10 Apr Literature Review
The articles must be a literature review on the topic, not just contain a literature review. 2 Literature Review and 2 Meta-Analysis. I have attached the template and instructions.
The topic is how can schools in Douglas County improve test scores on the Georgia End of Course Test?
Literature Review Forms Instructions
This assignment requires you to submit four completed review forms in one Microsoft Word document in Blackboard. The template for this assignment is available in Blackboard and contains forms for all four separate article reviews. As you can see in the template, of these four review forms, you must complete two literature reviews and two meta-analyses that pertain to the capstone research topic.
For the literature reviews, be sure you select an article that is specifically designed to review the literature on a research topic and not merely an article that has a literature review within it. For example, if your capstone topic was on English Language Learners (ELLs) learning literacy in a mainstream classroom, you might choose the following relevant literature review:
Fitzgerald, J. (1995). English-as-a-second-language learners’ cognitive reading processes: A review of research in the United States. Review of Educational Research, 65, 145-190.
This article provides a broad and detailed overview of research that deals with how ELLs learn to read. It provides a thorough overview of literature within the field and directs the reader to pertinent research articles, reoccurring authors in the field, and repeating theories. It is clearly an article designed to review the literature on a given topic, not simply an article that has a literature review section. Please carefully note this distinction.
For the meta-analyses, the term “meta-analysis” will likely appear somewhere in the title. If the term meta-analysis is not in the article title, it is likely not one.
Begin by locating 4 articles: 2 literature reviews and 2 meta-analyses no more than 5 years old. All articles must be read and then a total of 4 completed “Literature Review” or “Meta-Analysis” forms (2 for each type of article) that are clear, concise, and at least 1 full page must be submitted as 1 document in Blackboard. You must complete each box on the forms with available information from the source. The boxes will expand as words are typed. You must also use complete sentences and follow current APA format.
This assignment is due by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of Module/Week 2.
