Learning Achievement on Children with Special Needs
Learning Achievement on Children with Special Needs
Your first task as a doctoral researcher is to begin a search for your research problem. Consider your passion. What do you care about? What problem in your educational specialization interests you the most? Try to express this in a single sentence that begins with the words, “The problem is…” This can be your starting point in developing your research problem.
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Note that your research problem must also be considered a problem in the educational discipline by published researchers. Your work builds on, and adds to, the work other scholars have done. To determine if your research problem is current, you need to search the most recent peer-reviewed literature. At this point in your study, seek reference literature that has been published within the last 5 years.
Your topic must be aligned to the specialization to which you are assigned. For example, if your specialization is Special Education then your topic must deal with either Special Education. You -would not be able to choose “teacher retention” or any other non- topic.
To prepare:
- Review the required readings, media, and resources.
- Use your citation management software and Boolean logic, as you seek evidence from the literature that justifies pursuing this research problem.
- Download the Writing Assignment Template and Exemplar from the Week 2 course announcement.
To complete:
This Assignment should be written in correct APA style and should include the following:
To Complete
In your prospectus document include:
- The working title
- Problem statement
- Three to five key citations that highlight the relevance and currency of the problem (these should be current—within the last 5 years)
- Evidence of the problem in the research literature (and locally, for the project study)
Note that requirements differ for project studies and dissertations.
Learning Resources
REQUIRED READINGS
Single, P. B. (2010). Demystifying dissertation writing: A streamlined process from choice of topic to final text. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
- Chapter 1.4, “The Single System” (p. 16)
- Chapter 2.4, “Entering the Conversation” (pp. 34–38)
- Chapter 5.1, “Useful Focus Statements” (pp. 87–89)
Butin, D. W. (2010). The education dissertation: A guide for practitioner scholars. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
- Chapter 3, “Articulating a problem in Academic Speak” (pp. 42–43)
Thomas, G. (2017). How to do your research project: A guide for students (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- Chapter 1, “Where do I begin?” (pp. 2–7)
REQUIRED MEDIA
Laureate Education (Producer). (2016f). Developing a problem statement for a project study [Multimedia]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 2 minutes.
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OPTIONAL RESOURCES