Writing a Successful Thesis or Dissertation: Tips and Strategies for Students in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Teaching Mindfulness to Middle School Students and Homeless Youth in School Classrooms

“…While some threats to internal validity are minimized due to the comparison group, the groups are still not equivalent, as randomized assignment to group was not possible. The threat of selection bias well as different environmental factors affecting assessments still remain (Lunenburg & Irby, 2008). For example, the class of participants not receiving treatment may experience environmental factors (testing on different days, different teacher influences)…”

“…Due to expected drop-outs or non-completed assessment forms during treatment, the sample size was further reduced by the end of the study. In a chapter on research methods, Lunenburg and Irby (2008) offer broad guidelines for sample sizes, indicating that for experimental or causal-comparative research, it is appropriate to use at least 30 participants. Therefore, this study's sample size is 4 minimally adequate for TG1 and questionable for TG2.…”

Evaluating Collaborative Technologies used by Academics: Case Study of Loughborogh University, UK

“…Qualitative research does not rely on numbers or statistics. Instead, qualitative research involves the analysis of unstructured information which could be from interviews, documents, emails, feed backs, telephone conversations, notes, photos and videos [7].…”

Theory in Health Promotion Research and Practice: Thinking outside the Box. Patricia Goodson. Boston, MA: Jones and Bartlett. 2010. 245, pp. $78.95.

“…Whereas explicit approaches provide systematic, transparent theoretical framework sections in the research report, which explicate the study's theory or conceptual model and describe operationalization of relevant constructs. Although custom permits the placement of theoretical frameworks within comprehensive reviews of the literature (Lunenburg and Irby 2008), we were struck by theoretical frameworks that were so implicit as to be diaphanous in some articles.…”