Article A:

Forster, M., Grigsby, T. J., Unger, J. B., & Sussman, S. (2015). Associations between gun violence exposure, gang associations, and youth aggression: Implications for prevention and intervention programs.Journal of Criminology.

https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/963750

 

Evaluating Research Questions, Hypotheses, and Quantitative Research Designs

With a clear purpose in place, quantitative researchers have a roadmap for crafting their research questions and hypotheses that will further focus the approach they will take to investigate their topic (i.e., their study’s research design).

The selection of a research design is guided by the study’s purpose and research questions and hypotheses, and the design then links the research questions and hypotheses to the data that will be collected. You should keep in mind, however, that the research process is interactive, not necessarily proceeding in a linear fashion from one component to the next. Rather, the writing of research questions could, for example, necessitate adjustments to the study’s purpose statement. Nevertheless, when presented together, the various components of a research study should align. As you learned last week, alignment means that a research study possesses clear and logical connections among all of its various components.

In addition to considering alignment, when researchers select a research design, they must also consider the ethical implications of their choice, including, for example, what their design selection means for participant recruitment, procedures, and privacy.

For this Discussion, you will evaluate quantitative research questions and hypotheses in assigned journal articles in your discipline and consider the alignment of theory, problem, purpose, research questions and hypotheses, and design. You will also identify the type of quantitative research design the authors used and explain how it was implemented. Quasi-experimental, casual comparative, correlational, pretest–posttest, or true experimental are examples of types of research designs used in quantitative research.

With these thoughts in mind, refer to the Journal Articles document for your assigned articles for this Discussion. If your last name starts with A through I, use Article A. If your last name starts with J through R, use Article B. If your last name starts with S through Z, use Article C.

Resources

 

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.Click the weekly resources link to access the resources. 

WEEKLY RESOURCES

By Day 4

Post a critique of the research study in which you:

• Evaluate the research questions and hypotheses.The Research Questions and Hypotheses Checklist serves as a guide for your evaluation. Please do not respond to the checklist in a Yes/No format in writing your Discussion post.
• Identify the type of quantitative research design used and explain how the researchers implemented the design.
• Analyze alignment among the theory, problem, purpose, research questions and hypotheses, and design.

Be sure to support your Main Issue Post and Response Post with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA Style.

Read a selection of your classmates’ postings.

By Day 6

Respond to a classmate who was assigned a different article than you by further supporting his or her critique or respectfully offering a differing perspective.

Note: For this Discussion, you are required to complete your initial post before you will be able to view and respond to your colleagues’ postings. Begin by clicking on the Reply button to complete your initial post. Remember, once you click on Post Reply, you cannot delete or edit your own posts and you cannot post anonymously. Please check your post carefully before clicking on Post Reply!   

 

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BHM Strategic Planning

The process of strategic planning uses a sequence of actions that build upon each other, helping leaders and managers to examine the alignment of vision, mission, and goals of the organization; test assumptions; gather and incorporate information about current practices and processes; and anticipate the environment in which the behavioral health care organization will be working in the future. The plan, simply put, involves a set of decisions about what to do, why to do it, and how to do it. Much of the strategy pertains to prioritizing which organizational decisions and actions are more important than others and subsequently, making the decision about what is most important to achieving optimal organizational effectiveness and success in behavioral health care settings.

Resources

 

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.Click the weekly resources link to access the resources. 

WEEKLY RESOURCES

To prepare for this Discussion:

Review this week’s Learning Resources on strategic planning in a behavioral health care setting.

By Day 3

Post a response to the following:

Select one of the main components of the strategic planning process. The components include mission statement, vision statement, values statement or guiding principles, SWOT analysis, competitive advantage, long-term strategic objectives, strategies, short-term goals/priorities/initiatives, and action items/plans. Describe the importance of the component you selected, who it benefits, and how it might work within the HCBHC’s strategic planning process.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings, then choose to respond to a colleague who posted about a different strategic planning component than the one which you posted about.

By Day 7

Respond substantially to at least one colleague’s original post in one or more of the following ways. Be sure to respond to a colleague who posted about a different component than you did:

• Ask a probing question and provide insight into how one would answer your question and why.
• Ask a probing question and provide the foundation, or rationale, for the question.
• Expand on your colleague’s posting by offering a new perspective or insight.
• Agree with a colleague and offer additional (new) supporting information for consideration.
• Disagree with a colleague by respectfully discussing and supporting a different perspective.

 

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