, this can include A.I. tech like ChatGPT. These tools are meant to be used for learning and research, rather than relying on them to complete your work (you’ve read the syllabus and did the AIM module, so no need to post more Academic Integrity warnings here 🙂 Although fairly new, learning how to use these A.I. tools for research purposes can be very beneficial.
So what is an interaction log & why does it need to be included in this activity? An interaction log is a simple document where you add questions (prompts) & responses from the A.I. tool. For example, maintaining an interaction log promotes transparency in how ChatGPT is used, while also providing insights into students’ learning processes.
(copy the following into a Google Doc and export as a PDF when completed).
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Student Interaction History Log:
Date/Time: [Timestamp]
Name of A.I./LLM: [e.g., chatGPT 3.5]
Purpose of Interaction: [e.g., Concept clarification, brainstorming]
Questions/Prompts Asked to the A.I.:
[Question 1]. <— you can ask 1 or more questions related to your proposed experiment.
[Question 2]
[Question 3]
Response(s) Received:
[Response 1] <— for each question you ask, copy and paste the response from the A.I.
[Response 2]
[Response 3]
Duration of Interaction: [e.g., 8 minutes]
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Your summary and proposal paper should be between 500 and 800 words (excluding reference list, citations, and Interaction log). If your work is noticeably outside these guidelines, you will lose marks. The summary section of your paper is worth 4 marks, your research extension is worth 2 marks, so the amount of words devoted to each should roughly follow that proportion (2/3 summary, 1/3 research extension.) You will also get 1 mark for attaching your Interaction log (you will not be graded on the content of the log).
Remember from your syllabus that you are expected to back up your work in a Google Doc as you go, and then paste it into peerScholar for submission before the deadline. This is for two reasons:
Google Docs auto-saves your work, and peerScholar doesn't. If your connection times out of peerScholar or your computer crashes, you might lose the work
Google Docs records timestamps of all edits made to the document. This means that if there is a technical issue with your submission, you'd be able to prove that you completed it before the deadline.
