Excerpts from the Action Research Case Project directions below for your review if necessary:
Part 2: Audience and Purpose (approximately 2 pages minimum)
The second section of your report should include information about the audience and purpose of your report. Please answer the following questions in addition to generating others you find helpful:
-Why are you doing an action research study on this case study? What is the importance?
-Who will read this report? Which stakeholders or other individuals? Joint and Collective Accounts?
-Where will the study take place? Agencies, organizations, homes?
-For what purpose will the report be used? To update on progress? Define an action research plan? Explain stakeholder experiences?
-For what purpose will the report be used? To update on progress? Define an action research plan? Explain stakeholder experiences?
Part 3: Literature Review (6-8 pages minimum)
– In the third section of your report, you should include information about the case study that would be helpful in working with this family. Please include information from:
-Primary sources, secondary sources, professional literature, office reports, practice literature, or other information as applicable. You must include at least 6 peer reviewed and/or scholarly articles in your paper. Please use the library at Post or the virtual library as necessary. Online sources are acceptable but Wikipedia is not allowed as it is not an empirically validated source. Empirically validated sources are scholarly journals or sources that are research based. Also, many websites are not scholarly sources so please use journal articles and books for this experience.
-Please provide information that supports the 1) need for an action research project for this case and 2) information to support any parts of the case study in regard to diagnosis or treatment models, etc.
-If your literature review involves statistical and numerical data, please remember to provide any relevant occurrences, comparisons, trends/history, central tendencies, distribution scores, or correlations necessary.
-Examples could be: What does the research say about single parent homes and violence rates? What does the research say about truancy and dropout rates? What does the research say about cultural factors in regard to spanking? Perhaps ask yourself a “question” about the case could help foster areas to include in the literature review.
