SOCW 6301 Week 4 Assignment: Introduction to Research Proposals

SOCW 6301 Week 4 Assignment: Introduction to Research Proposals

SOCW 6301 Week 4 Assignment: Introduction to Research Proposals

Just because you thought of an interesting research question and have a desire to conduct research does not mean that your research will automatically be supported by faculty or funded by an organization. In order to gain stakeholder approval, you must submit a research proposal. Much like an outline of a paper or a treatment of a movie script, the research proposal contains several parts that begin with a research question and end with a literature review. For this Assignment, you compile a research proposal that includes a research problem, research question, and a literature review.

For this Assignment, choose between the case studies entitled “Social Work Research: Couple Counseling” and “Social Work Research: Using Multiple Assessments.” Consider how you might select among the issues presented to formulate a research proposal.

Be sure to consult the outline in Chapter 14 the Yegidis et al. text for content suggestions for the sections of a research proposal. As you review existing research studies, notice how the authors identify a problem, focus the research question, and summarize relevant literature. These can provide you with a model for your research proposal.

Submit a 5- to 6-page research proposal stating both a research problem and a broad research question (may be either qualitative or quantitative). Use 6–10 of the most relevant literature resources to support the need for the study, define concepts, and define variables relevant to the question. Include a literature review explaining what previous research has found in relation to your problem and question. The literature review should also include a description of methods used by previous researchers. Finally, be sure to explain how your proposed study addresses a gap in existing knowledge.

Learning Resources

Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

SOCW 6500 Week 10 Blog Assignment

SOCW 6500 Week 10 Blog Assignment

Refer to the topics covered in this week’s resources and incorporate them into your blog.

Post a blog post that includes:

•        A description of the principles of social work values and ethics
•        An explanation of how the principles of social work values and ethics might relate to your agency learning agreement throughout your field education experience

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SOCW 6500 Week 11 Assignment 2: Mid-Term Evaluation and Self-Assessment

Assignment 2: Mid-Term Evaluation and Self-Assessment

Prior to your field education experience, you completed an agency learning agreement that outlined potential goals and objectives related to social work practice skills that you sought to acquire during this course.

Like a contract, your agency learning agreement also provided your field instructor a set of criteria that would measure your social work practice skills. For this course, you will undergo a formal evaluation of your social work practice skills.

As you engage in future field education experiences, you will be able to refine and hone the development of those skills.

For this Assignment, review your agency learning agreement and the results of your midterm evaluation. Consider how your field education experience fulfilled the goals and objectives in your agency learning agreement. Reflect on what you would like to gain in future field education experiences.

Note: You should receive your midterm evaluation from your field instructor.

The Assignment (4–5 pages):

•        Describe whether you met or did not meet the goals/objectives in your agency learning agreement and include the results from your evaluation.
•        Compare your learning agreement and your evaluation to critically consider how the two are compatible and how you may approach completing the learning agreement differently next term.
•        Describe the social work practice skills you developed.
•        Describe potential areas where you might need improvement in relation to social work practice skills, ethics, or professionalism.
•        Explain how your next field education experience might address those areas.
•        Explain how participation in this course might inform your future field courses, what will you do the same, what will you do differently.
•        Be sure to submit the results of your evaluation to this assignment.

Learning Resources

Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.