Article to review: Mothers in Trouble: Coping With Actual or Pending Separation From Children due to Incarceration. By Katarzyna Celinska and Jane A. Siegel
The online version of this article can be found at:
http://tpj.sagepub.com/
The Prison Journal http://tpj.sagepub.com/content/90/4/447
The purpose of this paper is to showcase your understanding of how research methods and data serve to answer research question(s). Thus, your paper should focus on research design, methods and data of original research (if the article is a second data analysis).
You are asked to write a 1 page summary of one of the articles available in your Content folder.
The paper needs to address the following:
1. Research problem
2. Prior deficiencies as described in the article
3. Significance of the study
4. Research question(s) and/or hypothesis(-es)
5. Research worldview
6. Research inquiry (qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods)
7. Type of research design (e.g. experiment, ethnography etc.). Is it longitudinal or cross-sectional research?
8. Research instrument(s) (e.g. survey, interview) and its characteristics (e.g. researcher developed its own instrument versus using established instruments).
9. Dependent and independent variables. How they are operationalized.
10. Validity and reliability.
11. Sample: size, selection, type, and characteristics
12. Ethical issues before, during and after conducting the study
13. Why researcher(s) selected this particular research design and sample.
This paper can be written in an essay format or you can address each of those points in separate paragraphs or points. Provide all the details.
The paper needs to address (SEE GRADING RUBRIC)
1. Reference the article in APA = 3 POINTS
2. Research problem = 2 POINTS
3. Prior deficiency brought up by the researcher (just one) = 2 POINTS
4. Significance of the study = 2 POINTS
5. Research question or hypothesis = 3 POINTS
6. The worldview = 2 POINTS
7. Research inquiry (qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods) = 3 POINTS
8. Specific type of research design (e.g. experiment, ethnography etc.) = 2 POINTS
9. Use of specific research instruments (e.g. survey, interview) and characteristics of the instrument = 2 POINTS
10. Sample – size, how it was generated, type, characteristics = 2 POINTS
11. Explanation why the researcher(s) selected this particular research design and the sample = 2 POINTS