In this assignment, you will develop an annotated bibliography comprising five research articles that are related to interventions in learning. In the fields of
Educational Psychology, we are asked to demonstrate the merit of our ideas. It is important for you to be competent in offering that support, as 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.
Prepare
locate five research studies related to the learning or psychological intervention of your choice. This intervention should be connected with your field in some way and should be intended to result in a change in behavior (learning). The range of possible interventions is quite endless, so if you have questions about the suitability of your choice of intervention to study, you may contact your instructor.
Be sure that the intervention you are choosing is related to a learning or psychological issue in which the goal is to address learning something new or to adjust previous learning.
There are different types of articles you will encounter while locating studies:
Research articles present original research.
Review articles discuss research already presented elsewhere.
Survey articles are comprehensive review articles that discuss an entire field or area of research, and may include meta-analyses.
Theoretical articles that explain an emerging theory.
For this assignment, you will be required to use research articles. If you encounter an article you would like to review, but are not able to identify the features noted below, you probably do not have the right type of article and should keep searching.
Assignment Instructions
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.
An analysis of the article:
The strengths and limitations of the study.
An evaluation of the effectiveness of use of the intervention in practice.
How the findings influenced the standing of the learning theory.
What was discovered (results)?
How it was studied (methodology), what instruments were used?
What hypotheses were involved?
Who/what were the subjects in the study?
What was the theoretical position or framework of the researchers?
