Assignment: Research Materials

Assignment: Research Materials

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My Research question:

Research question: “Does self-disclosure of the therapist improve eating disorder treatment.”

Hypothesis: Self-disclosure of the therapist improves eating disorder treatment.

Instructions

For this assignment, you will submit a draft of all items and questionnaires that will be given to your participants in your study. The items and questions should be listed in the exact order that they will be given to participants. You may use questionnaires that you have designed, questionnaires used in previous research, or any combination thereof. Your instructor will provide feedback so that these materials may be improved before data collection.

Recognizing a student’s current level of functioning in writing comprehensive literature reviews is only important if this recognition can be used to move the student to a higher level of cognitive complexity. A paper might not fit completely into only one level of the Taxonomy because, as with all developmental models, the levels of the Taxonomy are not absolutes, and some overlapping is inevitable (Barrow, 1987). Nevertheless, papers can be generally categorized into a Taxonomy level based on the predominant skills and assumptions demonstrated.

Once a paper is placed at a certain level of the Taxonomy, the next step is to use the information collected to teach the student how to move to the next level. There is considerable support for the idea that the steps toward higher cognitive complexity should be incremental (Bloom et al., 1956; Kottke & Schuster, 1990; Kunen et al., 1981). Thus, if a student presents at the Knowledge level, the next step is to move the student to the Comprehension level. Care must be taken not to bypass that level in an effort to move the student to higher levels of complexity; each level must be understood and competency demonstrated before the next level is attempted.