ECE 499 Senior Capstone

Assignment:

Literature Review- Part 2: Full Summary (Bullying)

For this week’s assignment, you will read and summarize significant research related to the approved topic for your capstone study. This review should be based on the resources from your annotated bibliography, as well as any new resources you have found since. Based on your assessment and reflection of the annotated bibliography list you provided last week, some of the references might not be useful; therefore, do not include those sources in your literature review for this week’s assignment. Only focus on legitimate and valuable leads that provide substance and benefits directly related to expanding and deepening your understanding of the approved topic that you want to investigate fully over the next seven weeks of this course.

The review should not be a disjointed collection of individual summaries, but instead it should be one single summary of all the research on the topic. Pick 5-7 of the best resources you have collected, either from your annotated bibliography or other research efforts, and read every one thoroughly. Then, write a holistic, seamless review of the research on your approved topic. In other words, what have others discovered about your topic? Literature reviews should comprise the following elements (http://guides.library.ucsc.edu/write-a-literature-review):

• An overview of the subject, issue or theory under consideration, along with the objectives of the literature review
• Division of works under review into categories (e.g. those in support of a particular position, those against, and those offering alternative theses entirely)
• Explanation of how each work is similar to and how it varies from the others
• Conclusions as to which pieces are best considered in their argument, are most convincing of their opinions, and make the greatest contribution to the understanding and development of their area of research

The literature review should be 1500-2000 words and should follow APA writing style. Clearly label the sections of your paper so that the instructor knows exactly what topics you are addressing in your discussion. The title page and references page do not count towards the minimum word amount. Only credible, peer-reviewed, scholarly resources should be used.Assignment:

Procedures and Evaluations Plan

Describe how you plan to use your time over the next month (Modules 4-7 of this course) to investigate and gather information related to your project. This could involve interviews, observations, surveys, phone calls, review of critical documents, etc. Explain what you will do to learn more about the problem you are trying to solve and how you plan on becoming an expert on both this topic and the setting in which the problem you want to solve exists. This usually involves learning everything you can about the people, culture, policies, procedures, demographics, programs, strengths, and weaknesses of the context.

Your plan should be 1000-1250 words in length, with the title page and reference page not counting towards the minimum word amount. You can include tables, but your plan should follow the APA writing style. Clearly label the sections of your paper so that the instructor knows exactly what topics you are addressing in your discussion.

Procedures
Over the next four weeks, you will be completing the Project Investigation phase of the capstone project. Therefore, you need to describe your plan for how you will spend your time over the next month, on a daily basis in order to achieve the goals you describe in your Topic Proposal in Module 1. Provide a step-by-step analysis of how you intend to meet your goals, including resources you will need, where you intend to find them, and an estimated timeline of how long each step will take. This is a very important section of your proposal. Describe in detail exactly what you will achieve and investigate in relation to your capstone topic for every day over the next four weeks. You literally need to label the days of your plan (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3… Day 28). Outline what deliverables will be targeted each week. A deliverable is a tangible product (e.g., locate and read the district’s Mission Statement, review the school’s Curriculum Map, evaluate the school’s Safety and Security Plan, etc.). This represents your work plan and schedule of deliverables. By knowing which deliverables, you need to collect, you will know what you need to gather and accomplish each week. The plan should be thoughtful, laser-focused, detailed, and scaffolded so that earlier pieces and deliverables support later pieces.

Evaluations
Explain how your project is to be evaluated. Is your educational organization going to evaluate it? How? Community evaluation? What specifically will make your project a success, both to you and to others? In relation to the evaluation of your project by outsiders, describe who, what, when, where and how.