internation migration and social policy underdevelopement in the domincan republic
Posted: September 25th, 2015
write a paper that addresses each of the following areas:
- Introduction
- Briefly describe the topic of the research. Summarize the most pertinent past research.
- What additional information is the present research study supposed to add to the field?
- State the study’s hypothesis or hypotheses. If there are no hypotheses, what is the intent of the study?
- Method
- Who were the subjects? Were they selected in any specific manner or by any criteria? Were any subjects excluded from participation? If so, why?
- What is the setting of the study?
- Identify the type of design used (e.g., experimental, correlational, naturalistic, etc.) and summarize the design.
- List all of the variables. Indicate how they were operationally defined.
- If correlational, indicate which variables were to be associated with one another.
- If experimental, indicate which variables are independent and which are dependent.
- Confounds and Ethical Issues
- Indicate whether or not there were any biases present in the selection of subjects. If so, how could they have been avoided?
- Indicate whether or not there were any biases present during the running of the study (consider experimenter bias, subject bias, etc.).
- Were the subjects at any risk? If so, what safeguards did the researcher introduce into the study?
- Did you find any ethical issues that were not addressed adequately? If so, describe why you do not think they were adequate and how you would address them.
- Results
1 Explain how the results support or do not support the hypotheses.
- Discussion
- What major conclusions do the authors draw?
- How are their findings related to prior research?
- Do the conclusions follow logically from the results? Are there any unwarranted, hidden, assumptions of causality?
- Are the results trustworthy or not?
- Do the authors suggest any theoretical implications? If so, what? Discuss briefly whether or not you agree with their theoretical interpretations.
- Do the authors suggest any practical implications? If so, what?
- Do you think this research study was well executed? If not, what were some of the flaws? How might you overcome these flaws in future research?
- To what populations or settings would you be willing to extend or generalize the conclusions?
- Do the authors draw any conclusions you are unwilling to accept? If so, please explain.
- What future research do the authors suggest.