This is a research paper focusing the features of quality after school programs in the US. I want to look at how the features play a role in the program, whether it is positive or negative. Also, I want to look at how those features effect the student’s overall wellbeing (academically, physically, social-emotional development, etc.)
Template: Part 3 – Results, Issue Analyses, Conclusions, & Recommendations for Secondary Research Project (Culminating Experience)
[Please delete all directions in red as well as the instruction box below prior to submitting your Part 3 assignment]
Title
[Include your working title here.]
Introduction
[Include your working draft of the introduction here.]
Literature Review
[Include your working draft of the literature review here.]
Results & Issue Analyses
[Your research questions should help you organize this subsection. List your research questions first, and then report results from your short investigation – please remember that these results must align with the empirical works you reviewed and be properly cited in-text per APA. Then start explaining, describing, give reasons and state causes specific to your chosen topic relying on the empirical literature reviewed – in other words, engage in analyses of the issue. While analyzing, you should clearly identify causes and effects and then include your own analyses based on your expanded knowledge and practical experience. This is when you start writing what you have learned, what you feel about your topic, etc. As with prior sections, make sure to circle back to your overarching and research questions often in order to closely align your analyses with the topic.]
Conclusions & Recommendations
[For this subsection you are asked to reflect on and reexamine all of the components that you had developed as part of this secondary research project and, more importantly, your results and analyses section. More specifically, this subsection is designed to tie everything together and make sense of, at times, complex and convoluted concepts/issues. When thinking about recommendations rely on your own professional experience and expertise in Education and then tie those to what you had found in empirical literature – in other words, application of research and use-inspired research matters and, arguably, is more impactful (or could potentially be more impactful) than what we know as traditional research – grounding your thinking in this fashion will help with the construction/development of the last component of your culminating paper.
Also, do remember that your discussion of the issue(s), salient themes that you draw, and/or ideas may or may not closely align with the literature reviewed and other evidence found in your brief investigation, which is to be expected. That being said, however, you need to provide clear and educated reasons (by using and relying on evidence) in your conclusions as to why and how your interpretation of the issues(s) either aligns with or differs from what has been already studied and reported – this should be evidenced in your recommendations as well.]
References
[Include a list of references – please remember to closely adhere to APA.]
